Leyden Techies

Here's a quick video showing how to add videos from Google Drive into Google Slides: After you place a video on a slide, you can ri...

Calling all student technology leaders!  There is now a conference just for you. What?  Student Technology Leadership Summit When? ...

A few months ago, a first group of West Leyden faculty and staff completed their 4-month journey to becoming Google Educators ( blog p...

For the past 5+ years, Leyden High School District 212 teachers and students have been using Google Apps for Education.  In 2012-2013, ...

I've been waiting for this one for a long time and it's finally available.  You can now merge cells inside tables in Google Docs.  ...

A few days ago I learned about shading alternate rows in a Google Sheet using the =ISEVEN(ROW()) formula in the Conditional Formatting tool...

I just learned from the Google Apps blog that if you use your Google+ identity in YouTube, you can restrict your videos to only those peopl...

By now, most Google Apps users have had their black menu bars removed and replaced with the new Google App Launcher (here's a great vide...

Yesterday, while cruising up I-57 back from the University of Illinois in Champaign after presenting at the AdvancEd conference , Jason...

Last week one of our English teachers contacted me with an idea, actually a challenge.  He wanted to create a working rubric that he could u...

On November 15, 2012, Google announced that Google+ became available for Google Apps for Education domains.  That was really exciting news! ...

Did you know that you can quickly search your Gmail account for messages to or from specific people? Did you know that you can search fo...

Thanks to the Free Technology for Teachers blog by Richard Byrne, I learned about the Read&Write  add-on for Google Docs.  Installing t...

On October 30, 2012 I read a blog post that announced the new Gmail compose and reply experience that will be rolled out in the near future...

Have you ever wanted to create a single Google Form that displays different questions based upon the users answers?  Check out my screencast...

I get it. We live in a time when people want information when they want it, on their terms, and that fits their timelines and needs. As th...

Many of our Leyden students have a need for accessing their Google documents on their Chromebooks when they don't have Internet access. ...

One of the side effects of going 1:1 in our district this coming year is that we are no longer providing our students with printed planners/...

Back in February I put together a post regarding using Google Forms to create a digital assignment dropbox for collecting student work ( ori...

I just came across the following presentation by Richard Byrne ( @rmbyrne ) on his Free Technology for Teachers blog.  This is a great intr...