HowTo Tech Tip: Have you checked your Facebook Apps. recently?

Facebook App Check – Who has access? Last week I was on Facebook and a friend shared a news article that they had read and the title peeked my interest. When I clicked on the link, instead of being directed to the article I was first prompted to allow some App. access to my Facebook [...]

Google Apps Tip – Canned Responses

Do you remember those rubber stamps you could use to quickly mark a bill as being paid or print the words, “Great Job!” on a student worksheet? Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a rubber stamp for replying to some emails? Enter the Canned Responses lab by Chad P. This lab allows you to [...]

Google Apps Tip – Apps Status Dashboard

A while back I shared a tool that allows you to check if a website is truly down or if it is just you (Is It Just Me? on 1/8/2012). Did you know that there is a similar service available that checks the up/down status of 13 different Apps provided by Google? Enter the Apps [...]

Google Apps Tip – Unread Message Icon

This neat little lab, created by Manu C, adds a small numerical counter to the Gmail icon visible on the browser page tab. This way, even if you are working on another website in another tab, you can quickly take note of whether or not you have received any new mail in your inbox. Please [...]

Google Apps Tip – Signature Tweaks

One of my big irritants when I started using Gmail was when I would reply to an email. My cursor would be waiting at the top of the box for me to begin typing, but my saved signature would be inserted at the very, very bottom of the email response after all of the quoted [...]

Google Apps Tip – Historical Imagery

Historical Imagery – Using Google Earth to see change over time Historical Imagery is a fantastic, yet often overlooked tool found in the free application Google Earth. This tool allows the user to view a location on the planet at different points in time thanks to Google periodically updating its maps with newer satellite images. [...]

Google Apps Tip – Printing in Gmail

If you’ve ever tried to print a webpage, then you know that the document that comes out rarely conforms neatly to an 8 1/2″ by 11″ piece of paper. This problem can be doubly troublesome when trying to print messages from Gmail…that is, if Google hadn’t already planned for such situations. Print an Email Conversation [...]

Website of the Week: QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator (Gr. 4-12)

QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator – Get students using their mobile devices to move and to learn. If you’ve ever been shopping at just about any type of store, you’ve seen the bar codes they use to quickly scan and record the price of each item. Recently, a variant of the bar code called the [...]

Google Apps Tip – Right Side Chat Lab

Have you ever driven a car where the manufacturer put everything (headlights, wiper blade speed, cruise control, etc.) on one control arm attached to the steering column? Talk about not having enough elbow room. I was experiencing the same thing with all of these gadgets running in the left-hand column of the Gmail interface; I [...]

Google Apps Tip – Speech2Text w/Chrome

Google Translate Working with a student where there is a language barrier can be a very frustrating experience. Both parties are smart, knowledge, and communicative…but they just don’t understand one another. Enter Google Translate, which provides the simple tool of converting text from one language into that of another (there are currently 63 to choose [...]