Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Adding Attachments to Google Calendars
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Adding Attachments to Google Calendars

One of the nice things about Google Calendar is that you can add links and attachments to your calendar events. This can be a great way to distribute materials to students and their parents. In the video below I demonstrate a couple of ways that you can do this. Here are this week’s most popular…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – How to Insert Images Into Google Forms
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – How to Insert Images Into Google Forms

Inserting images into Google Forms is a great way to create quizzes in which you ask students to identify people, places, and things. Here are this week’s most popular posts from Free Technology for Teachers: 1. Seven Good Student Response Systems That Work On All Devices 2. Check Out the Education Templates in Stormboard – A New…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Show Students How Far Their Blogs Can Reach

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Show Students How Far Their Blogs Can Reach

The Goo.gl URL shortening tool will show you where in the world people are when they use one of your links. The point that I was making was that it can be interesting to students to see how far something they share can spread. Goo.gl is not the only tool that will do this and it’s probably…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Your Own Search Engine

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Your Own Search Engine

Last week I received an email from someone who had found the custom video search engine that I built last summer. The person who emailed me asked how I did it. There’s not much to it other than following a few steps at Google.com/cse. As you can see in the directions embedded below, you don’t…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Forms & Shortened URLs

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Forms & Shortened URLs

Almost all of my hands-on Google Apps workshops have at least two things common at the beginning.  I usually have a Google Form that I ask participants to fill out get a sense of the participants’ prior knowledge and to collect their email addresses to use when we do sharing activities. The other commonality to…