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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...

Google Presentations  Boost Your Knowledge with These Great Tips and Tricks One of the ways that I've been spending some of my precious time lately is creating Google presentations for a graduate class that I will be teaching this Fall as well as for the various trainings that I've been preparing for. Design and graphics have always interested me, so I love looking at ways to spruce up my presentations to add interesting elements that will make a visual impression on the audience.  So, today I have a video tutorial of five tips and tricks for Google Presentations that I think you will find useful and will add visually pleasing elements to your presentation. Enjoy!

As you may know, I'm a huge iPad user.  I absolutely love all that I can get done on an iPad and it just seems to save me time. Recently I came across this great video showing some keyboarding tips for the iPad.  I knew some of these, but not all.  If you use an iPad, it will be worth your time to watch this short video.