Tech 101
Fast and Easy Tips to Make You Look Like A Tech Genius!
April 2015
All of these programs and tools are available at the Boise Schools Library Portal Page or on individual school library websites.
WorldBook Timelines
World Book Timelines offers hundreds of pre-generated timelines across eight broad topics, which cover various time periods in history or span the life of historical public figures.
Featuring more personalization and customization options than any other World Book site, World Book Timelines also allows users to create their own timeline from scratch, adding events, descriptions, and media.
What’s a Makerspace?
To describe them simply, makerspaces are community centers with tools. Makerspaces combine manufacturing equipment, community, and education for the purposes of enabling community members to design, prototype and create manufactured works that wouldn’t be possible to create with the resources available to individuals working alone.
These spaces can take the form of loosely-organized individuals sharing space and tools, for-profit companies, non-profit corporations, organizations affiliated with or hosted within schools, universities or libraries, and more. All are united in the purpose of providing access to equipment, community, and education, and all are unique in exactly how they are arranged to fit the purposes of the community they serve.
Google App/Extension Spotlight of the Month
The Save to Google Drive Chrome extension helps you save web content or browser screenshots to your Google Drive.
- Configurable through an options page.
- Adds a browser action to save the current page.
- Adds a right-click context menu to save hyperlinks and media.
This extension allow you to save web content directly to Google Drive through a browser action or context menu. You can save documents, images, and HTML5 audio and video all by right clicking and selecting 'Save to Google Drive'. You can save the currently viewed page using the 'Save to Google Drive' browser action.
Check out this video to see what this extension can do.