If you are like me you have tons of old notes you took at a meeting, at a conference or that were shared with you. How awesome would it be to take those handwritten notes, pamphlets, handouts or pictures you took during a conference presentation and turn them into text in a google doc? Watch the video below to see how to take something on paper, and turn it into an electronic document automatically.

If you haven't tried google lens, it will change the way you search for items! Do you like the chairs you sat in at a meeting and want to purchase them yourself? Do you like someone's lamp but don't want to ask where they bought it? Did you see a beautiful statue downtown but don't know anything about it? Are you on vacation in a foreign country and would love to know what that sign says? Try google lens to use google search to find that item, or picture and tell you information about it, or where you can buy it. See the video below for instructions on several phone types and some examples!

Try our very own short links in Google!

Want to link a website, Professional Development class or google doc/sheet to a group? Customize your very own short link utilizing our own ESC 18 short link site. Instead of sharing a long URL that you will never remember for that google doc, imagine it being as simple as go.esc18.net/AwesomeHandout. All files not only get personalized URL's set up and named by you, but they also keep the ESC 18 website branding. Plus it organizes all your URL files in one location so you never lose or forget them!

Visit go.esc18.net to start creating your own short links for all those websites and files!

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