Tech Tuesday 4/17/2018 by Elise Joyce https://padlet.com/erjoyce/bz9p6tapjt72 en-us 2018-04-16 12:01:44 UTC 2018-04-17 13:10:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/68923036/a3f7b6b0310cd12b51926a2ccae4058d/bcat_paw.gif 💖 Fancy Text in Google Classroom erjoyce https://padlet.com/erjoyce/bz9p6tapjt72/wish/252105869 If you want to change up the text you use in your Google Classroom posts, take a look at Cool Fancy Text Generator (this also works in Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram). 

Cool Fancy Text Generator "converts a normal text to different free cool fonts styles, such as tattoo fonts, calligraphy fonts, web script fonts, cursive fonts, handwriting fonts, old English fonts, word fonts, pretty fonts, font art."

Cool Fancy Text also offers emojis, math symbols, music symbols, weather symbols, and much more. There are 100s of different styles to choose from. This tech find is exciting because you can't usually format text in platforms like Google Classroom--until now!

How it works:
-On the Cool Fancy website, just type in the text you want to "fancify" in the     editing box at the top of the page  
-Once you do that, you can preview all of the font styles below that box 
-Add any emojis or symbols (those are below the preview boxes) 
-Click the blue Copy button for the style you want to use  
-Paste the copied text in Google Classroom

Cool Fancy Text can be used in lots of platforms, like here in Padlet!  Here are just a few samples...

Ⓖⓞ ⒷⒺⒶⓇⒸⒶⓉⓈ!
[̲̅G̲̅][̲̅o̲̅] [̲̅B̲̅][̲̅E̲̅][̲̅A̲̅][̲̅R̲̅][̲̅C̲̅][̲̅A̲̅][̲̅T̲̅][̲̅S̲̅]!
🄶🄾 🄱🄴🄰🅁🄲🄰🅃🅂!
Ｇｏ ＢＥＡＲＣＡＴＳ!
G♥o♥ B♥E♥A♥R♥C♥A♥T♥S♥!
🅶🅾 🅱🅴🅰🆁🅲🅰🆃🆂!
★·.·´¯`·.·★ ɢᴏ ʙᴇᴀʀᴄᴀᴛs! ★·.·´¯`·.·★
°°°·.°·..·°¯°·._.· 𝔾𝕠 𝔹𝔼𝔸ℝℂ𝔸𝕋𝕊! ·._.·°¯°·.·° .·°°°
𝔾𝕠 𝔹𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕤!
𝓖𝓸 𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓪𝓽𝓼!
【G】【o】 【B】【e】【a】【r】【c】【a】【t】【s】!


]]> 2018-04-16 12:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/erjoyce/bz9p6tapjt72/wish/252105869 🔖 Fit lots of bookmarks into your Chrome bookmarks bar erjoyce https://padlet.com/erjoyce/bz9p6tapjt72/wish/252127814 Is your bookmarks bar overcrowded with unnecessary text?  Do you just want icons?  Here's how to edit your bookmarks...

1.  Right click on a bookmark in your bookmarks bar
2.  Choose Edit
3.  Delete the bookmark name or edit it to whatever you want
4.  Click Save
5.  Repeat for each bookmark you want to edit]]> 2018-04-16 13:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/erjoyce/bz9p6tapjt72/wish/252127814 ☑️ Choice Boards erjoyce https://padlet.com/erjoyce/bz9p6tapjt72/wish/252130320 I recently did a Tech Tuesday post on choice boards--Here are some more samples and a beginner's guide. ]]> 2018-04-16 13:26:44 UTC https://padlet.com/erjoyce/bz9p6tapjt72/wish/252130320 🤔 Ways to use Google Keep erjoyce https://padlet.com/erjoyce/bz9p6tapjt72/wish/252295663 What is Google Keep?  It's like virtual sticky notes.  In a nutshell, here are some features offered with Google Keep:
  • checklist
  • images 
  • drawings
  • color coding
  • labels for organization
  • set a reminder
  • share with collaborators - text, drawing, pics

Ways to use Google Keep in the classroom:
  1. Organize an essay or research paper.  Keep important ideas/facts in separate notes in G Keep.  Then, in Google Docs, click Tools and Keep notepad.  Drag your ideas/facts from G Keep into the Doc.
  2. Library of feedback.  Add common comments (or even feedback via Bitmoji stickers or GIFs) to a G Keep note--then just copy and paste the feedback into student work.  To do this from student work, just click on Tools, Keep notepad--G Keep will open in a sidebar, and you can copy and paste from there.  Here's example 1, example 2, and example 3 (thanks to Shake Up Learning).
  3. Take a pic of student work or notes on the whiteboard & share with students.
  4. Share to-do list with classes/department members.
  5. Save websites with just one click!  Here's how: Add the Google Keep extension to Chrome--once you do that, anytime you're on a website you want to save information from, you can just click  the lightbulb in the top right corner of your screen--a new Google Keep note will be created and you can type text on the note too.
  6. Have a club meeting or a parent meeting?  Add a reminder to a G Keep note and it will alert you at a certain time or when you're in a certain place to make sure you remember your meeting.
  7. Transcribe printed notes into text.  Here's how: Snap a pic of someone's notes and choose Grab Image from the 3 dots at the bottom of the note--G Keep will change that pic into editable text in your note.
  8. Class to-do lists.  Here's an image to show you how this works.

Where is Google Keep?
You can access Google Keep from the waffle/Rubik's Cube in your Gmail account or you can go to google.keep.com
]]> 2018-04-16 18:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/erjoyce/bz9p6tapjt72/wish/252295663 💡Quick Tip erjoyce https://padlet.com/erjoyce/bz9p6tapjt72/wish/252544319 Here's a quick way to duplicate a text box, shape, or image in Google Slides or Google Drawings: hold down the Ctrl key and drag the object. A duplicate of the object is placed where you release the mouse. ]]> 2018-04-17 13:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/erjoyce/bz9p6tapjt72/wish/252544319