Biweekly Newsletter #5

(Apparently I have been forgetting to post the newsletters that I send out to the staff I work with onto this blog.  I removed the stuff that pertains only to them and will post the old newsletters all at once.)   Friday, December 12   Update to Google Docs – You can now merge table cells…

Biweekly Newsletter #4

(Apparently I have been forgetting to post the newsletters that I send out to the staff I work with onto this blog.  I removed the stuff that pertains only to them and will post the old newsletters all at once.) Tuesday, November 25th Getting rid of notifications in Mac App Store – Simple step to get…

Biweekly Newsletters #3

(Apparently I have been forgetting to post the newsletters that I send out to the staff I work with onto this blog.  I removed the stuff that pertains only to them and will post the old newsletters all at once.) Thursday, November 13   Welcome to the third AHS Tech Times newsletter.   Self-paced Google Apps…

Biweekly Newsletters #2

(Apparently I have been forgetting to post the newsletters that I send out to the staff I work with onto this blog.  I removed the stuff that pertains only to them and will post the old newsletters all at once.) Friday, October 31   Welcome to the second AHS Tech Times newsletter.   Add-ons in Google…

Better Feedback: Google Docs vs Paper

One very important aspect of the learning process is how feedback is used to help guide the learner to improve and grow.  We must focus on giving effective feedback otherwise we will not be continuing the learning process.  When the only feedback that we give is a grade or a percentage, that is not going…

Open Drive Files In Desktop Applications

Google has done some updates to Drive recently and one that I really like is that you can now open your Drive files from in the browser into desktop applications.  You can open a photoshop file from your Drive in your browser, edit it, hit save and it will be saved in your Drive automatically.…

AHS Tech Times Biweekly Newsletter

One of things I took away from ITEC this week was some advice from Brian Abeling (@wdmTECH) about how they developed their tech newsletter for teachers.  I had been working on a similar idea ranging form a weekly video podcast to a newsletter like this to better share some of the tech tips and updates…

gMath Add-on for Google Docs/Sheets

This is an old post, go to https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/equatio/ to find about the replacement for gMath.   Something that some people did not like about Google Docs was the lack of an in-depth math equation editor as they were accustomed to in Word.  Through the use of a new Add-on, you can get a lot of the same functionality…