Deb Norton Tech

Can you believe that May is just around the corner? There are just six weeks of school left! I have a son who will be graduating from high school. I'm starting to feel excited for him and his future .  Last weekend I presented a webinar called "10 Presentation Tools that Allow for Creativity and Choice". Here is the slide presentation for you to view. To showcase each of the presentation tools, I used the same pictures and script to create the same presentation with each tool.  Wevideo just announced this new feature . Oh, the podcasting possibilities! How many of these do you use to manage your Gmail account? Number 4 is really hard for me.  Check out these fake news resources .  I took the fake news quiz and got a score of 6 out of 6. Yay me! Here's what I've been reading lately. It's a real, on-the-edge-of-my-seat thriller! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Gmail is a huge part of our professional and personal lives. Here are some new updates for Gmail that will make this service even better! #1 Write Now, Send Later with Schedule send in Gmail You can now (or will be able to soon) schedule your emails in Gmail to be sent at a later date and time.  This feature will be available on Android, iOS and Gmail on the web. #2 Smart Compose is getting smarter! The smart compose  feature, which is powered by machine learning, will offer suggestions as you type. Soon,  it will personalize suggestions for you, so if you prefer saying “Ahoy," or “Ello, mate” in your greetings, Smart Compose will suggest just that. It can also suggest a subject line based on the email you’ve written, so if you are notorious for not including a subject line, now you have no excuses.  #3 Customizable Swipe Actions for the Gmail IOS App. To help you get things done even more quickly, with the newest update you will be abl...

Use These 10 Tips Some days I feel as though email is taking over my life. It can be so overwhelming.  Especially if I see too many unread emails.  But have no fear, help is on the way!  Use these 10 tips to keep your email inbox clean, organized and manageable. Tip #1 - Create labels (folders) to place emails into so they are out of your inbox. Click on the more tab at the bottom left and then create label. Drag any email into a label to move it out of your inbox and into a safe location for viewing later. Tip #2 - Use "Nest Labels Under" to be super organized. Make one label for a main category and then nest labels under this to keep one label from filling up with too many emails. Click on the three dots to the right of the label and then choose Nest label under. Tip #3 - Put numbers in front of your label names to put them in the order you wish instead of ABC order.  This way you can prioritize and personalize to your lik...

The Ever Changing, Always Evolving GOOGLE! Gmail is getting a new look and some new features. Check it out here . I’m excited about smart reply, which I use all the time on the Gmail app on my phone.  Snoozing looks interesting, as well as nudging. There will also be new security and privacy features. Google Slides has some new updates . First, you will soon be able to copy and paste a Google slide from a Google presentation directly into a Google doc.  Also, you can add guide lines to your Google slides to help you align text and images on your slide. You can now add checkboxes to Google sheets. Click here to learn how. One of my colleagues has a fancy email signature, so I asked her to share the site she uses with me. And wa-la, I now have a very fancy email signature. ------------------------------------------------------ Curricular Connection Mercury Reader Sometimes you might want to clear away the clutter from a website to ...

This week I am going to share some tutorials  that have helped me to be  more efficient and productive at work.  I have also started to save my tutorials on a Google Site.   Click here  to view my tutorials. Would you like to know how to make Canned Responses in Gmail?  If so, watch the video below: Thanks for watching!

This week I am going to share some tutorials that have helped me to be more efficient and productive at work.  I have also started to save my tutorials on a Google Site.   Click here  to view my tutorials. Would you like to know how to change the default font in your Gmail?  If so, watch the video below: Thanks for watching.

Recently I showed how to update to the newest views in Gmail.  While sharing this, I was asked how to make the unread emails appear at the top of my emails.  I wasn't able to remember, since I had changed this a long time ago.   So, as promised, I have found how to make this change.  Follow the steps below. Step 1 Click on the settings wheel at the very top of your email.  Not the lower wheel.   Step 2 Step 3 Step 4   Don't forget to click on SAVE CHANGES!! That's it!  Now your unread emails will be at the top of your list.  My favorite part of my day is when my email says, " Woohoo! You've read all the messages in your inbox."  

Have you used Gmail with your students yet?  Each of your students has a Gmail account already set up.  Their usernames are their graduation year (18, 19, 20) followed by their last name and first initial.  The password is ripon followed by their graduation year.   For example:  18smithr and ripon2018  Parents had to give permission to allow their child to use email.  You should already have the forms that show if they have permission (Pam gave you these earlier in the year). We had 3 students whose parents hadn't signed the permission form and when I explained that we would be using email as a way to send and return assignments and activities, all 3 of the parents agreed to give their child permission.  (If you would like to use the letter I sent home explaining this to parents, just let me know and I can send it to you.)   We use Gmail in a lot of different ways.  One way that we have been using Gmail is to send our students...