Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – A Cleaner YouTube

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – A Cleaner YouTube

Update November 24, 2015: Unfortunately, the tool featured in this post, A Cleaner Internet, is no longer available.  YouTube can be a great source of educational material to share in your classroom. Unfortunately, if you try to search YouTube in front of a class you’re open to the possibility that something inappropriate will pop-up. I…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Image Attribution Helper

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Image Attribution Helper

When I don’t have an image of my own to use and cannot find a public domain image to use in a presentation I turn to searching for Creative Commons-licensed images on Flickr. Alan Levine developed a browser bookmarklet that helps me quickly formatting Creative Commons licensed images found on Flickr. To use the Flickr…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Creating Google Documents With a Landscape Orientation
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Creating Google Documents With a Landscape Orientation

New users of Google Drive frequently ask me “how do I change the orientation of a document?” To create a Google Document with a landscape orientation select “Page setup” from the “File” drop-down menu. In the “page setup” menu you can also adjust the default layout settings for your Google Documents. I have included screenshots of…