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Weekly Tech Tips 25 April 2021

  Dear Friends, I was really hoping to make it to the end of the year without having to open up Zoom again, but alas, it was not meant to be. If you haven’t opened up Zoom in a while there have been a couple of neat additions in the latest updates. I’ll show you below in this week’s…… WEEKLY TECH TIPS !!! but first ... Weekly Shortcuts  This is an odd but potentially useful little shortcut that lets you zip back up to the search box while conducting searches. When you're looking at search results within a Google app on a computer, you can use the forward slash key (/) to jump back up to the box at the top of the page and start searching for something new. You kind of have to see  it or try it to see what I mean and see how useful it could be. According to Mr. Raphael at Android Intelligence though, “you've been able to accomplish the same thing for ages by hitting Ctrl-L and then typing your search query directly into Chrome's address bar” This works no matter what kin...

Weekly Tech Tips 11 April 2021

  Dear Friends, Happy Sunday. Only two months left. I find that these last weeks always fly by even faster than the usual hectic pace of life. There is a lot of work to be done as we wrap up the year. I hope you find something handy in this week's edition of … Weekly Tech Tips Lately I have been starting off this newsletter with a shortcut. I do not have a keyboard shortcut for you today, but instead a Chrome extension that saves a lot of time and steps when it comes to clipping, annotating, and sharing screenshots with others. Even on a Mac this is a multistep process that can require taking the screenshot, saving it, opening it, editing it, saving it again and then attaching it to an email or message. Snipply was supposedly created by Google engineers for internal use and has been made public recently. It is a very helpful lightweight extension for quickly sharing screenshots. Thanks go to Mr Raphael from Android Intelligence for this good news. Install the extension onto Chr...

Weekly Tech Tips 4 April 2021

  Dear Friends, Happy Easter! A real quick Weekly Tech Tips this week I have archived all the WeeklyTech Tips on a Google Blog here: https://drwsweeklytechtips.blogspot.com/ Now you can hunt down any tips you may have missed or forgot to bookmark Google Can Help You Solve Math Problems step by step The Science is Cool 5th Annual Unconference was held over the spring break. I was able to catch the last few hours of it. Lots of great stuff for science teachers of all ages. ScIC 5 Resource Page https://docs.google.com/document/d/11vq8aKTl-Q71jm5igGM9d5G-K2I_Q_Oo2Sx9qKYz6HE/edit Here is another webinar I tried to catch over the break. How COVID-19 has impacted wellbeing in international schools and some solutions for schools ISC Research https://youtu.be/p02wG-wU8xY Google has expanded citations.  From 9to5Google: Google Docs citations tool adding support for film, TV sources, because let’s face it most of our students’ sources are online https://9to5google.com/2021/03/31/google...