Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
Paste Special with Control Shift V When you copy and paste off the internet… it messes up your document. It pastes the formatting from the internet and doesn’t match what you had. Strip Formatting Normally you paste with Control V. Try also holding down the SHIFT key with that. This will match your destination formatting….
Essential Skill Undo with Control Z If you do not already know Control Z today is about to be a great day that will save you hours of future heartache. On your keyboard Control Z (or Command Z on a Mac) will UNDO. Wipeout Email Have you ever been typing whole paragraphs and then suddenly……
Use Control T and Control W I was showing a couple of teachers from my kids school some Google things and one asked me “How did you get that tab open?” KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS! Learning keyboard shortcuts helps us to blast through our digital teacher tasks faster. Control T Control T opens a new tab. I’m…
Keyboard Shortcut – Control A to Select All Keyboard shortcuts greatly improve your productivity when using the computer. I recommend learning one a week. Put your shortcut on a post it on your computer and make an effort to use it as often as possible until it becomes muscle memory. What prompted me to write this…
Hyperlinking text makes your document easier to read and navigate.Here is how to Hyperlink Text in Google Docs
Create a Google Doc in Google Drive A shortcut for creating a Google Doc is to use Shift T in Google Drive. Google Drive Start with drive.google.comĀ or use the apps switcher (3 dot grid waffle) to choose Drive. Compose Button Instead of using the Compose button to create a Google Doc, try the keyboard shortcut!…
Hold Down the Control Key It is helpful to get in the habit of holding down the Control key (Command on a Mac) when clicking on links. This forces the link to open in a new tab so you do not lose the page you are on.Ā Google Search When you Google Search something very…
Give Faster Feedback with Keyboard Shortcuts When using Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Drawings you can insert feedback comments by using the keyboard shortcut Control Alt M. (Command Option M on a Mac.) This is much faster than other methods to insert feedback comments, and as teachers, we need every second we can get. Control…
In Google Drive the documents are shown either as a list or as a grid of images.
Press N to Compose a Tweet I love keyboard shortcuts. They make me much more efficient when using the computer. Twitter has a few keyboard shortcuts that can be very helpful. N – New Tweet When using twitter.com or even tweetdeck.com you can press N to start a new tweet. Control EnterĀ – Send After pressing…
Use Control Z/Undo Liberally Do not be afraid! Try it! You can UNDO! Master the keyboard shortcut Control Z (Command Z on a Mac). Try a new font, do not like it, Control Z. Accidentally type something in a spreadsheet and it deletes what you had in the cell, Control Z. Keep On Control Z…
Try These 5 Keyboard Shortcuts I recommend you learn one keyboard shortcut a week. Here are 5 lesser known shortcuts to get you through the next 5 weeks. Chromebook Shortcuts Control Shift Windows Switcher key: Take a partial screenshot. Hold down the Ctrl key and the Shift key. Press the key which looks like a…
One Space After the Period Two spaces are for typewriters. If we are not using typewriters then two spaces are outdated and obsolete. We are educators, should we be teaching kids outdated and obsolete practices just because we still do them? I’m 41, I owned a typewriter and learned to put 2 spaces after the…
Hold Down the Control Key Here is a handy digital literacy tip, hold down the Control key when you click on a link. (Command key on a Mac). This will open the link in a new tab. I am pretty much in this habit of holding down the Control key so that I don’t lose…
Duplicate with Control D Rather than using Control C to copy and Control V to paste, try Control D to duplicate! Control D duplicates objects when drawing, for example in Google Slides or Google Drawing. If you are using Insert->Drawing into Google Docs, you can duplicate shapes in there as well. In Google Slides you…
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