Weekly Tech Tips

  Dear Friends! What wonderful weather we're having now. I hope you are enjoying it. Unfortunately I have been a little under it the past couple of days which is why this week’s Tech Tips is a little late to your inbox.  Last week we got Jamboard cleared, which I think is a really great tool for all ages. It is even showing up in my matrix now: If it is not in your matrix yet try accessing it here: https://jamboard.google.com/ and once you use it a while it has a way of magically appearing in your matrix, or you could just bookmark it. This shared whiteboard allows you to “invite” your students up to the board remotely. Weekly Tech Tips I have been waiting for this for what seems like years and I am so happy that it is finally working. I am talking about COLLAPSABLE TAB GROUPS for the Chrome browser. Google has been promising this for months and I finally got it to work on all my machines (Chromebook, PC, and Mac) last week. First, this is for the Google Chrome Browser only. I...

  Dear Friends! I’ll be keeping it short again this week as we are not getting any less busy. I really feel like that as we continue online and blended, technology takes on new meaning and importance. We literally cannot do our jobs without technology anymore. This week a look at a few ways to make sure you get relevant information without getting swamped in the process and ways to maybe stay in touch with each other. Weekly Tech Tips If you are in Secondary and teach grades 8, 9, or 10 you would have received a whole bunch of emails over the last 2 weeks about joining a group followed by several concerning a certain student’s attendance. If you want to change how you receive emails from these groups you can go to your Groups here: https://groups.google.com/my-groups and then change the settings for your subscription: This can help you keep your inbox in control while staying up to date on important information. On a side note, while looking through these groups I noticed that in...

  Dear Friends! I’ll be keeping it short this week as we are all getting busier by the day. With the recent Zoom and internet outages I’d like to make sure everyone is aware of some alternatives and workarounds in case they happen again. Weekly Tech Tips You can continue to work on Google Docs, Sheets and Slides even when offline, but you have to install Google Docs Offline . Here is the Google Help page on the topic. It is pretty straightforward, but I do have to warn you that if you set it up while in one Google account, you will have to always use that Google account in order to work offline. So choose which account you install and sign up on accordingly. If you do not already have it installed, I also recommend Google Backup and Sync . This simply allows you to keep a local copy of specific files or folders on your computer's hard drive as well as in the cloud (Google Drive). When changes are made on either, they will sync so that you always have the same thing in both places....