Lemon Tech Tidbits

From the blogpost by Alice Keeler comes a very detailed article about using File - Email Collaborators when working on a document, slide, or sheet in a large group of people. This allows you to send a specific and specialized email to all of the people in your group to assign tasks or to provide extra instructions. In the blog, Alice explains how she uses this feature to make sure students check the feedback she leaves for them on their assigned work.

From G Suite Learning Center comes a handy guide to all of the features of GMail…. a cheat sheet if you will! And not only is there just one, but there are also several designed to simplify each feature available on the app to make your life easier. One of my favorites is the ability to add labels so all incoming email messages are automatically sorted for me. Another is the ability to quickly recall an email I have sent. These are just two tips I like to use every day. If you would like to see more tips, take a look at this page from G Suite. Along with the cheat sheets, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has a blog post titled 4 Important Gmail Features for Teachers. These include the following: Do more inside your inbox Integrate with G Suite apps Smart replay and nudging Confidential mode Each feature is explained in detail on the blog post so check it out.

Gmail:  creating groups, adding labels, and using filters Creating email groups in Gmail Creating and Adding Labels to Emails

8 TIPS FOR COMMUNICATING WITH PARENTS USING EMAIL by Alice Keeler The other day, I was going through all of my notes from blog posts, tweets, facebook post, etc. about technology that I was too busy to read but still looked interesting. This was one of those posts and I feel it is very timely to share it now that school has officially started for most of us. In this post, Alice Keeler explains 8 simple tips to remember whenever we are communicating with parents by email. These tips include: Using BBC for the addresses to help protect privacy Using a specific subject line Putting important information in the body of the email instead of relying on links Using Google Keep to help create the body of the email Eliminating or reducing attachments Platform independent communication How to include a Google Form And another hint about using Google Forms To read more about the tips as well as full explanations, visit her blog post at: https://goo.gl/dEHh82 ...