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Day two of Google focuses on the browser, Chrome. Today we will dive into two features that are good to know.

UPDATING CHROME

From time to time, you may notice that a green, yellow, orange, or red arrow will show up on the top right corner of your Chrome Browser. It is important to pay attention to this when it shows up. Chrome is letting you know that it is time to update the browser itself. (If you see an exclamation point, one of your Chrome extensions needs attention as a setting/update must be addressed.) For those of you who are worried that you will loose your open tabs, have no fear, they will pop back up! Do the updates as soon as possible by selecting the arrow and updating the browser. It is important that your browser is as updated as possible so that it is as secure as possible.

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Last February, I had the opportunity to attend SXSWedu Conference in Austin, TX. Google set up a space at the conference where attendees would walk through different Google activities over the span of 45 minutes. Each activity pertained to a common theme of recycling. While attendees were waiting to experience the three different stations, we were asked to fill out a Google Form and answer questions. Once submitted, we were brought to an infographic showcasing data from all those that had already completed the form. The infographic was constantly being updated. I thought that this was really cool taking data to the next level. Yes I have heard of infographics before, but I had not seen infographics being updated in real time. It was VERY COOL. I noticed that the tool that was used to make this happen was something called Google Data Studio (datastudio.google.com). I knew that this was going to be a future challenge for myself to take a look at. 

Wouldn’t you know, October arrived and I had yet to push myself to play around with Google Data Studio. It is amazing how quickly time flies by. Thankfully, it was brought to my attention that Laura Tilton was offering a one day workshop on the tool. 

I can’t say enough with how cool and useful this tool is. Let’s put things into perspective. 

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A couple of months ago, I had blogged about how BHS received two Jamboards through a grant from Google and BenQ – you can view that blog post HERE. Since that time, we have had an opportunity to investigate how we could implement Jamboard in the classrooms. This blog post will highlight five different ways, in five different settings, on how we have used Jamboards in the educational setting. This blog post is a bit longer than usual but feel as though it is important to truly capture just how we have been using the new tool. My hope is that it will help inspire you to trying Jamboard with your own students.

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Today we will focus on YouTube. Let’s face it. Most of us end up on YouTube at least once a day for whatever reason. Maybe one of these three tips will help make your viewing experience that much better.

Number 1: Autoplay

Do you hate it when videos will automatically play after you finished watching a YouTube video? Did you know that you can stop that? On the top right corner, there is a button that you can turn off so that “autoplay” is turned off.

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