Tech Shorts Episode 108 - Taking Staff Blizzard Bag Attendance in Schoology

In Episode 108, we review how staff can take their attendance in Schoology during a Blizzard Bag day. Go to https://sau45.schoology.com/home, and click on Courses. Then click on MA Staff/Faculty or MCS Staff/Faculty, depending on your school. Click on Blizzard Bags, and find the appropriate Blizzard Bag Attendance date. Click on that quiz, answer the three questions, and you are done! Let’s watch. 

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Tech Shorts Episode 107 - Bookmarking a Web Site

In Episode 107, we look at how to bookmark a page in the web browser of your choice. We’ll look at Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Bookmarking pages you often access simplifies your life and help keeping you organized. Let’s watch!

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Tech Shorts Episode 106 - Reply and Reply All in Gmail

In Episode 106, we look at the difference between reply and reply all in Gmail. Generally, you click on reply when you are responding to a person, and reply all when responding to everyone already included in the message. Before replying to all, however, think whether everyone on the conversation needs an answer. For a message requesting your choice of menus, for example, it is probably better to reply back to sender, instead of to all. You also have the ability to add or remove names after clicking on reply all to better tailor your message. Let’s take a look. 

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Tech Shorts Episode 105 - Sharing a Google document in Schoology

In Episode 105, we look at how you can attach a shared link in Schoology so that it is very short, instead of the usual long address Google assigns to the document you are trying to share. Let’s take a look. 

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Tech Shorts Episode 104 - Sharing Documents in Google Drive

In Episode 104, we look at how you can share a document from your Google Drive with others. There are many options, including sharing only with people within the sau45.org domain, or sharing widely with the world provided they have access to the link. Let’s watch. 

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Tech Shorts Episode 103 - Linking Discussion Through Multiple Courses in Schoology

In Episode 104, we set up a single discussion among multiple sections in Schoology, which allows you to reach your students at once. This is a great way to involve all students in the same course to participate in a discussion, even if they are in different sections and meet at different times. Let’s watch. 

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Tech Shorts Episode 102 - Navigating Windows on a Mac

In Episode 102, we look at a more efficient way to navigate between windows on your computer. This is an especially useful hack if, like me, you continuously have many windows open and you are drawing information from one to the other. To perform this operation, you will push the Command key, keep it depressed, and then hit the Tab key. This toggles a menu. Additional hitting of the tab key will select the next window. Let’s watch. 

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