Photo editing in Google Drive

Uploaded images to Google drive but find they are sideways or need other changes?  

Here is the help you are looking for....   https://pixlr.com/

"Pixlr Express" or "Pixlr Editor" is answer to editing your photos in Google Drive
  Start by installing the app in Google Drive
1. Open Google DRIVE 
2. Click on NEW, scroll down to more then select 

3. In the Chrome Web Store Search "Pixlr" 
4. Select to connect the app to drive
5. Give permission to use with your Google account by click Allow access.

Now it is easy to edit pictures in Google Drive

1. Select the image
2. Right click  Select Open with

Once open you can find tools at bottom of application

GAFE YouTube Channel

Google and YouTube

A great way to use YouTube with your GAFE account is to create a playlist of videos to keep them organize for sharing as part of your classroom lessons.   
Another fun way to use YouTube is with Google+ Hangouts because the video chat can be saved to your youtube account for future views.  
Check out the video below to get started.....

YouTube Help Center

Hangouts Help

Mute sound on Google Tabs

Google has a Beta feature that allows you to mute Google Tabs Audio

Mute noisy tabs in Google Chrome:

1. Enter  chrome://flags/#enable-tab-audio-muting in the url bar.

2. Select enable

3. Enter chrome://restart in the URL bar

4. Once enabled, you can click on the speaker icon to mute without leaving the tab you are working on.  

Creating Maps

Creating A Google Map

Teachers can create a map with data using information from a Google Form, which will be populated into a Google Sheet in order to import the information into a Google Map.

Once the map is created, the map can be embedded on a website to share with your classroom, school, family and community.

                                               Example:    endangered-animals map

Start by:
1. Log into your google account on your Google Chrome browser.
2. Type into the URL bar mymaps.google.com

3. When creating a new map, type in a Title name of your map and set sharing features to public if you plan to embed onto a website.
















4. Create a Google Form to accumulate your data.  The information will be used to import a map layer. When creating your form, you need to think about the data fields you would like and the description that will be added to the map when you import your Google sheet information. Location and Title of information are important for the Placemarks.  ** You can create a question in a Form for links, but they do not transfer over when importing data. You will need to copy and paste links afterwards from the Google Sheet.

Google Form Titles

Google Sheet with Titles

Google Map with Titles

6.  Once you select the Google sheet of data, you will be asked to enable pop-ups in the top of browser. Then you will need to re-select Google data sheet from your Google Drive.

Google Sheet info from Google Drive account

7.  Select the location of the Placemarks and continue to select the Title of information associated with the Placemarks.

8. Once your information is imported you have options to change the look of the map, Placemarks, add images, and you can even edit or delete the imported info.  You have the options to add more layers of data or even just a single Placemark.

  

Explore the options here!  My Maps Help 

Google Tips

Google Timer

Quick and easy way to keep track of time in your classroom.  

1.  On the Google search page and enter: timer 5 minutes(or longer if you want)

2.  Press the enter and see what happens!

The timer starts automatically. 

Click on the speaker to mute the alarm. 

Click on the frame Icon to switch to the full-screen mode. 

**Google Chrome Users:

If you use the Google Chrome browser, you can just type, “timer 30 seconds” into the location bar at the top of any page! Then press the “Enter” key to activate the timer.