- Drive Search, Columns and More Google Updates
- Does Your Chromebook Have a Virus?
- The Apps Show: Back To School with Google EDU
- 12 Tips for Using Google Apps with Young Students
- How to Use Images as Answer Choices in Google Forms
- 12 Ways to use Google Cardboard in Your Class
- Slides Features Every Student (and Teacher) Can Use
- 14 Ways to Create Great Classroom Video with Screencastify
- Google Apps is Now G Suite
Drive Search, Columns and More Google Updates
From Gsuite Updates
Recent Google updates include the ability to search for files in Drive using Natural Language Processing, or what you and I would call plain English. You can now search the same way you speak. The search feature will also suggest spelling corrections, just like it does in a Google internet search.
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Other long awaited updates include being able to use columns in Docs (finally!), and being able to open, convert and edit non-Google files in Docs, Sheets and Slides. You'll be able to view or download the non-Google source file in its original format in the Revision History (File-See Revision History). Click here to read the entire post.
In an earlier September post, Google also added a feature to eliminate duplicate files for those who download a Google file to modify it on your computer, say in Word or Excel, then upload the new version again. Sometimes this process makes it difficult to tell what the current version of the file is. Now when you upload a file that has the same name as an existing file, you will be offered the choice to append the current file (earlier versions will be available in the Revision History) or keep it as a separate file.
Just this week it was announced that an update to Table of Contents in Docs now provides the option to show page numbers in addition to just the bookmark link. To show page numbers, just select the numbered option when inserting a table of contents from the Insert menu.
The answer is no, but this is is a great description of how you end up seeing those messages, and what NOT to do when you see them. Please always contact me before clicking on anything. If I'm not immediately available, try to sit tight, but never enter any personal or login information. As always, be very careful before clicking on any email or web site links. While the procedures will be slightly different for PCs, many of the same rules would apply.
Does Your Chromebook Have a Virus?
Does Your Chromebook Have a Virus? from The Electric Educator by John SowashThe answer is no, but this is is a great description of how you end up seeing those messages, and what NOT to do when you see them. Please always contact me before clicking on anything. If I'm not immediately available, try to sit tight, but never enter any personal or login information. As always, be very careful before clicking on any email or web site links. While the procedures will be slightly different for PCs, many of the same rules would apply.
12 Tips for Using Google Apps with Young Students
12 Tips for Using Google Apps with Young Students From Ditch that Textbook by Matt MillerThis expands on a previous post about using Google Apps for Littles, with 12 specific suggestions, such as focusing on icons, color coded indicators, terminology and more. There is also a section on Google Apps activities for littles to give you ideas.
The Apps Show: Back to School with Google EDU
In this episode from early September, see new features demonstrated such as Google Cast for Education, where students can share their screen with the projector via the teacher (the app is already installed for you), sending parents updates via Google Classroom, annotate anything via the Classroom mobile app, and Google Expeditions.How to Use Images as Answer Choices in Google Forms
From Practical Ed Tech for Teachers by Richard ByrneWe've always been able to insert images as questions in Google Forms, but now you can also insert images as answers choices to your questions. Watch and learn, all the while you'll be humming a tune from Sesame Street. (My apologies if that song has now become an earworm.)
12 Ways to use Google Cardboard in Your Class
12 Ways to use Google Cardboard in Your Class, from Ditch that Textbook by Matt MillerHere are some great ideas to use Google Cardboard in your class in an inexpensive way. This is very "doable". If you are interested in a used smartphone drive, here is a list of compatible phones. If you'd like to experience Cardboard, let me know. I have one, with some apps already loaded on my phone. I'll be happy to give you a test run.
Slides Features Every Student (and Teacher) Can Use
From Practical Ed Tech for Teachers by Richard Byrne
Here are some great features that will help you with your presentations. You can also share them with your students to help them with their presentations as well. They include changing your slide background for one or all slides, masking and cropping images, slide transitions, taking questions from audience members, and using the built in laser pointer.
Now that Techsmith no longer offers Snagit for Chrome (it's still available as paid for Windows or Mac software) I've been exploring Screencastify (which is free!) as a replacement for the video tutorials I create. Those video tutorials can be of anything on your screen or in view of your web cam, not just for tech tutorials. This blog post identifies not only ways you can use video in your classroom, but also why to use it. Sometimes it's so much easier to understand a video demonstration or explanation of something, than follow it in writing. - not to mention, your students will prefer it as well. If you would like students to have access to this app, please let me know and I'll push it out to them.
14 Ways to Create Great Classroom Video with Screencastify
14 Ways to Create Great Classroom Video with Screencastify from Ditch that Textbook with Matt MillerNow that Techsmith no longer offers Snagit for Chrome (it's still available as paid for Windows or Mac software) I've been exploring Screencastify (which is free!) as a replacement for the video tutorials I create. Those video tutorials can be of anything on your screen or in view of your web cam, not just for tech tutorials. This blog post identifies not only ways you can use video in your classroom, but also why to use it. Sometimes it's so much easier to understand a video demonstration or explanation of something, than follow it in writing. - not to mention, your students will prefer it as well. If you would like students to have access to this app, please let me know and I'll push it out to them.
Google Apps is Now G Suite
From Shake Up Learning by Kasey Bell
You are used to the Google Apps we use being referred to as, well, Google Apps, Google Apps for Education, or GAFE for short. Apparently Google has now renamed Google Apps to G Suite. Apparently it's just a name change, and all the same Google Apps are included in the suite. With the new name, however does come a couple improvements, one is Explore in Docs, Sheets and Slides, which makes it easier to use the Research feature, as well as to search for features in plain English. Read the full post for demonstrations of how Explore is used.
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