100 Google Quick Tip Videos for Teachers!

 

If you use google docs, slides or sheets or anything else by them you might want to look at this website.  To see it click here.

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Googles Watermark Update for Docs

 

Welcome to February.  Richard Byrne posted that there is an update to putting watermarks on your google docs.  This is great if you are sending out an Individual Education Plan (I.E.P.).  You can put "CONFIDENTIAL" as a reminder across the document.  He also reminds us that " you can disable the option for collaborators to print and or download Google Documents that you share with them."  To see Googles update on watermarks click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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Google Docs and Writting Music

Do you use Google Docs?  Do you write music?  Well put them together and you have a free add-on.  

The add-on is called VexTab and the add-on can be found by clicking here.   If you would like more information or a tutorial on how to use it click here.

Search for Data with Google Docs

On November 11 2013, Google announced the addition of data tables in the Research drop down menu. Click here to see this announcement. Let say I am creating a lesson or if I am a student writing an essay on WWII and I decide I need to get some data on death rates during the war.  I could look to the internet or my librarian or better  yet use a data base that our board subscribes to (see the librarian) or even use the many databases available through the Windsor Public Library (see me) or I could follow this post.

To use this, first go to google docs by going here.

Click on "Create".  You will then get a drop down list.  You can now select "Document".

From here you can now select "Tools"

Select "Research".

Now select "Tables" (you could select the other choices to get other types of information).  By doing this you will now be able to obtain data.

Now I can enter the data item I am looking for.  In my example it is World War 2 deaths.

You can now scroll through the data.  Again some of this data might be bogus as it is from various websites.  However you can scroll through most of them and see if there is any patterns.  If you would like to copy and paste one into your document, just mouse over it and select "Preview"

If you like this table you can now just highlight it and then copy and paste it into your google doc.  You can now edit the tables by making the columns wider etc.  When you are done you can publish your document to the web easily by selecting "File" and "Publish to the web".

According to David Doherty, "there are several benefits to publishing a Doc over merely sharing it: Publishing a Google Doc it is viewable (but not edit-able) by an unlimited number of people; it is accessible by URL;  it can be embedded into a website or blog; it can be automatically updated as the Doc is edited, or can be a “one time snapshot” of the Doc.  To publish a Google Doc, go to the file menu and find the “Publish to the web” button at the bottom and follow instructions."