Terry's Tech Tips

If you didn't get a chance to attend the EdTech Camp on August 17th, you missed a great opportunity to choose from 6 different PD sessions each hour for 4 time slots.  This format provides maximum choice to ensure your Professional Development time is well spent! The session began with an App Slam .  What is an App Slam?  Conference attendees (in this case the ITS's from each building) spend 2 minutes showing a favorite app or chrome extension they love and explain why!  Below is a list of the apps that were featured, and a brief description of what they do! Can't remember how to add an extension?  Just follow the link and click ' Add to Chrome '.  For more information about what extensions and apps are, read this post made last year ! For ease, I have placed apps under the following Categories: Use with Students Mindfulness (mind & environment) Productivity Browser Tab & Extension Managers Use with Students: EdPuzzle Pla...

Google Chrome extensions provide so much extra function and efficiency!  They make a powerful case for Chrome being your preferred browser!  Here are a couple of small things you can do with Google Chrome to make your life easier: Want a few tabs always open? Use Pin Tabs! Do you open the same tabs every morning (like Gmail, Drive, Calendar) and keep them open all day long?  You can have Google Chrome automatically open them for you!   By  pinning your tabs , these tabs look smaller and are set to the left side of your browser window where they stay.  If you restart Chrome, they will automatically set themselves up again! How do you pin your tabs?  Holding down the Option key, click on the tab that you want to stay open.  A sub menu will appear.  Click on Pin Tab , and that tab will move to the left.  If you close Chrome, it will automatically set itself up again.  Depending upon the tab, you may need to log...