Weekly Tech Tips

  Dear Friends, I hope you are well. Weekly Shortcut If you use Google Classroom to grade and comment on students’ papers then I have a little shortcut for you that saves me a lot of time. Instead of highlighting a word or passage, then right clicking and selecting Add Comment, you see now that Docs now automatically brings up Add comment and Suggest edits. But EVEN faster is to use Control Shift arrow keys to highlight the word or words, then Control Alt (Control Option on a Mac) M to open the comment box and then don’t hit Enter, but Control Enter to save the comment. If you just hit Enter you just get a new line in the comment box. This way you can leave a comment without ever taking your fingers off the keyboard! I use it all the time Some EdTech Resources     Teaching Digitally Resource Guide from Nadine Gilkinson ( https://www.fttechtips.com/ ). Lots of really great stuff here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fFl9nq896ScyG_sUHaZ2OiKB0HUZLVlEGY8Z9Y...

  Dear Friends, I hope you were able to catch some of the Learning with Google event on 18 Feb. If not, don’t worry. I got you covered with the link to the archived video and a recap. Learning with Google 2021 (1 hr 40 min) Much of it resembles a long, but well-produced infomercial. There are several stories from around the world about how schools had to quickly go online, and how Google was there to help. The information about updates comes in at: Google Classroom 40:51 - 57:10 Recap:  New Addons (IXL, Kahoots, Nearpod, and more) New Doc Scanner for photo submissions Offline docs for lost or intermittent Internet connection Engagement Reports Improved Originality Reports Save progress on Forms (Quizzes) (coming soon) Auto citation (coming soon) Limit doc sharing Document Approvals You can learn more about the updates and how to use them here:   g.co/teachercenter   Google Meet 59:40 - 1:05:13 Recap:  In order to make Meets (Google’s video conferencing app) bet...