I often notice the technology that is used in movies and TV shows – especially when there is a classroom in the scene.
Yesterday, while watching Wonder, something caught my eye. Even Auggie’s private school, Beecher Prep, has left SMART Boards behind!
It’s time for a video tribute to SMART so we can say our final goodbyes.
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Oh! Here is one more geeky thing I caught in Wonder. Auggie is playing Minecraft on a Chromebook!
Auggie, how did you do that? Did you put Linux on your Chromebook?
UPDATE 3/24/18: Get New Sign in Screens – Google has updated the Chromebook sign in screens with a new look. The style used in the old screens are still used for signing in to the Chrome browser, so I made a few adjustments to them so they can be used to create custom Chrome sign in documents. I have created new Chromebook sign in screens and you can find them here.
I can never get good pictures of the Chromebook sign in screens so I decided to recreate them.
The screens are:
They were all created in Google Drawings so you can edit the text to display your school’s domain.
See them all here.
Let’s say you need a long series of numbers in your spreadsheet and you are trapped on a Chromebook. Yes, I could drag down to fill but this takes way too long if you have a long list of numbers.
I hate that Google Sheets cannot do what Excel can do below:
Fortunately, there is Text Mechanic– a website that provides a collection of text manipulation tools that work in your browser. I used the Generate List of Sequential Numbers tool get the series of numbers I needed.
From here, I can copy and paste my list into Google Sheets and start calculating.
Text Mechanic has some other great tools too. Take a look at Find and Replace Text and Add/Remove Line Breaks. They have been a big help.
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