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Flow Chart Maker & Online Diagram Software. The Entire Guide to Google Search Features for Teachers and Students. The Entire Guide to Google Search Features for Teachers and Students is the third ebook I am publishing here exclusively for Educational Technology and Mobile Learning readers.

The Entire Guide to Google Search Features for Teachers and Students

After the success of 80 Alternatives to YouTube and The Comprehensive Guide to Google Free Tools in Education, I am expecting my readers to find this guide of the same importance if not more. Here is an excerpt from its introduction : "As educators Google is the backbone of our online activities. Think of how many times you use it to perform a search whenever you are looking for something. Besides using it for search queries , it is also used as a dictionary, unit and currency converter, calculator, zip code finder and many more. 20 Google Tools for Today’s Classrooms. 80 Ways To Use Google Forms In Your Classroom. 5 Tips For Finding A Scholarship 3.82K Views 0 Likes Nowadays, searching for high school scholarships should be easier than ever before—but is it? Searching for plainly “Scholarships” in search engines will return you about 83 million results.

That high number of result... 81 Ways Teachers Can Use Google Forms with Their Students. 19 Handy Google Tricks That You Weren’t Aware Of. After covering everything that Google Search has to offer, you can easily forge that search only forms one small part of the Google behemoth.

19 Handy Google Tricks That You Weren’t Aware Of

With so many different features and clients available, it’s very easy to use the basic features for each and leave it at that. However, if you delve a little deeper, there are many tricks hidden away that will help improve your experience. To help you out, here are a number of tips and tricks that you can use for four of Google’s more popular features: Gmail, Maps, Google Drive and Google News. 80+ Google Forms for the Classroom. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my weekly newsletter.

80+ Google Forms for the Classroom

Thanks for visiting! Google Forms is a great tool for the classroom and this post from 2008 has always proven popular on my blog. I hope you continue to be inspired by the ideas here. I have created example forms for each of the different topics, follow the links in each of the ten sections. 1 ) Get to know your class Use this form to gather some indication from your new class about their likes and dislikes, their favourite lessons or after school clubs they enjoy. 2 ) Emotion graph An emotion graph is a simple line graph comparing a range of happiness to sadness against different points (time) in a story or film.

Use a Google Form to gather the children’s responses to different parts of any type of linear narrative, written or visual. Adding a Favicon for your Google Site. I had previously made a post on how to add a Favicon to your website.

Adding a Favicon for your Google Site

In that post I linked back to a website that had directions for creating a favicon in a Google Site. Apparently that post no longer exists so I thought I would make the directions myself. A favicon is the icon you see in the tab of your web browser. You can see in the below screenshot that I have 3 tabs open. The gmail logo is visible in the first tab, that icon is a favicon. The reason to change the favicon on your Google Site is it makes it easier for you and students to navigate multiple tabs. Step 1: Create an image You can use any editor you want. Step 2: Go to You will want to upload your image to a favicon creator.

No need to register or login. Click on “Choose File” and upload your image file. Once you’ve uploaded the file scroll down a little to the preview box. Step 3: Click on the blue share button on your Google Site Step 4: Click on “Attachments” on the left hand side. 20 Google Docs Secrets for busy teachers and students. — Edgalaxy. Google Apps. Google Plus Tips and How To's - Google+