GEG Alberta

Templates are amazing!

Turn in Templates in Gmail

This allows for canned responses

You need this

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/ /advanced

Oh, I want to try this one out!

When you're teaching, having a slide presentation take over your entire monitor can be incredibly frustrating. Most of us aren't giving a 60 minute keynote and we need to be able to jump over to our student database to take attendance, or quickly check another window. Fortunately, you can change the settings so your slides present right inside a standard browser tab. Read this blog post to see exactly how to drop the full screen layout.

https://alicekeeler.com/2024/09/19/present-google-slides-not-full-screen/

Not for me, but each other their own. Try it out! 

Try to decide if I want my tabs vertically.

Right click on the blank space in your Chrome top where the tabs are and choose "Show tabs vertically."

The upside is I can see more of the title of what each tab is.

The downside is... I'm not used to it. 😂

When using NotebookLM

Check/uncheck the sources on the left

You can generate an infographic from ONE source to ensure the graphic is based on the content you choose.

In Google Chrome... when you bookmark a site...

RIGHT CLICK on the bookmark

Choose "Edit"

You can remove the bookmark title if the favicon is enough, or edit to be a lot shorter to give yourself more room on the bookmark bar.

Speaking of, create a folder in the bookmark bar to organize like items.

You can DRAG the bookmark icons around on the toolbar.

I really wish Google Drive had an "archive" feature. 😥

My solution is to create a folder called "archive" and dump all of my old files that I'm not actively using inside.

The start of a new year is a great time to "hide" all of your old files so it's easier to find the files you use on a daily basis. 🤗

One of my tricks when using Google Docs document tabs is...

NO CONTENT on the first tab

I invite people to look at the tabs. Maybe a welcome and explanation of the document.

I should not be surprised, the Workspace Studio icon updated.

It's in your school account.
Go to Gmail
Look in the upper right... do you see the Studio icon?

This allows you to automate things like "Automatically assess the importance of each email in my inbox and label them. Important ones add to a Google Tasks list. Really important ones, make me a Google Slides presenting the information."

Or things that are not Gmail. Automate your workflows!!

I asked Google Gemini to make me a list of 300 possible Gems that educators might like. Apparently I have "personalization" turned on so it included a ton of suggestions for things I have prompted before such as "Lemon pound cake modifier" (IYKYK)

See if you can find the easter eggs in here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wuDQabKUYRwWNe9QX8uxt0gczHAi44t81OB6JxZsF3Y/edit?usp=sharing

Going through my GOOGLE DRIVE connected apps... what the heck!!!

https://drive.google.com/drive/settings

Disconnect anything you don't recognize.