Category: google
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SmartPhones to Consider Besides the iPhone
I’d like to share several smartphones BESIDES the iPhone to consider purchasing and using. I have not decided for sure if I’m going to upgrade my iPhone 6S to the iPhone 7 or to a model by a different manufacturer. In this post, I’ll review several REASONS to consider iPhone-alternative smartphones as well as specific…
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Podcast449: Innovating with Google Tools – Digital Citizenship in the Security State
Welcome to the November 20, 2016, podcast episode of “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” with Wesley Fryer. This episode includes two recent presentation recordings by Wes from the last two weeks. The first was the opening keynote at the November 12, 2016, Google Summit in Maize, Kansas, titled “Innovating with Google Tools.” The second is…
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Force Chromebook User Logout When Closed
Security is a big deal at school and outside the classroom. It’s important to teach as well as encourage everyone at school, including students, teachers, and parents, to remember the importance of LOGGING OUT of shared computers and computing devices after using them. While this is important to emphasize, it’s also valuable to find strategies…
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Comparing Risks and Benefits of a PreTeen YouTube Channel
Our daughter, Rachel, is thrilled to have hit the 400 subscriber milestone on her YouTube channel. To celebrate and thank her fans, she created a “400 Subscriber Special” video this week that features an awesome “speed draw” as well as details of a special giveaway she’s having. I’m so amazed at how her video creation skills…
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Google Cloud Print Not Working with Brother Printer
The Brother MFC-J4420DW printer at our house actually IS working with Google Cloud Print now, but I had to make some changes to its setup today and thought I’d write a quick post to share what I learned. We’ve had this printer about 8 months now, and overall it’s been fantastic. We can wirelessly print at home from our…
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Setting Up Google Cloud Printing at School
Like many schools, we have some older Windows PCs in our library and in other locations which aren’t running as fast as our users would like and need to be refreshed or replaced. We have several carts of Chromebooks in use, which are working great, but haven’t yet purchased Chrome Device management licenses for them to…
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AirPlay Mirroring for Chromebooks with AirParrot
I learned many things during my visit to Brazil this week for a two day STEM Institute. One of the most exciting topics involved Chromebooks and Apple’s AirPlay technology. Previously I’d thought only Apple devices (MacBook laptops, iPads, iPhones, etc.) could wirelessly stream and “mirror” content to a projector using AirPlay. It turns out, thanks to Air Parrot for…
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Email Mail Merge Custom PDF Certificates with autoCrat for Google
Saturday was our fourth EdCampOKC conference in Oklahoma City and it was great! This year to provide professional development certificates to attendees afterward, our organizer team got fancy and used the free Google Add-On autoCrat. “autoCrat for Google Sheets” (CC BY 2.0) by Wesley Fryer autoCrat is a powerful, customizable script for Google Forms and Google Sheets which can…
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Publishing Student Videos with a Shared YouTube Account
Since we returned from Christmas break I’ve been working with our 7th grade Spanish teacher to utilize the iPad app “Green Screen” by Do Ink along with a Green Screen setup for his students to record videos of short Spanish language skits they’ve written and memorized. His students have been recording different scenes and combining…
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Picasa Slideshow Link for iPhones: No Flash Required
One of our teachers loves to share photos he takes of students working in class using Picasa on his classroom Google Site. He’s been using Picasa for years, but unfortunately all of the sharing options (like photo slideshows) from Picasa don’t work on smartphones like iPhones. I think this is because some of them are…