Google Keep is amazing. So it’s kind of a bit like a hybrid sticky note. Kind of task list, just ways to capture information that you want to keep hence the name so if you’ve not seen it before, when you have got any G suite tool open or you’re even on the Google search page.
Do you often find yourself searching for online images to use and then wishing you could remember where you found certain ones? This blog post will show you how you can curate a collection of these online images using the Chrome web browser so that you can easily access anytime you like.
Here at UTB we do loads of training in G Suite with both corporate and education clients. So often we find that it’s the ‘little things’ that get the biggest reactions from our trainees. These ‘little things’ are usually pretty basic and simple but make a huge impact as they can help to increase your efficiency with tasks that you do everyday.
We all love having beautiful images to enhance our documents. But how often do your students (or you) just jump into Google and grab the prettiest image they see in a search? This blog will show you five easy ways you can share with your students to make sure they are getting gorgeous images that they can feel confident they are using legally.
When you go to the training centre, and if you just google search Google education training centre, you’ll come up to a page that will look something like this, and you have access to the different certifications here on the left hand side.
Google have recently released a new feature called Save to Google. The save to Google tool combines the power of bookmarks with the ability to save your images and store everything in 1 place.
All your saves live at google.com/save
Here are 3 ways to use save to Google:
Discover the use of Convert to help you get the most out of your Google search.
Google have a little known tool called Ngram viewer. Ngram viewer searches words in Google books and correlates their use over time.
Have a look at how to use this tool
With there being so much information on the internet, how do our students deal with all this data?
In this video we will show you how to easily find trends and correlations. We will look at a tool called Google trends.
Trying to help our students gauge whether a source of information is reliable is quite a challenge at the best of times. The following newspaper article illustrates that this is not just an issue confined to the internet. Here are a few resources you can use to help teach search reliability.
In this quick video you will learn how to use Google Search to easily calculate, graph, convert your information VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS Mathematical and Graph Calculation 0:35 How to launch the calculator 0:56 How to get Google to graph simple and complex equations Conversions 2:12 How to launch the Google conversion calculator 2:46 What units can
Over the last two days I have had the pleasure of hanging out at the Google Apps For Education Booth at the EduTech conference in Brisbane Australia. You can check out the #edutech Hashtag on your preferred social media platform. Below is a copy of the presentation I gave about how Google empowers differentiation in learning. It
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