World History
Okay, so perhaps it is not earth shattering, but while I love Google Docs, one of the short comings for me has been that you could only see the pagination view if you went to the print preview. Well starting today, it shows up just as it would in any Microsoft document and if you want to see it as a continuous page, then you simply need to go to "view" and then "document view" and "compact." Now if GD could just have a way to combine boxes in a chart, then it would be perfect.
- Preview Files In Google Drive
Google Drive now or will shortly allow users to preview files by simply right clicking on the file name. Free Technology for Teachers has a good story and some graphics to show you how to preview the files. The service will...
- 450 Fonts Now In Google Docs
My wife has not yet seen the wisdom of being completely on the cloud, one of the reasons being that she has more fonts in Microsoft Word. Well, it is almost ridiculous, but according to Docs Blog, as of May 2nd, you now have 450 fonts to choose...
- How To Integrate Google Docs/apps Into The Classroom
Today I am presenting at Lake Braddock High School (Burke, VA) on how to integrate Google Docs into the social studies classroom. As part of the discussion I will start with the slideshow above. Can you answer the questions and imagine...
- Tiny Url
From time to time I need to shorten my url. For example if I am sending out a message using Remind101 to my students, then my Google Docs url is too short so I get a truncated one. For example, here is the entire url for a webquest my...
- Pdf To Word
There seems to a ton of times in my life when I have wanted to convert a pdf to a word document but have been unable to do so. While it is a feature of Google Docs, it does not work as well as Pdftoword which allows you to convert short (3-4 pages)...
World History
Pagination in Google Docs
- Preview Files In Google Drive
Google Drive now or will shortly allow users to preview files by simply right clicking on the file name. Free Technology for Teachers has a good story and some graphics to show you how to preview the files. The service will...
- 450 Fonts Now In Google Docs
My wife has not yet seen the wisdom of being completely on the cloud, one of the reasons being that she has more fonts in Microsoft Word. Well, it is almost ridiculous, but according to Docs Blog, as of May 2nd, you now have 450 fonts to choose...
- How To Integrate Google Docs/apps Into The Classroom
Today I am presenting at Lake Braddock High School (Burke, VA) on how to integrate Google Docs into the social studies classroom. As part of the discussion I will start with the slideshow above. Can you answer the questions and imagine...
- Tiny Url
From time to time I need to shorten my url. For example if I am sending out a message using Remind101 to my students, then my Google Docs url is too short so I get a truncated one. For example, here is the entire url for a webquest my...
- Pdf To Word
There seems to a ton of times in my life when I have wanted to convert a pdf to a word document but have been unable to do so. While it is a feature of Google Docs, it does not work as well as Pdftoword which allows you to convert short (3-4 pages)...