One of the features I love about Gmail is the ability to search my emails. While I will occasionally use labels to organize some emails, mostly this is unnecessary since I can use the search bar at the top. While creating a presentation for using Gmail I thought it might be handy for the participants…
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Make a multiplication table in less than 35 seconds
This will work in any spreadsheet, but I am going to use Google Spreadsheet. Click on the corner of your Google spreadsheet where the rows and columns come together Hold cursor between any two columns (between letters) and resize. Hold cursor between any two rows (between numbers) and resize. You want to make square boxes…
Google Spreadsheet: Reference an External Spreadsheet
Last school year I had all my students turn in their work to a Google Form. This allowed me to go paperless. They posted all of their work to a WordPress blog, which gave them a student portfolio, but would turn in the link to the Google Form. What I loved about this system is…
How to Edit a Google Form
Note: Google Forms has undergone a MASSIVE update. Please see newer blog posts on Google Forms. My sister is having her wedding reception soon and I helped her to create a Google Form to collect RSVP’s. She noticed a grammatical typo and was baffled on how to edit the form once it had already been…
Uploading Images to the Internet
One way to get your images onto the internet is to use a site such as flickr or photobucket. Both are fine, but I want a faster way to upload images. My trick is to use a Google Site that I have. Google Sites allows me to upload images. Either I will insert the image…
Which group member did all the work?
Announce a group work project to your class and you’re sure to get a few groans. We have all been in a group and usually it is one person who does most of the work. As a teacher, how do you ensure that work is done equally? There is no guarantee, but here are some…
Creative Commons on YouTube
When you upload a video to YouTube the default setting is “Standard YouTube License” but you actually can choose “Creative Commons” Why Creative Commons? Unless you are trying to make money off of your content, I would argue why not. It is nice to share. You can tell if your video is set to creative…
Group Work
At a training I was participating in a scenario was proposed to the group at whole. The group was broken up into small groups with their own focus and to contribute a portion of the solution that our focus could address. As I am watching the group recorder write on a small poster our ideas…
Google Insert Image by Snapshot
A new feature of Google Docs I’ve been utilizing this week is the ability to insert an image by snapshot. When editing a text document under the insert menu, insert image. Instead of choosing to upload an image on your computer you can choose the next option to “Take a snapshot.” This will engage…
Try student presentations like this
I had lunch today with someone from the local city college and we were thinking of ways that college professors might be more productive with Google. Here is one of our ideas: Create Google Presentation templates (like PowerPoint) and allow students to create their presentations on the teachers starters. This allows the teacher to already…
Create a Document from an Email
How many times have you gotten an email that you will want to keep a record of, to create a project out of, or want better collaboration communication with? Usually I copy and paste the email into a Google doc, but gmail will actually do this for you! When you have your email open and…
Whipping out QR Codes for conference evaluation
I am in charge of the CVCUE Spring 2012 conference committee. So many things to manage. In the past when we did evaluations we had participants fill out a form on paper (I know, you’re thinking what is this “paper” that you speak of). This required someone to manually type up the evaluations (students I…
Google Makes Me Talk to Myself
I am doing some academic writing on a Google doc and realized that I was making a significant amount of comments within the document. (Insert->Comment). The comments were pondering how I might develop that thought, or move the writing to another section, or refer back to an author. Who am I saying these comments to?…
Table of Contents for your Google Collections
If you are interested in knowing how to create a table of contents for your Google docs here is a tutorial file I made: goo.gl/k4MJ3 The table of contents is a great way to reference your key parts of a document, but what about for a folder for your Google Docs? I create a folder that…
Google Voice for Deaf Students
I was doing some brainstorming with some teachers of deaf students. I was having my college students use Google Voice as a quick and dirty podcasting method (I’ll save that for another blog). Obviously this will not work for deaf students, it is an auditory tool. But can Google Voice be a tool for teaching…
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