4-25-2023 Tuesday Tech Tips

 

🚒📽📚 In today's Tuesday Tech Alerts, read all about avoiding "Reply to all" fiascos by using Bcc, creating GIF's with WeVideo, a classroom virtual author visit, & more!➡️ ➡️➡️

💡 Quick Tip 💡 We’ve all been there: you find the perfect website for your research project on marine biology, but in a sea of sources you accidentally close the tab. If only there was a way to get to back! Well, now there is...

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I say let's not even give them the opportunity

We Bcc You Clicking "Reply to All"

It's happened to all of us: you send an email to multiple recipients, and someone replies to all with "thanks!" Someone else replies to all "Got it!" Then a third someone, painfully unaware of the irony, replies to all with "Everyone please stop replying to all." It's not a good look. But with one little adjustment, this will never happen to an email of yours again.

When sending a group email that you don't want anyone to respond to with reply to all, don't use the "To" field or the "Cc" field for the email addresses. Use "Bcc," or Blind Carbon Copy. Recipients can't reply to all if it's sent with Bcc. If you were emailed these Tuesday Tech Tips from Tech Director Tom Mariano today, look at how the email was sent: it was sent using Bcc. You can't even reply to all if you wanted to!

Another added benefit of Bcc is that your recipients don't see each other's email addresses. If you send an email to your students' parents and don't use Bcc, then they all see each other's email addresses, which some people don't appreciate.

Did you know you can use WeVideo to make GIF's like this?
Contact your ITT to learn more.

To use Bcc, you can click "Bcc" like in the GIF above (click HERE to learn how to create GIF's with WeVideo), or using the Control + Shift + B keyboard shortcut in Gmail also brings up the Bcc field. Let's all work together to make our future "Inappropriate-Reply-to-All"-Free.

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Classroom Virtual Author Opportunity! Meet the Creator of Kid President

In this Flip Live Event on Thursday, May 4 at 10:00 AM ET, learners from around the world will be inspired and encouraged to share ideas and to be deeply imaginative. Join NYT bestselling author Brad Montague for a conversation as he discusses his new book, The Fantastic Bureau of Imagination, and gives a top-secret, behind-the-scenes peek at the official agency that keeps the world's creativity flowing!

Your students will have the opportunity to ask questions and find encouragement to share their dreams, songs, and stories

with the world. Recommended for elementary school, ages 5-10.

Register HERE

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For assistance with these topics, or anything else related to instructional technology, please click HERE to book an appointment with your building's ITT.

4-11-2023 Tuesday Tech Tips

🔖🛹💯 In today's Tuesday Tech Alerts, read all about using bookmarks to make your Google Docs easier to navigate, designing Digital Choice Boards, a long-awaited feature in eDoctrina, & more! ➡️ ➡️➡️

💡 Quick Tip 💡 Let's face it: sometimes, finding the tab or bookmark you’re looking for in Chrome can be tough. But there's good news! Now you can search through your Chrome tabs, bookmarks and history right from the address bar!

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Image credit: www.teachingforward.net

Quickly Navigate Google Docs Using Bookmarks

Did you know you can use bookmarks to link within a Google Doc to a specific section or page? Bookmarks can be used within the document, such as in a Table of Contents, or to use outside of Docs as a link to share directly to a spot in a document.

To create a bookmark:

1. Open a Google Doc 

2. Click where you want the bookmark. 

3. Click Insert and then Bookmark. 

To link to a bookmark from within the Doc, like a Table of Contents:

1. Open a Google Doc.

2. Select the text you want to link from.

3. Click Insert and then Link.

4. In the window that opens, click Bookmarks. A list will show the bookmarks in your document.

5. Click the bookmark you want to link to and then Apply

You can also copy the bookmark link and add it anywhere, such as in a Tuesday Tech Alert. For example, we can point you to our current Chromebook models HERE.  More details on working with bookmarks in Docs can be found HERE.

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Choice Boards: Benefits, Design Tips & Differentiation

Providing students with digital choice boards can be a powerful way to offer choice, agency, and differentiation, especially when you may have several absent students over the course of a unit or week. Check out more about choice boards HERE: Catlin Tucker Choice Boards.

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eDoctrina & Infinite Campus Integration for Grades 6-12

A slick new feature has been implemented within eDoctrina. It allows you to copy your assessment scores into your Infinite Campus gradebook. Find all the details HERE.

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All-staff  Professional Learning Opportunity!

For any staff who would like to brush up on their Google Workspace skills. 

• Unorganized Google Drive? 
• Not sure how to find an old Gmail message? 
• Want to get better at collaborating with Docs, Slides, and Sheets? 

Come to this hands-on session to learn tips and strategies for using your time more efficiently while using Google Workspace. (Each session = 1 PL/CTLE Hour for GTA members.)

Click here to register for the April 27 2:30-3:30 session and 

here for the April 27 4:00-5:00 session.