Hey. We are doing a collaborative webinar on Community over Content for Professional Development. Going live in a minute!
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Hey. We are doing a collaborative webinar on Community over Content for Professional Development. Going live in a…
Hey. We are doing a collaborative webinar on Community over Content for Professional Development. Going live in a minute!
Two new jobs at Google opened up today that make me ponder what kinds of things they are up too…
Two new jobs at Google opened up today that make me ponder what kinds of things they are up too…
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Going to be doing a collaborative Webinar this afternoon on “Community over Content” in PD. Go and sign up!
Going to be doing a collaborative Webinar this afternoon on “Community over Content” in PD. Go and sign up!
What I'm Using: A Chrome Extension to make Google Docs into WordPress Blog Posts
I find this extension to be awesome! I hope to use it a lot in collaborating on blog posts and in making things that I have written into an ongoing conversation.
Send to WordPress – Chrome Web Store
As a blog writer, you are most likely using Google Docs for most of your writing process. After hours of writing and reviewing, you finally have a completed blog post that you are ready to show the world. All that is left is to upload your document to WordPress. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple task often proves to be quite a hassle since you need to format the entire post in order to fit your blog’s style.
This extension is designed make your publishing process as fast and efficient as possible. Simply open your document with Google Docs to WordPress and click “create post(s)”. Your new post is now on WordPress, styled to fit your WordPress theme. Your images have also been taken care of, each one labeled correctly and appearing exactly in the right place
I love Google+ Stories. I just wish I could create them instead of just edit.
I love Google+ Stories. I just wish I could create them instead of just edit.
What I'm Learning: "Adding" files to multiple folders in the New Google Drive is Rediculous
Although you can still do this in the New Google Drive, the keystoke has changed to the nonsensical “Shift+Z” to open up the “add to” dialog. Thank goodness you can still hold down control (or Option on a mac) while you drag things from one folder to another in drive so you don’t mess with the permissions while you are adding it to your own folder structure. I know they are trying to simplify things, but I don’t think this is the right way of going about it.
About moving content from shared folders – Google Apps Administrator Help
Advanced users can add the file to ‘My Drive’ instead of moving it. This is not a copy of the file. It’s literally the same file located in multiple folders. For example, renaming the file in My Drive will rename it for everyone and sharing it will share the original file with anyone the added file is shared with. Users can do this by selecting a file and then pressing Shift+Z to display the “Add To” dialog box.
When Robots Start Taking Careers Instead Of Jobs, What Does Career Ready Mean?
Today’s podcast episode is about how challenging I found two videos about how robots, automation, and mechanization will take entire careers. I want to start thinking about what we can stop teaching based upon the idea that many of the careers we are preparing students for will not exist in 25 years.
Here are the two videos, so that you may become challenged and inspired as well:
http://youtu.be/kYIfeZcXA9U
Project Roundtable: Passionate Learning, Creating and Collaborating in the New School Year
*Collaborative Planning Doc:* http://bit.ly/passionroundtable
*Roundtable Purpose:*
This roundtable is meant to help support teachers and leaders going back into their schools with a passionate approach to learning. It is meant to share best practices for the new school year and uncover collaboration points between teachers and schools.
*Roundtable Audience:*
This is for any teacher or leader going back to school after summer break (or that has continued to work and create throughout the summer). This is an opportunity for all of us to share the things we are most excited about in this school year, and to start thinking through where we hope to be by the end of the year.