Now You Can Edit Images In Google Slides

Google Slides has come a long way since its early days of offering very basic collaborative slideshow creation. Today, Google released a new...

Lots of Interesting Ways to Use Technology In Your Classroom

Earlier today in my Feedly account I noticed that Tom Barrett had published updated versions of two of his very popular Interesting Ways pr...

How to Use Google Slides to Organize Research

Like many of you, when I was in middle school and high school we were taught to create index cards to organize our research. After creating ...

The New Google Drive Activity Stream Shows You All Activities In One Place

Beginning today Google Drive users have a new option for tracking activity on their files. If it hasn't appear already, a new  ⓘ  icon ...

How to Make Copies of Google Documents Shared With You As "View Only"

Have you ever come across a Google Document or Google Presentation on the web that you wanted to have a copy of for yourself but discovered ...

Reuse Custom Themes in Google Slides - And Other Enhancements

Earlier this fall Google added the option to create custom themes in Google Slides (the Google Drive presentation tool). Today, they added t...

Google Slides Goes Widescreen - New Theme Options Too

If you opened Google Slides today, you may have noticed a couple of new options available to you. Earlier today Google announced the additi...

Sweet! Now You Can Use Google Slides Offline

Google Chrome users have been able to use Google Documents offline for quite a while now. Today, Google announced that you can now use Goog...

By Popular Demand - A 3rd Offering of Google Drive and the Common Core

Earlier this week the January session of my new webinar series Google Drive and the Common Core sold out. I've had a bunch of people as...

New Course - Google Drive and the Common Core

Over the last few months I have had the good fortune to introduce many educators to using Google Drive to help their students meet Common Co...

Important Lesson About New Google Presentations

Over the last ten days or so I've seen a huge increase in the number of requests that I get to share some of my presentations that I...

Quickly Find Images for Google Presentations

Back in May Google added an integrated research tool to Google Docs. The research tool allows you to quickly find images, quotes, and links ...

Ten Common Challenges Facing Educators

Below you can find the slides for the keynote presentation that I gave this morning at the fall Tech Leadership Symposium on the campus of B...

26+ Ways to Use Thinglink in the Classroom

Thinglink is a tool for creating interactive images. I've written about it quite a bit in the last few months ( click here to learn ho...

Google Drive and Docs for Teachers - Free eBook

Last month I published a free ebook titled Google Documents for Teachers . Just two weeks later Google released Google Drive and made Google...

New Discussion Option for Google Docs Presentations

Last March Google introduced threaded discussion comments to Google Documents. That feature is great for suggestion edits or asking questio...

Try Google Docs Presentations Without Registering

Today, a post on the Google Docs Blog reminded me that it is possible to try out Google Docs features without having to register for a Goog...