100+ Google Tricks for Teachers It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it. Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time. Search Tricks These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away. Convert units. Google Specifically for Education From Google Scholar that returns only results from scholarly literature to learning more about computer science, these Google items will help you at school. Google Scholar. Google Docs 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Gmail 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Google Calendar 44.
Use Google Forms to create a survey Google Forms provide a fast way to create an online survey, with responses collected in an online spreadsheet. Create your survey and invite respondents by email. People answer your questions from almost any web browser - including mobile smartphone and tablet browsers. You view each response in a single row of a spreadsheet, with each question shown in a column. And Google Forms is free. Forms A Google Form is a great way to gather information related to meetings or conferences, for example. However, Google Forms is not right for every situation. You can create a Google Form quickly: Google released a "one click" Chrome Web Store app to create a Google Form on October 23, 2013. Figure A Google Forms in the Chrome Web Store Create a simple survey form To get started, let's assume you have four things: a Google account with Google Drive enabled, the Chrome browser, and the Google "one click" Forms web app installed. 1. Figure B Google Forms web app icon 2. Figure C New Google Form page 3. 4. 5.
Google Tools for the College Student - Tips and Tricks for University Student Write your papers, keep in touch with your family, and find the local pizza joints, all for free. Here are the best tools from Google to help you with your college life. Whether you have your own computer or you're stuck using the computer labs, Google has a lot of tools that will help you get the most out of college, academically and socially. 1. Google Docs is Google's online word processor. Import and export in Microsoft Word format, and save your files as Adobe PDFs for emailing to your instructor. 2. Want to keep in touch with your friends and family while you're away? If you've got a popular blog, you might even insert some Adsense Ads for extra spending money. 3. Google Spreadsheets lets you make spreadsheets that can be imported and exported from Excel. You could even use it to keep the peace with your roommates and track who's turn it is to vacuum this week. 4. Rather than relying on the campus email system, why not give your friends and families your Gmail address? 5. 6. 7. 8.
Google for Educators - Resources for using Google in school I am a huge proponent and user of Google tools, both for myself and in my classroom. Here are some great resources for educators who want to learn more about using Google's many tools in their classroom. Last week, Kathy Schrock posted a great interactive image of Google tools listed by Bloom's taxonomy levels. It is a great way to search for Google tools as you work to create activities for your students. Google for Educators Mind Map is an interesting site that has resources for educators for using Google tools in the classroom. Google For Educators - Google's official page for educators. Google Accessibility - Google's page with tips, links and resources for using accessibility features in Google tools. Google List of Tools - this page has a listing of the major Google tools available. Google Tools for Schools - tutorials, links, resources, and tips on using Google tools in the classroom Google Tutor - how-to's, tech tips, and more on Google tools
101 Google tips, tricks and hacks: 71. Click "Trends" to see the sites you visit most, the terms you enter most often and links you've clicked on! 72. Personalised Search also includes a bookmark facility – which enables you to save bookmarks online and access them from anywhere. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. Running the Google Chrome browser? 9 best hidden Google Chrome tips and tricks | The Daily Dot If you're a Chrome user, you're in good company. Google's beta release of Chrome 50 last month comes as the world's most popular Web browser is nearing its eighth anniversary. At 1 billion monthly active users, it's no surprise that Chrome is the browser of choice for snake people, Donald Drumpf supporters, and people who prefer poop emoji to actual news. Here are some things you didn't know Chrome could do. 1) Translate virtually anything on the Internet Chrome Upon stumbling on a non-English website, Chrome will automatically ask if you want to translate it into English. To change your browser's translate settings, click on "Menu" (the three horizontal bars on the upper right hand of the browser). To change your browser's language, click on "Menu." 2) Download Flash video You can download any Flash video you find online with your Chrome browser's developer tool or by downloading one of many Flash video extensions. 3) Enable guest browsing 4) Use your browser as a notepad 8) Edit photos
Google Timelapse lets you see how any location on Earth has changed in 32 years It might not seem like such a long time, but in past three decades, Earth has changed in immeasurable ways, with cities rising, glaciers falling, and unprecedented disasters reshaping the landscape forever. With 5 million satellite images taken from 1984 to 2016, Google Earth’s new Timelapse update allows you to go anywhere on the planet, and see a perfect timelapse of the shifting landscape, whether you want to see how your home has fared, or what the hell happened to the Aral Sea. "Using Google Earth Engine, we sifted through about 3 quadrillion pixels - that's 3 followed by 15 zeroes - from more than 5,000,000 satellite images," Chris Herwig, program manager for the Google Earth Engine, writes in a blog post. "For this latest update, we had access to more images from the past, thanks to the Landsat Global Archive Consolidation Program, and fresh images from two new satellites, Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2." Here's Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada:
How to Get Around Sites That Block Your Right-Clicks Though not quite annoying as pop-up browser ads, sites that block you from right-clicking are still found on the Web. These sites typically contain original images or perhaps some text that the site owner doesn’t want you to copy for whatever reason. Let's Put A Stop To Pop-Up Browser Ads Once And For All! However, they’re not really protecting any content on their site by doing this, as Stack Overflow users have explained. If you don’t immediately leave the next time you encounter a site like this, here’s a way for you to combat it! The JavaScript code to re-enable right clicking is as follows: What is JavaScript, And Can the Internet Exist Without It? javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null); You’ll want to create a useful browser bookmarklet for this command so it’s accessible right away without you having to remember the code. If you don’t want to drag and drop, you can also click on your bookmarks bar, add a bookmark (Add page in Chrome) and make sure the URL is the code above.
Displaying Events from Multiple Google Calendars in a Single Embedded Calendar View Of all the things Google Calendar is good for, producing a single embedded calendar from a set of Google Calendars has not been one of them… [Cue sideaways glance] Or so I thought… In a flurry of activity earlier today, the Reverend posted this: while I was admiring the new link to UMW Blogs on the UMW homepage, I clicked on the Events link, and to my surprise it was a Google calendar. Wow! Jim went on: “I did a search for the term “UMW” through Google’s public calendars and found over 40” and the describes subscribing to the calendars, looking at them in the single aggregated view within Google Calendar itself, before hitting a problem: “Google won’t given me an embed code for the aggregation of all of the public calendars I subscribed to around UMW” Err… rewind one moment… “When looking at the source code, I released it was actually an aggregation of 10 different Google Calendars“…? This is what Jim saw but didn’t see: Got it yet? And then select the calendars you want to include: Simple:-)
Digital Dementia – Are Google Search and the Web Getting Alzheimer’s? According to the Alzheimer’s Society, Alzheimer’s disease – one of the most common forms of dementia – memory lapses tend to be one of the first symptoms sufferers become aware of along with “difficulty recalling recent events and learning new information”. One of the things I have been aware of for some time but only started trying to pay more attention to recently, is how Google search increasingly responds to many of my tech related web queries with results that are dated 2013 and 2014. In addition, the majority of traffic to my blog is directed to a few posts that are themselves several years old, and that were shared – through blog links and links from other public websites at the time they were posted. (I also note that Google web search is increasingly paranoid. If I run search limited queries, for example using the site: or inurl: or filetype: search limits, it often interrupts the search with a dialog asking if I am a robot.) Like this: Like Loading...