Tech Talk from the NORT2H with Hairynomas

May 18

The world before Instagram

The world before Instagram

May 17

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May 16

A teacher’s complete guide to using Google Voice to collect classwork and homework -

Nice blog post on using Google Voice. I am a big fan of foreign language teachers using this for short oral assignments. 

Gmail is getting quick action buttons that let you RSVP to events, rate restaurants, view flights, and more -

Google on Wednesday announced the addition of a new Gmail feature called quick actions. These new buttons will be rolling out “over the next few weeks,” so don’t fret if you …

Just when you think Gmail is at its best Google Adds quick action buttons. 

May 15

Google Play for Education: Google goes after Apple’s K-12 stranglehold with cheap apps, tablets -

Today at its I/O event, Google announced Google Play for Education: A version of the Play store that is aimed and curated for young kids. Applications that are in the Play for Education …

This should make things interesting

Enabling Google Hangouts for the New Google +

So you visit Google Plus to day and wow! This looks great until you see that your domain has not enabled Hangouts? What?? You must enable the new Google Hangouts in the Talk settings for your Google Apps Domain.

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 Note that this is only for Google Apps Domain users.

Quick Reference Guide to Content Creation #infographic

Quick Reference Guide to Content Creation #infographic

May 13

Images in Google Forms! Happy Monday!

What a great share from Krista Moroder via Google +. 

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Bringing it all together for Google Apps customers: 30GB shared between Drive and Gmail -

More storage for Google Apps for Education users coming soon! Not a GAFE user? No worries Gmail accounts are upgrading to 15 gig. http://is.gd/nnMN6j 

Google Doc Templates return via Google Drive Apps

If you have been looking for the Template Gallery via web search there is some good news. A Google Drive App has been created to simply this process. 

  1. Login to your Google Account and go to Google Drive
  2. Select the Create button and Choose “Connect More Apps” at the bottom of your menu
  3. Scroll through the apps or search template to find the Google Template App
  4.  Hover you mouse over the icon and click the + Connect Button to add this app to your Google Drive account. Clicking the App title will give you more information about the App

  5. Go back to drive and select the create button. You should see the Template app which will direct you to the template gallery.

If you do not see the template app or any others after connecting them to drive you may need to talk to your Google Apps admin to turn on drive apps for your domain.