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A user can perform searches for resources, images, quotes, and scholarly articles within Google Documents, and then sources are cited with the Research tool.

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Last summer, Google sneaked a new tool in to Google Documents that is totally awesome. It allows students (or anyone) to perform searches for web resources, images, quotes, and scholarly articles from within the document - and then it cites the sources with a click of a button!

1. Go to: http://drive.google.com

2. Click the red "Create" button and choose "Document."

3. Begin entering information about your subject. (In this example, I'll pretend I'm writing a report about the owl.)

4. Highlight a key word.

5. Pull down the "Tools" menu to "Research."

6. This will open a Google search area in the right sidebar of your document.

7. Optional - Click the triangle under the search window to choose the desired citation format.

8. Click the forward arrow to return to the search results.

9. Use the pull-down arrow to narrow the search results.

Web Results:
Use buttons at the bottom of each search result to insert a link and/or cite the source of the website:

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Images
Drag an image onto the screen and it will be automatically cite the source!

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Quotes
Click to "insert" a quote and it will automatically be cited!

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Scholar
Click the "Cite as footnote" button to do that, or click the "Insert" button to insert the citation within the document text.

Viewing the Citations / Footnotes:

Simply scroll to the bottom of the page to see the citations in the page footnote area!

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Last summer, Google sneaked a new tool in to Google Documents that is totally awesome. It allows students (or anyone) to perform searches for web resources, images, quotes, and scholarly articles from within the document - and then it cites the sources with a click of a button!

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Quickly and easily create your own worksheets.

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The premier web service for creating professional educational resources. Used by teachers and parents around the world.

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Create a YouTube playlist to embed.

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Official Movie Trailers for YA Fiction - YouTube

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✎Use in anything that takes clipart.

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Turn words into a word cloud, with words individually sized to highlight frequencies of occurrence within body of text.

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Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud

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Need a random name picker?

(Use for other things, too.)

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A free online random name picker. Spin the wheel / fruit machine and decide to pick a competition winner! A fun app for teachers, classrooms, raffles, contests!

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Shorten a long url and create a QR code for it. Embed the url or QR code elsewhere.

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Need to get your students to a website but the URL is really long? Just paste it into this pre-made Google sheet, and it will automatically create a shortened URL and a QR code* for you!

This works well for students using computers, and is especially handy for students using mobile devices with QR scanners. You can easily resize the page so that even students in the back of the room can scan the code!

☞ URL Shortener & QR Code Generator

1. Make sure you are logged in to your Google account.
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2. Click the link above and make a copy of the template.
This will put the spreadsheet intoyour Google Drive. Once it's there, you can use it over and over!
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* Not sure how QR codes work? Click here to see the basics.

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Need to get your students to a website but the URL is really long? Just paste it into this pre-made Google sheet, and it will automatically create a shortened URL and a QR code* for you! This works well for students using computers, and is especially handy for students using mobile devices with QR scanners.

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Create online flash cards with information in a Google Spreadsheet.

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This awesome tool allows you to quickly and easily create online flashcards from information in a Google spreadsheet.

1. Go to Flippity.net

2. Follow the on-screen instructions and prompts to:a. Make a copy of the provided Google Spreadsheet.

b. Enter your questions and answers.
c. Publish the spreadsheet and copy the URL

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d. Return to flippity.net
e. Paste the URL you copied in step 3.
f. Click the "Go" button.

3. Use the icon in the lower right corner to flip and advance the flash cards

4. Click the "Share" button to get the URL and/or a QR code for your published flippity cards.

Could be used for any content area!

If the "questions" are links to online images, the images will show on the flash cards!

Students could submit questions and answers via a Google form and they could be compiled into a classroom set of flashcards.

Please add your own ideas in the comments area below.

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Flippity - Online Flashcards from a Google Spreadsheet!

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This awesome tool allows you to quickly and easily create online flashcards from information in a Google spreadsheet. Go to Flippity.net Follow the on-screen instructions and prompts to:a. Make a copy of the provided Google Spreadsheet. b. Enter your questions and answers. c. Publish the spreadsheet and copy the URL .

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Print what you want on sticky notes.

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In this tip you'll learn how to print onto 3 x 3 sticky notes - using a regular computer and a regular printer!
Note - If you don't want to create your own, you can use Tammy's pre-formattedtemplates.

1. Open a Google Presentation or PowerPoint.

2. In the Page Setup area, change the size of the slides to 7.5 x 7.5.

3. Add any desired design/content to the slide.
(You can add any combination of text, clip art, pictures, tables, etc.)

4. Duplicate the slide so that you have a total of 4 identical slides.

Printing Instructions:

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In this tip you'll learn how to print onto 3 x 3 sticky notes - using a regular computer and a regular printer! Note - If you don't want to create your own, you can use Tammy's pre-formattedtemplates. Open a Google Presentation or PowerPoint.

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To retrieve a tab you accidentally closed:

Control Shift T

or for 4 you closed:

Control Shift TTTT

For MAC:

Command Shift T

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Find a tab on the unibar in Chrome's browser with the speaker icon on the tab to quickly locate and turn off the Timer.

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Do a Google search for "Timer 5 minutes" (or whatever length of time you need).

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Create shortcut to a website.

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This is an easy shortcut that makes it a breeze to get to any website with a double- click!

1. Minimize and/or arrange browser window so you can see both the browser window and the desktop.

2. At the top of the browser window, locate the icon to the left of the web address.

3. Drag the icon to your desktop.

4. Rename and put into folders, as desired!

5. Double- click the icon on your desktop. It will open your browser and take you right to the website!

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Desktop Links - Easy Shortcuts to Websites!

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This is an easy shortcut that makes it a breeze to get to any website with a double- click! Minimize and/or arrange browser window so you can see both the browser window and the desktop. At the top of the browser window, locate the icon to the left of the web address.