Friday, March 21, 2014

Google Tips and Tricks - Part 1

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the GAFE (Google Apps for Education) New England Summit in Burlington.  Besides being able to visit the Cambridge Google office (see images below) and try on a pair of Google Glasses,  I was also able to learn a lot of in-depth information about the various google products.






Here were some interesting tidbits from my 4-day google-a-thon:

  • Google Docs - When adding a comment to a paper, if you start your comment with +, this will send an email to the person with your comment. For example "+studentname@mail.medfield.k12.ma.us you need more clarity" will send that student a message with your comment.  Clicking on the + in your comment will bring up your contacts, so you can easily select a student name without typing it in.

  • Google Drive - If you have a Word document in google drive and you want to convert it to a Google doc, you do NOT need to download and then re-upload and convert the doc.  Instead just 'open with Google Docs' (see below)




  • Inserting Images -  Now when you go to insert an image and you click on search you have access to insert Stock Images and from Life Magazine.  All these images are labeled for commercial reuse.

  • For fun- Go to google.com and type in 'Do a Barrell Roll'
Look out for part 2 coming next week ..

What's your favorite Google Tip?   Please share in the comments section below ..








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