Google G Suite

Integrate: Advance Searches in Google Drive

EdTechChristina Google G Suite ,

It’s powerful to show students effective search tools.  At this time of year, students may have a lot of files in their Google Drive.

Here are some tips to show students how to search within their “My Drive” to find the files they’re looking for quickly (and they work for teachers too!)

Tips to refine a search in Google Drive (please note that not all examples work on all devices, but should work on Chromebooks):

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Just a Little More: How to Edit Your Chrome Bookmark Bar (for more space!)

EdTechChristina Google G Suite , ,

Is your Google bookmark bar getting full?  Would you like to make some room and get organized?  You can edit the text of each website that appears on your bookmark bar, or even remove the text all together (that will free up a lot of space!).

Here’s how:

Here’s a screenshot of my bookmark bar on the Chrome browser:

When I right click on a bookmark (for example, “My Drive”), I see options.  Click on “Edit”

At the top, I can change the text of the bookmark.  To get more space across your bookmark bar, keep the text as short as possible:

Now, it looks like this on my bookmark bar (takes up a little less room):

That may not be such a big deal to take out the little words, but some of our bookmarks have long titles and this tip really helps with those!

OR…

You can delete the text and just use the favicon (the icon that appears as a favorite on my bookmark bar):

Now, only the favicon (icon) appears on my bookmark bar (which really frees up a lot of space!).  Just be sure to remember what the icon represents.

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Holiday/Winter Activities- Lots of Fun!!

EdTechChristina Google G Suite, Robots/Drones, Web 2.0 , ,

Have some fun while improving tech skills, critical thinking, coding, collaboration, and more!

Check these activities out~

 

 

  • Ozo Claus (for those sites with Ozobot sets).
    Code your Ozobot to complete the track by avoiding the Grinch, stopping at the houses to deliver presents, and more!  This lesson is complete with Santa hats for your Ozobots!

 

Shared by Melanie Haynes and Karen Darroch, reformatted by Christina to be viewable within OUESD.

Make a copy of this slide deck for your files and then share your file with your class (perhaps in Google Classroom) to work on it together, with each student working on their own slide.  You may want to replace the numbers on the slides to your student’s names.  (Add or delete the number of slides as needed).  This activity is shared by Ms. Henninger

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