Fix Your Bookmarks or Favorites Bar

Whether you call them bookmarks or favorites, I have a ton of them. I don't know about you, but I am always bookmarking websites and the space Google gives you on the bookmarks bar (or favorites bar) is really limited. Well, there is a solution for that and you can organize and minimize the amount of space those take up. Check out the screencast below to see how to get more crammed into that small space. As a bonus I am also creating a link to a previous post about organizing tabs. I am a self proclaimed tab hoarder, I always have a bunch open and that realestate gets crowded as well. So click this link TABS to find out about those solutions.

TRICKS WITH BOOKMARKS

https://www.wevideo.com/view/1331586228

Encourage Creativity In Your Writers

How many of you wish there was a way to encourage your reluctant writers? How about a way to reward those students who publish a finished work. What if they could not only create a story, but could add a soundtrack to their work? Do you think this would help?

What if they could add sound effects to their published story and this story was then stored in a virtual library belonging to the class?

Well, all those features are available on Booktrack Classroom. Booktrack is a Google for Education Partner and teachers can create classes and have students join via a class code similar to Google classroom. Students can then create stories, read stories with soundtracks, and even access a class library.

If you would like to see and listen to an example please join Booktrack as a teacher using Google to sign-in. Then click on your name in the upper right corner and click join class and enter this class code wKEMcJ (this is case sensitive).

Here is a screencast showing how to use booktrack.

Give Booktrack Classroom a try with your writers.

BONUS

Have you ever typed something in a Google Doc and wanted to change the case? I know I have. Well, there's an add-on for that!

When in Google Docs, go to Add-ons, scroll down to get add-ons, and search for "Case Changer"

and click the free button. You will then be able to highlight word, letters, or entire sections and change the case.