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This week's TechByte shares a simple mechanism to keep your passwords secure with
a Password Keeper file, which is password protected to prevent unauthorized use.
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This week's TechByte shares a simple mechanism to keep your passwords secure with
a Password Keeper file, which is password protected to prevent unauthorized use.
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This week's Techbyte shows you how to scan your documents on our Canon iR series copiers, with the searchable PDF option. That enables text inside a scanned image to be searched or copied, by performing OCR (optical character recognition) processing on a scanned image and adding a transparent layer of text data with the extracted text. You can then paste that text into MS Word.
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Apart from posting curricular material and assignments on Google Classroom, you can (and should) use Google Hangouts (now rebranded as Google Meet) to create a virtual classroom for your students.
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This week's TechByte covers these 2 helpful PDF tricks, to make it incredibly simple to get important paperwork filled out, signed, and merged quickly, even when you don't have access to a printer, scanner, or fax machine.
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ln This week's TechBytes goes over a number of resources (SlidesGo, SlidesMania & SlidesCarnival) for downloading beautiful and professionally designed templates for PowerPoint and Google Slides that'll significantly ease your workload in creating stunning presentations.
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This week's TechByte focuses on a great study-tool, Flippity, that easily turns a provided Google template into custom flashcards, a badge creator, a spelling quiz, a memory game, a word search, and more. Teachers can use Flippity for a variety of purposes: create study guides, present to the class, assess individual students, or have students make their own creations.Check it out and create some flash cards for the benefit of your classes. Your students will thank you!
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Google Chrome offers some pretty great extensions, many of which come in especially handy in staying productive and organized. This week's TechByte focuses on 2 extensions - Just-Read that helps you read articles on the web without the annoying crud of ads, pics and videos pop-ups. The other is "Full Page Screen Capture", that converts an entire web page to an image in just one click, without any ads gumming it up.
EPISODE 21: Here's a tip for iPhone users (aka everybody) - did you know that your iPhone can double as a portable PDF document scanner, especially for material that does not lend itself to scanning easily, such as a bound book. Apple's document scanner is hidden inside the built-in Notes app, and because it supports in-app sharing, you can store and send the newly scanned documents anywhere you want instantly.