Google Keep is and always probably will be my absolute favorite Google service. The ability to quickly jot down ideas as I experience and become inspired by things around me in life is invaluable. While other note-taking applications do exist, Keep’s simplicity remains the reason I choose it over its competitors. That’s not to say […]
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Win 30 Logitech ChromePacks to outfit an entire classroom
In case you didn’t know, Logitech has been making great accessories that work perfectly with Chromebooks for years at this point. I’ve been a big fan of their keyboard and mouse accessories for quite some time and have used countless versions with numerous Chromebooks over the years. With the advent of the Works with Chromebook […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Contacts will now let you share a link to another user’s profile
Just days ago, Google Contacts began rolling out a revamped visual card-style backdrop to contact entry fields, and though it’s a small update, it’s a welcome one. More accessibility, a more attractive app featuring Material You, and just all-around better. It truly is the little things in life that make the most difference, wouldn’t you […]
Continue ReadingGmail for the web begins rolling out Material You redesign, option to disable Integrated view
Google stated back in February that it would give Gmail for the web a complete Material You overhaul. At first, however, it only received its much anticipated “Integrated” view, which placed Mail, Chat, Spaces, and Meet along the left-hand sidebar as icons instead of them being completely separate widgets in the sidebar itself. Clicking these […]
Continue ReadingThe 14″ CTL Chromebook PX14EXT w/touchscreen is available for pre-order
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) annual conference is in full swing. 24,000 plus educators, innovators, and tech companies have converged in New Orleans to discover the latest and greatest education technologies and tools. Oregon-based CTL is right there in the mix and has announced some new products and services that are very […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Contacts is getting a card-style visual redesign
In what seems like an effort to bring all of its apps into the same Material You design language (for once), Google is now updating its Contacts app to reflect this decision. To be clear, it already received this update last year, but today, it’s going a step further and beautifying it a bit more […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Tasks will now let you print out your list for analog productivity
In my household, I’m the digital enthusiast, whereas my fiancée is in love with the idea of completing tasks from paper or even a sticky note. Don’t get me wrong, I love the smell, feel, and traditional nature of paper, and still use a real journal to this day, but I love the flexibility, collaborative […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Calendar to rely on Tasks instead of Assistant-based reminders going forward
According to a new APK Insights report by 9to5Google, Google could be moving away from Assistant for reminders inside of its Calendar app. Instead, it’s looking like it could be replaced by the official Google Tasks system – you know, that app that we all thought the company forgot about, but suddenly started getting lots […]
Continue ReadingGoogle partners up with Figma to bring the popular design tool to Chromebooks
The Anywhere School 2022 event that took place yesterday brought us many exciting announcements about the future of Google Classroom and the role Workspace features and Chromebooks will play. Things like auto-transcribing Meet calls and “cast moderator” mode in the new Screencast app will be pivotal in today’s digital classroom. There was one more announcement […]
Continue ReadingThe Anywhere School School 2022: Event overview and announcements for education
Google’s The Anywhere School 2022 webinar event took off today with product launches and announcements to improve how students and teachers use technology in the classroom. The announcements included new updates to Chromebooks, Google Classroom, and Google Meet. Here’s a summary of everything that’s coming: The official launch of Screencast app Last month, we shared […]
Continue ReadingPin up to three videos simultaneously in Google Meet with the Multipin accessibility update
Google Meet will now let you “multipin” things during video calls including participant’s feeds and active presentations. This can be useful for a number of reasons but is primarily being advertised as an accessibility feature as that’s how it was first announced last month during Global Accessibility Awareness Day. For example, someone who is deaf […]
Continue ReadingAll of Google Meet’s features are coming to Duo, app to be renamed “Google Meet” later this year
Just days after Jaxon wrote his piece about the innovations that Google Duo made over Hangouts and how it was better, Google is saying goodbye to it. Despite what you may read in the headline, Duo itself sure will be dead and gone as a brand, but its features and the app itself will live […]
Continue ReadingYou can now copy and paste files across Google Drive instead of having to use the ‘Move’ option
Before Google cleaned up Drive’s duplicate, messy file structure, pretty much all users had multiple versions of the same file in many locations, making it nearly impossible to manage. Now that they’ve gone through and turned these into what can basically be considered arrows or shortcuts pointing to the original file, Google is allowing you […]
Continue ReadingHow to use the VLOOKUP function in Google Sheets to find things in a table or range by row
Google Sheets is powerful. It’s not as powerful in some ways as Microsoft Excel has become over the past four decades, but it’s stuffed full of functions – Google’s name for formulas – and these can be used to turn the spreadsheet service into a powerhouse for data organization and analysis. Today, I’m going to […]
Continue ReadingI’m beyond ready for these Airtable and Notion-style features to come to Google Sheets
I used to hate spreadsheets. Period. The main reason why is that I hated formulas, and thought they were extremely confusing. I mean, I was right, of course, but I also had pretty much no data to organize in my youth, so I couldn’t see the practical application of learning to use them, to begin […]
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