Tech Tips
February - 2017
Quote of the Month
-Steve Jobs
Reduce tab clutter in Chrome with OneTab
Once installed, OneTab adds a little filter-like icon to the far end of Chrome's address bar. Click it and every open tab disappears, replaced by, well, a OneTab tab. Within that you'll find all your tabs in a convenient list; click any one of them to reopen that tab, or click Restore all if you want them all back.
You can also mouse over a list item, then remove it by clicking the X that appears (akin to closing its tab). Or, drag and drop tabs to reorder your list.
OneTab offers a few other features that could prove handy as well. You can import and export all the URLs, or even turn your list of tabs into a shared Web page with its own unique URL (complete with QR code).
Suppose, for example, you've been shopping online for a new laptop, and you want to share all your findings with your spouse. Instead of copying and pasting all the URLs into an e-mail, you could just create a OneTab Web page and e-mail that single link. (http://www.pcworld.com)
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How to Use Virtual Reality and Google Expeditions in the Classroom
Google defines this product as, “Google Expeditions enable teachers to bring students on virtual trips to places like museums, underwater, and outer space. Expeditions are collections of linked virtual reality (VR) content and supporting materials that can be used alongside existing curriculum. These trips are collections of virtual reality panoramas — 360° panoramas and 3D images — annotated with details, points of interest, and questions that make them easy to integrate into curriculum already used in schools. Google is working with a number of partners, including: WNET, PBS, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the American Museum of Natural History, the Planetary Society, David Attenborough with production company Alchemy VR and many of the Google Cultural Institute museum partners to create custom educational content that spans the universe.”
The video below will help you see the possibilities of Google Expeditions in the classroom, as we see it from the eye of a middle school student. (http://www.shakeuplearning.com)
1939 Presidential Broadcast
Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first president to be on television.