Google Search Tricks
Are you a Google Search Operator (nod to 80’s era Sade..anyone??) Commonsense Media shows students (and you) how to use a few common search operators to target and refine your web search. When you search for college information in Google, the knowledge panel, also known as the big box on the right side of the first results page, will now have some basic information about admissions, cost, etc. Looking for a podcast about soap carving or competitive dog grooming (we don’t judge) Type in the topic and the word podcast and Google will return a few episodes from podcasts as suggestions. You can even play them in the web browser.
Google Extensions for Your Sanity
If you aren’t familiar with extensions, the short of it is that they are little tools you add to the top right corner of your Chrome web browser that give it superpowers (disclaimer: not really). Here are a few that might help get you through a stressful day. Having too many tabs open in Chrome can be distracting. OneTab allows you to reduce the clutter. Just click the icon and all the tabs get reduced to one and you get a list of links to reopen any of the tabs. Sometimes you need to take a social media or YouTube break, but when it becomes a problem, use StayFocused to block or limit time you spend on certain websites. We’re talking about you, cute kitten videos.
Google Slides’ Side Hustle: Digital Notebooks
Google Slides isn’t only for presentations. Since it gives you the ability to add videos, links, customize the design, resize the slide to your own custom proportions, among other things, it also makes a great digital notebook. The Ditch That Textbook blog has directions and ideas for creating your own digital notebooks in your class.
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