Day 2 of Google 2019 – Google Chrome

Screen Shot 2019-12-01 at 6.54.02 AM.pngDay 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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Day 1 of Google 2019 – Google Forms

Screen Shot 2019-12-01 at 6.52.37 AM.pngLet’s face it. Google Forms has great uses in the educational setting. There isn’t a time where students or teachers aren’t completing a Google Form during a particular week, regardless of the purpose. Here are three features that you may not be aware of:

IMPORTING QUESTIONS

You now have the ability to import questions from previously created Google Forms to help save you time. In playing around with this feature, I have discovered that you can also import questions from multiple forms into one form. For instance, you can import one question from a form, we will call form A. You can then indicate that you want to import two questions from another form, we will call form B. This might not necessarily be a feature that you would use on a regular basis, but good to know that it is available to you.

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10 Days of Google 2019

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I am back at it for a third straight year. Tis the season for giving…giving of Google tips and tricks that is. I will be blogging for 10 straight work days, starting Monday, December 9, 2019, giving readers different Google tips, tricks and/or ideas. As you know, Google constantly updates its product and changes are implemented throughout the year but yet we do not necessarily know that changes have in fact been made. My hope is that over the course of the ten days, you are able to carve out some time to learn new things about Google that could potentially help save you time in your day to day routine or enhance your curriculum. My other hope is that you have fun learning some of these new features as well.

10 Days of Google 2019

While I will be blogging each day, I will also curate all blog posts in a single Google Drawing for ease. To view this Google Drawing in another window, click HERE. If you have any tips, ideas, or suggestions, let me know! Here is to a great holiday season.

And that is my Spiel…

Google Data Studio: Interact with your Data

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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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Good Things to Know About equatIO

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equatIO can be a good tool to get your mathematical thinking down electronically. equatIO is part of a bigger suite of tools from texthelp. There slogan relates to helping make math digital. Whether you are a teacher who uses the tool to create content for students or you have students that use the tool to demonstrate competency or submit mathematical papers, feel free to take a look at this resource that I have put together. Good Things to Know About equatIO

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