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The 32 Best Google Docs Add-ons in 2017

The 32 Best Google Docs Add-ons in 2017
A word processor requires very little—a blank page, typography tools, and a way to save, print, or share your finished documents. The earliest word processors like Word for DOS and WordPerfect offered little more than that. An update here, a new version there, and 30+ years later, word processors offer an embarrassment of riches with more tools than can fit in Word's tabbed toolbars. Google Docs took a simpler road, with a simple collection of core document formatting features bundled with its world-class collaboration tools. That's where add-ons come in. Here are the Google Docs add-ons we think are the best. How to Use Google Docs Add-ons First, though, you need to know your way around the Google Docs Add-ons store. Find something you want to try? Your add-ons will find a new home in the Add-ons menu. For instance, the translation add-ons we tested all can only translate the text you've selected. Decide you need to clean up Google Docs and get rid of add-ons you no longer use? Styles Related:  On-Line ToolsExtension/Apps-General

The 11 Best Social Media Management Tools in 2017 Managing your brand's social media is a full-time job all by itself. Not only do you have to come up with solid content and strategy, but you need to update every major social network consistently. From Facebook to Twitter, Instagram to LinkedIn, your customers expect your content wherever they log on. Your customers are talking about your brand too; everything from feedback and praise to support requests and complaints are being Tweeted and Liked. These updates can have a real impact on your brand’s credibility and reputation, especially if your team isn’t actively monitoring and responding to them. So, how do you do this without manually loading Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn’s websites every single day? What’s a Social Media Management App? Social media management apps are a one-stop-shop for updating and monitoring your social media accounts together. These apps also include tools you won't find on social networks’ websites. Here's what makes each of them unique: Mobile Version: iOS

Getting Good with Google This website is being built by Allanah King to support learning about all the clever things that you can do with Google. She is a MOE accredited facilitator who can come to your school and support your students and teachers in their use of digital technologies. Allanah is a Google Certified Teacher, class of 2013 and Google Education Trainer 2014 Note to self: Use keyboard shortcuts to change the selected text's size in a Google Suite document. Decrease: Control/Command + Shift + < Increase: Control/Command + Shift + > 2. 3. 4. Here is a useful set of help articles around using all things Google. Here is a great video that explains the SAMR model as it might relate to Google Docs. Video of how teachers at Magee Elementary School use Google Apps to personalise learning in their classes. Creative Ways to Use Google Applications Google Presentation Point England School in Auckland share their use of Google Applications and Chromebooks. Point England Google Video

Manage Android apps on Chrome (beta) - Chrome for business and education Help Vous pouvez spécifier le mode d'installation disponible pour chacune de vos applications approuvées. Créez un groupe rassemblant les applications dont vous laissez le choix de l'installation à l'utilisateur. Créez ensuite un autre groupe qui contient les applications destinées à être installées automatiquement sur l'appareil des membres de l'unité organisationnelle concernée. Vous pouvez également autoriser les utilisateurs à installer n'importe quelle application à partir de la plate-forme Google Play d'entreprise. Installer d'office des applications approuvées Parmi les applications approuvées de la plate-forme Google Play d'entreprise, sélectionnez celles que vous voulez installer automatiquement pour tous les membres de l'unité organisationnelle de votre choix. Remarque : Cette règle est indépendante de toute autre règle concernant le téléphone ou la tablette Android mise en place avec un fournisseur EMM tiers. Autoriser l'installation d'applications approuvées

The 17 Best Online Form Builder Apps for Every Task - The Ultimate Guide to Forms and Surveys There are only so many ways to build an online form. As a result, most form apps offer the same set of features: a variety of question and field options, a drag-and-drop editor, and basic themes and templates. Most save your results in a spreadsheet-like report and alert you via email when you receive new responses. With all these similarities, how do you choose the right app for your business? Does the right app even matter? For most companies, it does matter, just not in as broad of strokes as you might anticipate. To save you time, we tested more than 30 online form builders to pinpoint those important differences and help you choose the right one. If you're using forms to collect leads, take a look at how you can automate the process of getting form responses into your other apps to nurture and manage your leads. The 9 best online form builder apps What makes a great online form builder? The way form builders work is relatively straightforward. Google Forms (Web) Microsoft Forms (Web)

Tabletek az osztályban Sign in - Google Accounts One account. All of Google. Sign in with your Google Account Find my account Forgot password? Sign in with a different account Create account One Google Account for everything Google How to Sync Your Entire iTunes Library to Spotify's New "My Music" Section « Digiwonk :: Gadget Hacks How to Sync Your Entire iTunes Library to Spotify's New "My Music" Section Included in Spotify's new darker, slimmed down redesign is a much needed My Music section, which consolidates all of your starred music, local files, and playlists into a personal collection of songs, albums, and artists, similar to how iTunes organizes your music. This makes me wonder... Can you finally dump iTunes completely and just use Spotify? While the My Music section makes browsing a large personal collection of music easier with familiar organization, it doesn't automatically pull in and sync your iTunes music library. Step 1Download iCloud Music If your music is stored in iCloud, make sure to download it onto your computer. Step 2Open Spotify & Go to Local Files Now that your iCloud music is downloaded onto your computer, open Spotify, click on Spotify in your computer's menu bar, choose Preferences and un-check Music and Downloads, and keep only iTunes checked. Step 3Transfer Local Files Over to Your Music

A tanár appserege Mutasd az okostelefonodon levő alkalmazásokat és megmondom, ki vagy! Kis túlzással ez a helyzet, hiszen a telefon vagy táblagép lényegét az appok (alkalmazások) adják. Mivel több szem többet lát, ezért megkérdeztem több szemet is arról, hogy pedagógusként milyen alkalmazásokat tartanak a telefonjukon (a táblagéppel ugyanez a helyzet). Megesik, hogy egy pedagógus új okostelefont kap és felmerül benne, hogy miként népesítse be eszközét, melyek a legfontosabb alkalmazások. Mire van szükség egy tanári okostelefonon? Miként egy autóban is, bizonyos dolgok nélkülözhetetlenek, mások pedig opcionálisak. Egy pedagógus sz ámára mindenképp ajánlott egy-két felhőalapú tárolóhely, hogy bárhol hozzáférjünk fontos dolgainkhoz és ezzel egyúttal a pendrájvtól is elbúcsúzhatunk (úgyis elveszítjük, otthon hagyjuk, szétesik, kimegy a divatból stb.) A közösségi média is népszerű, már csak a szakmai tájékozódás okán is (pl. Tetszett a bejegyzés? Tetszik Betöltés... Kapcsolódó bejegyzések

Create Interactive Diagram Quizzes in Formative Creating a diagram-based quiz or quiz question is something that you could find yourself doing in almost every content area. Whether it’s a timeline in a history class, a cell diagram in a science class, or a playing field illustration in physical education there are plenty of uses for interactive diagram-based quizzes. Create a diagram in Google Drawings then use that diagram in Formative to create an interactive quiz. In the following video I demonstrate how to create a diagram-based quiz in Formative. This video shows you how to create a mind map or other diagram in Google Drawings. Here are the week’s most popular posts from FreeTech4Teachers.com: 1. Half of the seats for the Practical Ed Tech Chromebook Camp have been claimed.

The Best Invoicing Software: 16 Apps to Get Paid for Your Work Invoicing should be the easiest part. You've already found clients, put in the hours, and done the job. It's time to get paid—and that should be simple. It's so often not. Creating and sending an invoice can be such a hurdle, an inelegant dance of copy and paste. We spent over twelve hours testing over thirty popular invoicing tools, and found the 16 best apps to create invoices. What Makes a Great Invoicing App? If you create invoices often, an invoicing app will save you a ton of time compared to a word processor Invoicing apps are far faster to use than most document and spreadsheet apps—they use forms to help you fill out details like your product and customer information. They also let you store product and customer info. Then, making an invoice takes only a few clicks, with the details filled in automatically. It's a far simpler way to bill your clients and should relieve the headache of doing this important yet tedious task. Of those, three apps stood out in particular. Ronin (Web)

My Ten Favorite ClassTools Templates There are dozens of great game builders, writing templates, and handy classroom tools on Classtools.net. I've tried nearly all of them over the years. My ten favorite Classtools tools are featured below. The Dustbin game is an activity in which students sort vocabulary terms. Playing a Dustbin game can be a good way for your students to review key vocabulary terms. In a science classroom you could create a game in which students sort animal names into the categories of mammal, reptile, fish, and bird. The ClassTools Hexagons Generator lets you create an online hexagonal learning activity to share with your students. The Diamond 9 template has students write text into nine boxes that form a diamond shape. The Jigsaw template has students write keywords or phrases into jigsaw pieces. The ClassTools Source Analyser provides students with a simple template that can help them analyze the resources that they want to use in research papers and presentations.

10 add-ons to Google Classroom you MUST try Google Classroom’s basic features are powerful. Take it to the next level with some add-ons created just for teachers and students. The basic functions of Google Drive and Google Classroom are only the starting point for the innovative and creative uses one can use in the classroom. Alice Keeler, my co-author in our upcoming book Ditch That Homework, proves that again and again. Alice is one of the only people I know personally who codes for fun. It’s like Google Sheets bows down on one knee to this woman and does her bidding. Alice has created dozens of pre-created templates, add-ons, scripts, extensions — you name it, she’s created them. Two of these are Google Chrome extensions — little programs you install in your Chrome web browser that will perform certain tasks. But most are scripts/add-ons she wrote to run inside Google Sheets or other Google tools. Here are 10 of them I like the most. 1. With DriveSlides, you can: 2. 3. How to use it: Add your roster to the roster column. 4. 5.

Create organisational clarity using initiative mapping How to map and visualise who’s responsible for what, who’s helping who and how an overall vision breaks down into the smaller ideas which contribute to it. This Maptio guide is an interpretation of Charles Davies’ original work on initiative mapping and Peter Koenig’s source principles. It wouldn’t have been possible without their ideas and I recommend you also read their work. Version 1.0. In this guide we’ll cover: the lens which initiative mapping uses to explore creative endeavours;what initiative mapping is and is not;essential principles for good initiative mapping;how to create an initiative map;tips to make it easier and more effective;how to work with an initiative map once it’s clear. Why initiative mapping? The purpose of initiative mapping is to get collaboration flowing much more smoothly and naturally. If you work in a company or other organisation and you want things to be more autonomous, aligned, accountable and agile then initiative mapping will help a great deal. 1. 2. 3.

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