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Here are four useful tips for using a Chromebook more efficiently. #1 - Did you know that a Chromebook has a built in screen recorder? The Chromebook screen recorder works similarly to the screen recorder on an iphone. You can capture a snapshot or a video with or without sound. You can choose to capture your entire screen, a window, or select a part of your screen. Here is a how-to video .  *Note: I like to use the shortcut shift + control +  show windows keys to open the screen recorder on a Chromebook #2 Perhaps you are looking for a way to save all of your open tabs to be able to reopen them later. Here is a quick and efficient way to bookmark all of your tabs.  #3 Save any webpage as an icon to the shelf on your Chromebook. I use this for quick access to any site that I tend to have to open quickly several times a day. It saves me so much time! Follow these three steps. #4 Have you ever started to enter the name of a website into the omni box (the area where you type...

Most people use Google or Wikipedia to search a topic.  Recently Google changed how its search engine works integrating Google + ahead of Facebook and Twitter.   Click here and here to read more about that. So, if you wanted to do a Google Search for, let's say, digital story telling, here is what it would look like: It doesn't look like much has changed to me.   Did you know there are many different search engines to use besides Google or Wikipedia?  Let me share a few that I found more appealing and kind of fun. #1 - RTBot  - I find the search results for RTBot to be visually appealing. Here is what a search for digital storytelling would look like on RTBot. I like the small picture and short description. #2 Oolone  - This search engine gives results in a unique way. This is what Oolone looks like.  The search has boxes in the shape of a figure eight. Here is what Oolone looks like when you do a search for digital stor...