App Highlight of the Week

App Highlight of the Week - Adobe Spark

This week's app highlight of the week is Adobe Spark. Adobe Spark is a multi-faceted tool that can be used for student presentations. When using Adobe Spark, students can create images with text overlays, page flyers, or quick videos. Adobe Spark is a powerful tool that allows for students to create meaningful projects quickly, easily, and most importantly, on their Chromebooks. The best news is, while there are free accounts available for students over the age of 13, in April of this year, schools will be offered free premium accounts with premium features, as well as a change in the policies that allow for students of all ages to use the service. You can read about some of the coming changes here.

Adobe Spark is an easy to use tool that allows for lots of creativity in the classroom. Feel free to check it out and ask questions if you have any!

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Chromebook Shortcut of the Week - Quick Google Search

So, if you took the advice of last week's 90 Second Chromebook Tip & Trick and abandoned your "Search" key in favor of Caps Lock on your Chromebook keyboard, this is still a quick way that you can search Google using this week's Shortcut of the Week. When you want to quick search Google, simply press "Ctrl + e" to focus on the URL bar at the top of the page and begin your Google Search query. It is extremely easy and fast to do!

Google Sites Updates - Align Objects and Updates about the old Google Sites

Google updated their Google Sites in the fall. As the application grows, it continues to get more and more powerful. Some of the updates since launch include the ability to use page dividers and incorporate company logos. This week, they introduced the ability to group object vertically. From the Google Updates Blog While grouping objects vertically may not see that powerful, but what it does is allow you to align the page better. From a design standpoint, it is now easier to incorporate captions for images as well as to make images and text fit better next to each other. Google's willingness to continue to develop this a great sign of the direction they are taking their web design tool. It will not be easier for students to create powerful websites to tell their stories and share their knowledge. In all of the changes, Google also announced that the end of life is coming for the old Google Sites. Google will be introducing a migration tool to allow users to migrate their w...

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