Google Café

Cooked up by your SDPC Media Specialists

Today's Specials:

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Docs, Sheets & Slides Smorgasbord

Flavorful Photos
Fresh Forms
Savory Sites
Tasty Translations
Enticing Extensions

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Docs, Sheets & Slides Smorgasbord

Create, collaborate, share! From à la carte basic starters to more advanced specialty tools and techniques, cooking up documents, spreadsheets and presentations has never been easier! In the end, you’ll leave with some sweet tips to add flair to your Google recipe box!

Sample These Tasty Treats:

Top Tips and Add-ons for Google
The More button
Revision History
Forcing a copy
Headings
Adding Google fonts to My Fonts
Creating a table of contents
How to find and install add-ons to Docs:
Doc Tools
EasyBib
Speech Recognition
Styles
Change Case

Full recipes at http://drive.google.com

Docs tutorials and tips: Google Docs Help

Sheets tutorials and tips: Google Sheets Help

Slides tutorials and tips: Google Slides Help

Chef: Leanne Broome, Clemson Elementary School

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Flavorful Photos

Cook up some visual excitement by mixing pictures, apps, and more to capture and share unique moments with diverse audiences! Never lose a photo again, thanks to Google Photos:

Learn the correct settings
Work with photos and albums
Discover sharing options
See the search feature in action
Meet the Assistant
Create animations, collages or movies

Full recipes at http://photos.google.com

Tutorials and tips at Google Photos Help

Chef: Paige Cochrane, Easley High School

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Fresh Forms

Wish you could keep track of who’s entering/leaving your classroom?
Need to give and grade a quick quiz?
Want students to participate in an opinion poll?
Need to collect and compile information?

Google Forms is a quick and easy way to accomplish these tasks and more. The Fresh Forms station in the Google Café will focus on designing a form that you can use as a sign in/sign out method. We’ll look at how to create the form, then we’ll look at the data collected and analyze responses.

Full recipes at http://forms.google.com

Tutorials and tips at Google Forms Help

Chef: Karen Williamson, Pickens High School

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Savory Sites

The new Google Sites: creating a website has never been this easy! Just use these simple ingredients!

Begin with a clean page
Add generous helpings of text, images, URLS, or uploads
Spice it up with Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, or Charts
Garnish with videos, maps, or calendars
Share, preview and publish so everyone can enjoy your creation!

Full recipes at http://sites.google.com (Be sure to follow the link to the NEW Sites)

Tutorials and tips at: Google Sites Help

Chef: Christina Connell, Gettys Middle School

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Tasty Translations

How do you say . . . ? Learn the basics of Google Translate online and on the app so you can keep the conversation going! Translate documents, websites and common phrases, and learn to use the listening feature to test your skills in a new language.