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📱 Remote control the computer in your classroom – wirelessly #YouTube
Freedom to move about the room and teach! I’m not a big fan of being stuck at the front of the room with the computer or interactive whiteboard. I demonstrate how I use a mobile device, in this case a tablet, to control the computer plugged in to the projector. With Chrome Remote Desktop you…
Google is shutting down its goo.gl URL shortening service
Google announced last week that it is shutting down the goo.gl URL shortening service. A URL shortening services is an online service that takes long, unwieldy addresses and creates a new, shorter address that it is easier to share. I’ve covered the Chrome extension before, which made it very easy to use. The timeline for…
Preview Google Docs/Slides/Sheets documents with this URL trick
Google offers all sorts of neat little tricks with the URL of a Google Drive document, and the /preview trick is one of the best. I’m going to demonstrate the /preview trick with Google Slides, since that’s when it’s most noticeable. For my classes, I have prepared lessons in Google Slides. This is a pretty…
ⓔ Use Google Photos for managing your classroom photos
Being an Mac school, we have use iPhoto (now Photos) a lot to manage all of the photos collected during the school year. But, now that Google offers unlimited storage of photos (it resizes the photos to 2048×2048 for non-Google Apps for Education Users) it makes sense to move photo storage to Google Photos. Getting…
Create highlights and annotate videos with TAGX
Source: TAGX TAGX is a free online tool that allows you to highlight and annotate videos from sources such as YouTube, Vimeo, or other videos available online. Once you’ve entered the link to a video, you can play through the video, adding your own commentary, highlights or tags. This is a great way to offer…