How to Create Placemarks and Layers On Google Maps Engine Lite – Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week
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How to Create Placemarks and Layers On Google Maps Engine Lite – Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week

The screencast video below provides an overview of the process of creating placemarks, layers, and polygons on Google Maps Engine Lite. Here are a few good uses of maps with multiple layers. Multiple layers could be used for showing data differences on a year over year or month over month basis. You could display the…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Word Files in Google Drive
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Word Files in Google Drive

Every now and then I will receive a Word (Docx) file as an email attachment. I have configured my Google Account to allow me to open these files as documents and have them converted into Google Docs format. In the video below I demonstrate how to configure this setting. Here are the most popular posts of the…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Digital Portfolios & Page Level Permissions in Google Sites
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Digital Portfolios & Page Level Permissions in Google Sites

Page-level permissions in Google Sites allows the creator of a site to share and give editing access to specific pages within a site rather than giving access to edit the entire site. To use page-level permissions open your Google Site editor then click “enable page-level permissions.” With page-level permissions activated you can share and allow…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Image Search + Text

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Image Search + Text

When most people look for images through Google Images they just type their queries. You can also upload an image to search for other images that are similar to it. A little tip that I discovered last year by browsing through some of Daniel Russell’s videos is to combine the two methods. In other words you can…