2. 10. The Archive Feature
This feature within Gmail allows emails to be archived. This removes the
selected email from the inbox, but still allows access to it.
This is an excellent feature for educators. There are
numerous emails received on a daily basis, and many
need to be kept as a reference or to be accessed at a
later date, but storing them in the inbox can become
overwhelming, and many times the important emails may
accidentally be deleted. This feature is a great way to
save important emails without overloading your inbox!
3. 9. The School Year Calendar
Template
This feature allows quick access to the school year calendar.
Here is yet another feature to help save the valuable
time of an educator. This feature allows quick access to
the school year calendar - instead of having to search
through the district website, find the paper version, or
try to remember where the calendar is stored on the
computer, this feature keeps it right at your fingertips.
4. 8. Google Notebook
This feature allows the user to take notes.
The Google Notebook is a great tool for educators to
use to keep track of all of their important notes. With
the many meetings that educators are expected to
attend, there can often be an overload of information.
The Google Notebook can be used to take notes and
keep them all stored together, in a convenient location.
5. 7. Multiple Calendars
This feature allows the user to create multiple calendars.
This is a great feature to help keep everything
organized - but still separated. Educators can use this
to create a school calendar, a personal calendar, and any
other type of calendar that may be needed. This is a
great way to stay organized but to keep home and work
separated!
6. 6. Chrome Pass
This creates a list of all the passwords that are stored in Google Chrome.
With all of the different websites that educators use in
the classroom comes all the different passwords to
access those sites. Chrome Pass keeps a running list of
all of the passwords that are stored in Google Chrome -
which means no more scrambling around trying to find
the password to the site that you need for the day's
lesson.
7. 5. Collaborate on Group Projects
This allows individuals to collaborate on projects in Google Docs.
This is an excellent tool for educators - especially
educators who collaborate on creating documents. This
could be used to collaborate on lesson plans, the
creation of the beginning of the year handbook, the
presentation for the principal and many more ideas!
Instead of staying after school to collaborate, this
feature allows you to go home and edit the document on
your own time! Then others can instantly see your
changes.
8. 4. Create graphs with spreadsheets
This allows users to create graphs using data entered in spreadsheets.
This tool can be used in a few different ways. It can be
used in the classroom during a unit on teaching graphing
and it can also be used to present data from your
classroom or school. Instead of having to create your
own graph, this feature allows you to enter in the data
and then the graphs are created for you.
9. 3. Consolidate email accounts
This feature allows you to combine all of your email accounts into gmail.
Instead of spending extra time checking the numerous
email accounts that you may have, this feature allows
you to consolidate all of your email accounts into Gmail,
so now you only have to check one email account!
10. 2. Google Fusion Tables
This features allows users to upload data, visualize the data using charts,
share the data with others and even merge data from multiple tables.
This is a great tool that can be used during data chats.
The data can be uploaded and shared with the
participants in the data chat. The ability to merge data
is also useful - you could share your specific class data
and then merge it with the data of the other classes in
your grade level to share grade level data as a whole.
This will save time and help make data chats run more
smoothly.
11. 1. Never Forget to Attach a File
This features notifies you if you have typed something about an
attachment in the body of the email, but have not actually attached
anything.
This feature will definitely help eliminate the time
spent re-sending an email because you forgot the
attachment. It will also help save on the
embarrassment of having the recipients of the email
remind you that you didn't attach anything!
