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If there is a group of people you contact regularly it makes sense to create a contact group in Gmail to save a few minutes. To begin, log in to your school Gmail account. Click on the waffle icon to the right of the screen and select Contacts. Scroll down a b...

Email groups are great, but they can sometimes be… a little much… Google allows you to set your subscription settings on a per-group basis. This means that you can stay in a group, meaning that you can email that group, but you don’t have to receive all of th...

You should now see a new icon at the top right corner of your laptop (Linux only). This is your PaperCut Print Deploy Client. This nifty little tool allows you to install available printers on your device, and it will treat those printers as local connections....

The new local print deploy system allows you to use printers outside of Chrome. The negative, I guess, about this is that you are required to put your password into the print system before your items print. This isn’t a huge deal because you can save it. Here ...

The color copiers offer two delivery options for scanned documents. Scanned documents can be sent by email or saved directly to Google Drive in PDF format. To get started, use your badge to log on to the copier. From the home screen, click the Scan button. Cho...

In some previous articles, we have shown how to use AI to accomplish research and analysis-style tasks. This is a hugely helpful style of AI technology, but there is another, more immediately impressive (and somewhat terrifying) form of AI as well. Where all ...

Curipod is a unique tool that allows teachers to combine the power of AI with the tool feature set of something like kahoot. In this introduction, we will use curipod to generate a custom lesson on a novel. We will utilize the provided activities to get bette...

NotebookLM is a free, AI-powered tool from Google designed to help users interact with and learn from their documents. Described as a “personalized AI research assistant,” NotebookLM summarizes uploaded sources and generates insights into their content. It wor...

Ohhhh Boy! This one is fun! Today, we will be looking at AI Studio, a Google product, sort of a user interface, for the Gemini AI platform. In this demo, I will be using my microphone to interact with Gemini in real-time. I’ll have it observe, analyze, and ...

Canva is a free, online resource that has been around for about 10 years and is probably best known as a very powerful desktop publishing tool. However, it can also be used to make things like videos, gifs, websites, booklets, multimedia presentations, socia...

Newsletters have been a great way to communicate for ages! With digital design and delivery, print-based newsletters have gone out of fashion, and digital newsletter platforms like smore have become popular. Check out Mr. Unger’s Tiger Weekly and Ms. Webb’s H...

This is pretty huge news if you are someone that loves Canva (or hates it) but feels like sometimes it is a little too… limiting. Recently Canva purchased the Affinity company. Affinity is company that produces the most comprehensive and direct competitor to ...

Whether scanned from the copier, downloaded from the Internet, or received in an email, PDF files are by design easy to open but difficult to edit. This article demonstrates two of the many tools available to make changes to PDF files. ilovepdf.com is a power...

As you have no doubt heard from Mrs. Ward, there will be some new tools available for the ATLAS tests moving forward. These include a powerful text-to-speech utility and a versatile math equation editor. In preparation for these testing tools, the state has ...

Click the arrow to expand each topic. Creating an escWorks Account Navigate to escWorks: Shoebox Click on “Click here to create and account” Fields with an * are required Choose Northwest Education Service Cooperative as your organization Choose West Fork Scho...

If a student is missing the Secure Test Browser for ATLAS testing, follow these instructions. Press the Windows key on your keyboard Type in chocolatey You should see “Chocolatey GUI” as an option. Click on it. It takes a little time for this program to open....

The secure testing browser is rather picky about programs that have been opened. On a lot of occasions, you will get a message that the student may not test until Snipping Tool and or Google Chrome is closed. This should be simple… Just close the program. Bu...

If you are a Virtual Arkansas student and need to install the Respondus Lockdown Browser, follow the steps below. Press the Windows key on your keyboard Type in chocolatey You should see “Chocolatey GUI” as an option. Click on it. It takes a little time for ...