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10 Great Tools to Integrate with your Google Docs Since Google officially changed Google Docs name to Google Drive and a number of updates have been introduced to improve its overall performance. One very recent update is an increase of cloud storage capacity to 15GB usable across Gmail, Drive, and Google Plus. It is quite obvious that Google is trying to outsmart its immediate competitor Dropbox and I think Google is successful in its strategy so far. To make Google Drive stand out from the crowd, Google opened it to apps developers and allowed users to select from a wide variety of web apps to integrate into their Google Drive accounts. I have curated for you some interesting apps that are integrated into Google Drive and which you can install right from your Google Drive interface. This is how o install any of the apps below into your Google drive : Head over to your Google Drive, click on create, then click on " connect more apps", then type in its name in the search pane and click on " connect " 1- WeVideo 2- PicMonkey 4- Lucid Chart
8 Great Free Technology Posters to Hang in your Classroom So you want to start your next school year with a great new look for your classroom ?.A look that will be technology enhanced ? Well, we have suggestions for you: Technology posters . Posters are a great way to catch students attention and stimulate their learning drive . When used on the classroom wall for everyone to look at whenever they are at your class, then you can have better chances that students will grasp what those posters communicate to them. Yesterday as I was working on Teachers Definitive Guide To Google Search Skills I stumbled upon a great resource full of posters that teachers can use in their classroom. make sure you share with your colleagues 1- Google Scholar Here is PDF Format Here is Print Format 2- Google Book Search Here is PDF Format Here is Print Format 3- Google Search Tips Here is PDF Format Here is Print Format 4- Google Quiz Here is PDF Format Here is Print Format 5- Google Web Search Here is PDF Format Here is Print Format 6- Google Quiz Answers 7- Google Earth
10 Tips to Make Engaging Presentations in Google Drive August 26, 2015 Google Slides is a powerful application that allows you to create, edit and share presentations. There are a wide variety of interesting features provided by Slides which make it an ideal presentation tool to use in class with students. First is its integration with Google Drive allowing you to not only save your presentations to the cloud and access them across different devices but it also means that you can integrate content from other apps such as Sheets, Docs, and Drawings right into your slides. The collaborative features such as co-editing and synchronous collaboration are also great for students group work. Groups of students can work on the same presentation and be able to remotely edit each others’ slides and track revision history. Slides is also very easy to use and has a simple intuitive interface with no learning curve for students. 1- Import a theme Slides allows you to use external themes in your presentations. 2- Add transitions to your slides
How To Use Google Docs Offline Earlier this year Google enabled support for using Google Documents offline if you use Chrome and have the Google Drive Chrome app installed. When Google made that announcement I wrote some directions for enabling offline docs. Today, someone suggested sharing those directions again. So I've rewritten the directions and included some screen captures of the process. To enable Google Docs for offline use, sign into your account and click the sprocket icon in the upper-right corner. Then select "set up docs offline." Step 1: In your Google Drive account open the "more" menu. Step 2: Select "enable offline docs." A Note for Google Apps for Education Users If you are using Google Docs within a Google Apps for Education domain your domain administrator will have to enable the option for users to use Google Docs offline.
In schools, all you need is web Posted by Vidya Nagarajan, Product Manager, Chromebooks for Education (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog.) While students in the northern hemisphere say goodbye to each other and another school year, we’re in sunny San Diego meeting with thousands of educators and administrators at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. While on break from teaching, these folks are here to teach others how they’re bringing innovation into their classrooms—a lot of which centers around the web. While the web was developed well before today’s students were born, it’s come a long way even since a year ago. Today you can access the web on any device, use the web offline and take advantage of amazing graphics. It’s been really amazing to see how the web is impacting schools. Students at East Leyden High School work together on their Chromebooks.
10 Ways to Integrate Google Drawings in Your Teaching December 29, 2014 Google Drawings is a tool that is often overlooked by teachers. Being part of Google Drive, Drawings has some powerful features hat make it an ideal platform for creating educational posters, visuals, mind maps an many more. I have been using it to create several of the posters I shared here in the past and I find it really handy. Here is a step by step visual guide to help you learn how to use Drawings to create posters. I am also sharing with you this excellent visual from Shake Up Learning featuring more ideas on what you can do with Google Drawings. To access Google Drawings: Head over to your Google Drive, click on "New" then on "More" and select " Google Drawings". Teacher's Guide to Adding Images in Google Forms Here is how you can add an image to your Form To add an image to your form, click on the " add item" button displayed in your Google Forms and select " image" just as shown in the snapshot below. There are three ways you can embed an image in your Google form: 1- You can drag and drop it in the designated area or you can click on " choose and image" and upload it from your hard drive. 2- You can upload images from the web by pasting their URLs in the content bar provided there 3- You can embed a snapshot into your forms. When you upload your image you can then give it a title and type in the hover text. You can also control the placement of your image: either aligning it to the right, centering it, or aligning it to the left. If you want to change the image you selected ,you click on the " change" button right above the image and go through the process mentioned previously.
How To Unlock Google Drive's App Potential For Music, Image Editing, And More For the past seven years, the Obama White House has made it a priority to spread entrepreneurship around the world, culminating this past week with the U.S.-sponsored Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Silicon Valley. In an exclusive interview with Fast Company, conducted over email, Secretary of State John Kerry talks about how spreading entrepreneurship helps the U.S. achieve its foreign policy goals and which global hubs Americans should keep an eye on. Fast Company: One doesn’t usually associate "entrepreneurship" with the State Department and U.S. diplomacy: What’s the connection? Secretary Kerry: Economic policy and foreign policy are two sides of the same coin. How does spreading entrepreneurship overseas help the U.S. become more secure? Entrepreneurship is an engine for shared prosperity and hope that helps bring stability to people and nations around the globe. First, let me point to one of the outcomes from the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.
A Good Google Drive Tool to Enhance Students' Reading and Writing Skills November 18, 2014Read & Write for Google is a powerful tool that integrates with both the web and Google Drive to offer reading and writing help. It is also a good extension to support students with learning difficulties and reading disabilities. Some of the features of Read & Write include: Read aloud words, passages or entire documents with easy to follow colour highlightingExplain new terms using both text and picturesTranslate text into other languagesProvides suggestions for the current or next word you typeHelps you highlight text in documents or the web and collect for use in other documentsYou can also use it to simplify and summarize text on web pages.Read & Write for Google work on different platforms and devices including: Mac, PCs, and Chromebooks. It also works with web pages and common file types in Google Drive, including:Google Docs, PDF, and ePub. Watch the video below to learn more about Read & Write
10 Apps in 10 Minutes #chromebookedu | Kyle B Recently my colleague Jill and I worked with some teachers during a PD day on finding great Chrome apps & extensions for learning. We thought we’d kick off the time together by picking 10 of our most favorite (picking only 10 is hard!) and sharing them with teachers in 10 minutes. Here are the 10 we covered with a quick description as well as the link to the Chrome Web Store. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The great thing about installing apps in Chrome (whether on a Chromebook or not) is quick and easy. These are just a sample of the great educational apps available in the Chrome Web Store. Like this: Like Loading...