More Chrome Extensions

Most of us do most of our digital work on the web these days, and Google Chrome is the heavy lifter. Chrome extensions add functionality and save me a few hundred mouse clicks a day.  I've recently added 3 extensions to my favorites list:

Unsplash Instant  displays a beautiful high-resolution photo each time you open a new tab, which is free to download and use however you want.  The images make great desktop wallpaper as well as gmail and calendar themes. (Just showing off my almost "inbox zero" 😁).

Make GIF Video Capture allows you to create GIF animations from any HTML5 video inside of your Chrome browser.  It adds an additional button to in the YouTube video player.  GIFs are images that can be inserted into gmails and google docs.

Anyone Can View is a Chrome Extension from Alice Keeler that allows you to change the share settings in an open Google Doc, Sheet, Slide, or Drawing to Anyone Can View and automatically copies the sharing URL to the clipboard. 

Text Rotation Comes to Google Sheets

Now you can easily rotate text in Google Sheets cells.  Here is where the new tool resides in the Sheets toolbar:

You can choose a variety of rotation angles, pictured here, or create custom angles.

Photos for Class

Photos for Class is a safe place for students to search for age-appropriate images licensed by Creative Commons for public use. In addition, downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms.