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.  

Education on Air- Student Voices: "If I were the teacher"

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 

Cool Google Tool

Google Tool you may not know about!

When using Google Docs, Slides or Drawings there is a built in tool that you can use with your students to conduct research: Research Tool

Conducting research using Google’s tools has never been easier. To access the Research tool, click Tools > Research.The Research tool will appear on the right-hand side of the document.  Type in your topic to begin.

The Research tool will let you filter through different types of results — web results, images, quotations, maps, and more.

Use the back and forward arrow to scan search results.

Explore search results relevant to your document or presentation by trying the different options.

Hover over website links for options below:

• Select Preview to see the website or click on the link at the top to open in a new window.
• Select Insert link to add a link to the website into your document.
• Select Cite to create a footnote citation of this web result within the body of your document

Find images, text, and videos you can reuse

1. Type in Advanced Image Search for images or Advanced Search for anything else.
2. In the "all these words" box, type what you want to search.
3. In the "Usage rights" section, use the drop-down to choose what kind of license you want the content to have.
4. Select Advanced Search.

Types of usage rights

• Free to use or share: Allows you to copy or redistribute its content if the content remains unchanged.
• Free to use, share, or modify: Allows you to copy, modify, or redistribute in ways specified in the license.
• Commercially: If you want content for commercial use, be sure to select an option that includes the word "commercially."

Google Search Help Center

Advanced Search

Twitter Feed on Google Sites

How to add a Twitter Feed to your Google Site

First you will need to create an .xml file: 

To create/grab your Twitter timeline widget code 

•    Sign in to your Twitter account. Go to the settings from the drop down menu.

•     Go to the Widgets 
•     Create New Widget

               

• Your widget number is highlighted below.  You need  to copy the embed code near the bottom right after you create. Save changes.

• Open Notepad and copy the code below.
• Replace the highlighted information with you Twitter account embed info you copied
• Example Twitter.xml File

Code  to copy for .xml file you need to create and upload to 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

-<Module>

<ModulePrefs width="250" height="385" scrolling="true"/>

-<Content type="html">

<![CDATA[ <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/YourTWitterAccountname" data-widget-id="numberID#">Tweets by YourTWitterAccountname@</a> 

<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script> ]]>

</Content>

</Module>

• Save as .xml after you replaced your info in the highlight areas in a easy to find location. 

Go to your Google Sites: 

•  Then, sign in to your Google Sites account.

• Upload the xml file to your Google Sites attachments.

• Copy the URL location of the attached file (you can right-click the Download, then copy link address - remove the ?attredirects=0&d=1 )

• You can't put the Twitter widget on the Google Sites' sidebar. You can only put it on a individual page. So, go to your page where you want your Twitter timeline widget appears on your Google Sites.
• Edit the page.

• Then click Insert ▶ ... More Gadgets ... ▶ Add gadget by URL

• Paste the URL (of the Twitter widget xml) you copied earlier.  (*Delete the highlighted part of the pasted url)

• Set the width and height for the gadget. Then un-check the border/scroll and title option of the gadget.
• Click OK, and save your page changes. That's it. You have your Twitter timeline shining on your Google Sites.

***Make sure your Google Site is shared PUBLIC as it will not work correctly on a privite sharing setting. 

Sites

 Google Sites related material can be sorted with the Sites Label

Label your posts

Labels are a way to easily categorize your posts. When you're writing a post, click Labels on the right side and enter the labels you like, separating them with commas. Labels you've used before will show up below, and you can just click them to add them to the post.

When you publish your post, the labels will be listed with it. Clicking any of the labels or tabs across the top of the page, will take you to a page containing only posts with that label.

This should help us organize our posts to make it easier to find all the great information that everyone is sharing.   

Chrome Extension - Print Friendly & PDF

Chrome Extension - Print Friendly & PDF

http://goo.gl/1EjYfu

One of the biggest frustrations with accessing news articles and other written content online is the large amounts of ads and links scattered throughout the pages... and article that would normally only be a single page long becomes a four-page document when printed out.


Print Friendly & PDF, an extension for Google Chrome, easily solves this problem. Once you have navigated to the page you would like to print you can click on the green extension button to the right of the address box. A window will open up that has already removed any annoying ads and also allows you to remove anything else with simple clicks.


Want to remove links to other stories embedded within the article? Click on them.

Want to remove full-page graphics? Click on them.

Only want one portion of an article and want to get rid of the other sections? Click on them.


Now print what's left over and imagine the copier thanking you for making its job easier.


Print Friendly & PDF is also available as a website at https://www.printfriendly.com/

Awesome Google Drive Extension

Save Directly to Google Drive

Save to Google Drive Chrome Add on



By adding this extension it will allow you to save web content directly to Google Drive through a browser action or context menu. You can save documents, images, and HTML5 audio and video all by right clicking and selecting 'Save to Google Drive'. You can save the currently viewed page using the 'Save to Google Drive' browser action.