Friendly Friday Advice Comes Early This Week!

If you are already using Twitter, or if you are new to micro-blogging, here’s a sneak-peak at how and why you could craft your very own course hashtag with students: The reason your Friendly Friday Advice is coming to you on a Wednesday is because we’d like to invite you to lurk or participate in…

Digital Bytes – 26th September, 2016

Video Notes Video Notes is a fantastic tool for students to take notes on videos that are online. This step by step guide takes you through how to get started with video notes. You can sign in with your Google account and your notes are automatically stored in your Google Drive. QR Codes You have…

More Friendly Friday Advice

If you haven’t explored Google Photos, this brief overview might entice you to check it out.  As always, should you have more questions, please book a DLC to help you out. Have a great weekend!          

Digital Bytes 19th September 2016

Google Photos Features You Need to Know About If you aren’t using Google Photos now, you should be. Here are great features of Google Photos that you may not know about. My favourite is the ability to search by keyword. Try it out. Type a keyword like ‘writing’ into the search bar and you will…

Slide-ing on into the weekend

Welcome back to Friday’s Friendly Guidance.  This week we are focusing on a few tips and tricks for Google Slides.  As always, please feel free to follow up with a DLC for slower (or faster) help.               To read more about the Q&A feature, click here.

A Beginner’s Guide to Google Apps for Education

At a recent parent forum, we had requests for a workshop on Google Apps, so parents can understand what their child is doing at school and support them at home. We focused on Google Docs, Google Drive and GMail. You can see a summary of what we spoke about in the presentation below. We used the…

Digital Bytes 5th September, 2016

The Zen Art of Managing Smartphone Photos We get a lot of questions about the best way to manage the photos on your phone. Here are 3 ways to backup your photos from your camera roll that will save you time and energy. Calling Screen Time Digital Heroin is Digital Garbage You may have seen…

Ten Steps to get you to your next Twitter Chat

As far as spaces go, Twitter is a great place for educators. Over the past decade, Twitter has become a 24/7 space for professional development.  Twitter is a place to share, curate, and develop resources. It has allowed teachers everywhere to have access to experts anywhere. One of my favorite applications is the Twitter Chat….

Friendly Friday Tips: Post One for the Year

julochka via Flickr Every Friday, you can find a ‘Friendly Friday Tips,’ posts offering guidance in a flash.  For more help, please do see any of the DLC’s. As we get closer to the Google Apps Summit happening at SAS (mark your calendar and get that PD proposal in soon!), the Friendly Friday Tips will focus…