Welcome Back for the 2014-2015 School Year

I hope everyone had a great summer. Wishing you all a fabulous 2014-2015 School Year.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to stop by Room 222.

Look Up..... A Must Watch Video

This video is a must watch. It reminds us to put "the" distraction down every once and a while so life doesn't pass us by. This video should be a required watch for all children & adults growing up in this technological generation.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!  

Margins in Google Drive

Inquiring minds want to know.....

Many of you have come to me recently asking how to change the top, bottom and side margins in Google Docs.  It is in a different place than you are probably used to.  Here are the instructions....

When a Google Drive file is open - go to File pulldown and select Page Setup:

Adjust your margins as you wish, then click OK to save!

Email Send Default

Set default send email address

In our case, we created an alias to our bedfordnhk12.net domain to our sau25.net address. This option gave us the ability for all our email to have the sau25.net extension when sent to parents & outside agencies since that is our presence in the community.

These are the one-time instructions to set what email address all your email gets sent with.  You can have multiple email addresses but all can be sent with a specific email address.  Here are the user instructions to do that inside their Mail Settings.

Step 1: Click on the gear in the upper right of your mail screen & select Settings

Step 2: Click on the Accounts tab

Step 3: Click on Add another email address you own

Step 4: Click the “make default” option on the email address that you would like your “send

           mail as” set to.  Make sure the radio box selected is “ Always reply from default

           address”.  Once it is set it will read “default”

Step 5: Click Save and then you are done.

Simplified Printer sharing to Chromebooks

Sharing Printers from a Computer to Chromebook

This is a quick way to share printers from a computer with specific printers loaded on it to Chromebooks in your building.

1) Log into Chrome with your account on a machine that has the printers loaded on it you

   wish to share.

2) Click on Settings icon in toolbar

3) Click Settings from the pulldown

4) Click Show Advanced Options

5) Click on Google Cloud Print

6) Click on Manage Print Settings

7) Click on the IP address and click the Rename button to give it a normal printer name that is recognizable by users

8) Click on the Share button - share to those that you wish to give access to the printer on

   their chromebook via cloud printing.

9) Click Share at the bottom, choose the user(s) you want to share with & then click Close

10) Do Steps 7 through 9 for all the printers you wish to share

Formemailer Script for Google Forms

Created By: Kerri Lunn

Edited: 3/7/14

FormEmailer Script Instructions

This Formemailer script will automatically send an email to the person filling out your Google Form.  The basic steps to follow are listed below.  I have also included a great video I found on YouTube that walks you through the entire process as well.

Step 1: Create a form in google drive.  Be sure one of the data elements you are capturing is an email address 
of the person filling out the form.

Step 2: Create the response spreadsheet

Step 3: Go to the “Response” spreadsheet

Step 4: Click Insert / Script

Type formemailer in the search box and then click Install

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Click “Continue” on the Authorization required popup box

Click “Accept” on the Request Permissions

Click Close

Step 5: Go back to the Responses spreadsheet for your form.  

Click on the Formemailer option and click Install

Once installed, it will bring you back to the Formemailer tab of the responses spreadsheet.  

This is an informational tab only.  

Step 6:  Go back to the responses tab of the spreadsheet

Step 7:  *  Ciick on FormEmailer and select Settings. The screen below will appear.

            *  Click on the Email tab, In the Answers placeholders select the Email address

*  Click in the To: box  then click the “insert placeholder” and it will insert the email field you are

               collecting from the google form.

*  In the Subject and Body areas, you can change the information to format it the way you wish

   pulling the data you are collecting from your form.  

* Then click Save and Close
                

Step 8:  The final step is to Add a Trigger so when the form is filled out it will automatically email them the

              information from the form (i.e. agenda, etc)

* Again, you are in the Responses spreadsheet of your form

* Click Tools / Script Editor

* Click Resources / Current Project Triggers

* Click Add New Trigger and select timedriven, from spreadsheet and the on form submit and click

Save as indicated in the screenshot below. 

* Once the trigger is created you can close the formemailer editor tab.

NOTE:  Here is a step-by-step video of this entire process as well that is perfect: 

Adding Script to Google Form to Email Responses

Google Drive script add-ons

Google Drive scripting options are available to better manage folders between teachers & students.     These are scripts that we have found useful are:

GClass Folders - folder management for entire classroom or school for variety of reasons

Doctupus          - teacher owns folder & can monitor progress

Goobric            - google rubric

Flubaroo           - create a quiz and test with instant feeback

Autocrat           - use this to merge various files

You can find instructions anywhere for these script add-ons, this is the best one I found for documented instructions for all these: EdTechPirates  

Doctupus Instructions video

I had some basic instructions on how to use Doctupus but wanted to document the entire process. Once I found this video I realized why try to invent the wheel.  I found this video on Amy Mayer's blog. Great job on this video - Here is a link to Amy's blog.  I have embedded her video below.

This makes the managing of documents between teacher & students much more manageable.  Try it out!  Stop by 222 if you have any questions!

Embedding Twitter Feed in a Google Site

Embedding a Twitter feed in a Google Sites page

I was researching how to get our Twitter feeds back onto your Google Sites after the Twitter Widget  stopped working without notice.  I have researched on multiple forums and here is a compilation of  what I found works.     ** NOTE: This solution works for BOTH private and education accounts. ** 1.  Make a Twitter account and tweet a few times so you have something to test. 2.  Make sure your Google Site is shared “publicly visible to anyone on the web” 3.  Log into your Twitter account, select the gear in upper right corner, select Settings. 4.  You are going to make a widget in the Twitter interface by selecting Widget in the list     on the left, then click Create New in upper right hand side of screen. 5. Setup the Twitter Widget - select the User Timeline option.  You can change the view   by altering the Height, Theme and Link Color - once you click Create Widget  to save      your settings, the code generated has all these customized settings in it.    Note: if you change any settings, you need to click Save Changes and new  code will be generated. 6. The following Twitter Widget code is generated once you get it looking the way you    want, then select and copy the code it generates. 7. Copy and paste the following code BELOW into a text file. Then paste the Twitter code you grabbed  above in place of the blue line: <Module> <ModulePrefs title="Twitter"/> <Content type="html"> <![CDATA[ Replace this entire line with the code generated from the twitter widgets page. ]]> </Content> </Module> I.e., you should end up with something like: <Module> <ModulePrefs title="Twitter"/> <Content type="html"> <![CDATA[ <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/NHGAFEUG" data-widget-id="426820793830367232">Tweets by @NHGAFEUG</a> <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script> ]]> </Content> </Module> but the part in blue should be YOUR code, from YOUR Twitter widget. 8. Save this file as "twitterfeed.xml" and upload it to your attachments section of your Google site  (Manage Site -> Attachments -> Upload.) Then, right-click on the "download" link it creates, and  copy that link location to the clipboard. 9. Go to the page you wish to add the Twitter Feed to and enter Edit mode (click pencil).    a) Click Insert / More Gadgets / Add Gadget by URL.   b) Paste the link from your attachments page into the box, and correct it by    removing everything after the .xml part and removing the "s" from the       "https://" (the parts in red here): Original: https://sites.google.com/site/nhgafeug/twitterfeed.xml?attredirects=0&d=1 Fixed Code: http://sites.google.com/site/nhgafeug/twitterfeed.xml 10. Click the Add button, then you have the option to change some of the settings, then     save changes. 11.  Save the changes you just made to your Google Page and view Page.   Note:  Sometimes the Chrome browser will not display the Tweets properly.   The steps to resolve this are listed on the next page.  I have not run into the  problem so copied information from a page here to share with you. Chrome browser: In Chrome, reload the page. It will still only display "Tweets from @Username"  and not show the actual tweets, that's OK. a) Right click on the (broken) widget, and select Inspect Element. b) Make sure that Elements is the selected tab. Click on the little red x and  yellow triangle in the bottom right corner of the inspector. You should see an  error message along the lines of:  "randomnumbersandletters-a-sites-opensocial.googleusercontent.com is not  whitelisted on this domain…" c) Select and copy that entire address  ("randomnumbersandletters-a-sites-opensocial.googleusercontent.com"), and  paste it into the Domains section in the widget editor on Twitter.  d) Save the widget and wait a minute or two, then refresh the Google sites  page. Your Tweets should appear now.