World History
I split my screen a great deal so I can look at websites and complete my project ideas for my students (or have a gradebook on one side and student work on the other). Well now Google is making it easier to avoid having to do this. When you open a document in Google Docs and the go to "tools" and "research," a new screen will open up on the right (see above). If you run your cursor over the bottom of each link, you will see three choices (preview, insert link and cite). Now the preview will set up a new column (again look above at the one in the middle) and that column will give you a smaller version of the page including videos. The "insert link" will, if you drag the cursor over the chosen words), add in the link from the webpage. Finally the "cite" will put a citation at the bottom of each page.
If you care, the picture above is from my final project for my 9th grade world history students and can be found here.
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Thanks to my fellow department member Tara Cook for this video on the lives of the Spartans and Athenians. If you are using Google Docs, then you can link the video to your assignment (even if you have already done it) or if you are doing a PowerPoint...
World History
A Search Engine Within A Document
If you care, the picture above is from my final project for my 9th grade world history students and can be found here.
- Adding A Video Into Google Forms
Yesterday Google added the ability to insert a video into Google forms. All you need to do is to go to the "insert" tab and then go down to "video" and then find it on Youtube. Alternatively you could watch this one minute video to do it....
- How To Use Google Hangouts
I am starting to feel as if Skyping is an old fashioned way to communicate online. If you have a Gmail address you can Hangout with up to nine others (and more are coming as Google employees can already do up to 40). At the bottom of the...
- Notes & Video On One Screen
From a G+ post by Craig Nansen that I found within the Google Certified Discussion community in G+ (which anyone can join) something brand new called VideoNot.es which, in Google Drive, splits your screen and puts the video on the left and the notes...
- New Google Changes
Google has been making a lot of changes recently to streamline all of its offerings into one area (part of CEO Larry Page's design) and in turn get people to join Google+. I've read that it is up to 100 million, but my sense (and it is...
- Wife Swap - Spartans And Athenians
Thanks to my fellow department member Tara Cook for this video on the lives of the Spartans and Athenians. If you are using Google Docs, then you can link the video to your assignment (even if you have already done it) or if you are doing a PowerPoint...