Top 10 Easter Eggs On Google

Our Top 10 Easter Eggs On Google

By: Zachary A. 

10. Askew: your window will do just that.

9. Do A Barrel Roll: your screen will do a 360 degree turn.

8. Blink html: Search for Blink html and the results will blink at you.

7. Flip A Coin:  This one is pretty self-explanatory.

6. Roll A Dice:  This one is pretty self-explanatory too.

5. Super Mario Bros:  If you look to the left on the page, you’ll see one of the series’ iconic question mark bricks. Click it to get a special surprise.

4. Tic-Tac-Toe: If you need to kill some time with two people, Google will give you a free board for Tic-Tac-Toe.

3. Pac-Man: For the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man in 2010, Google converted its iconic Doodle into a fully functional version of the arcade game.

2. Atari Breakout: Google image search Atari breakout and find yourself in the middle of a game of Breakout.

1. Zerg Rush: Search for Zerg Rush and you can practice the strategy game by clicking on the tiny invading O's from the google logo.

 

How to Pin an App To A Task Bar

Do you want to stop going on Google Chrome and searching for something and it taking 5-10 minutes to get there. Well here's a quick tip on how to get there faster and save time.

> Press the circle button at the bottom left of your screen
>

> Find the app you want to pin
> Right click the App
>

> Press the pin to shelf option
>

> That's It it should be at your task bar

Suggestions:
> If it doesn't work come to the help to see what's wrong

How to Change Your Profile Picture

Wondering how all of those kids have changed there profile photo to something really cool? Well I will show you how to have the coolest profile picture

1. Go into google and search whatever you would like for your picture. I chose a Starbucks sign.

2. Then you have 2 choices you can either go to classroom or drive

3.If your in drive go to the top right corner and click on your profile picture

4.If your going into classroom you will click on the three lines in the top left corner

5.Then scroll all the way down to settings and click settings

6.click onto your profile photo

7.Then if you want to upload a picture press UPLOAD PICTURE , if you want it to be a picture of you click WEB CAMERA

8. Choose your photo then your done! 

ALSO: if your picture doesn't come up right away you might need to close your Chromebook and/or wait 

How to use Canva

Canva is a website that lets the user create presentations that show information with pictures. Once you sign in, you will see a screen that shows different formats you can use to create your presentation. To see more choices of formats, you press the more button. Then, you will a screen with more formats. Select the format you choose. After you choose your format, you can select the "Layouts" button on the right of the screen to select one of many layouts. After you choose your layout, you can also add elements. Some elements are grids, frames, and shapes. You can also add text boxes by pressing the "Text" button the far right. In the text section, you can choose a variety of different fonts to choose from. When you find the font you want, you click on it and the text box appears on your presentation. Another tool is background. In this section, you can select backgrounds for your presentation. The final tool you can use is uploads. Here, you can upload pictures from your computer to your presentation. To do this, you select the uploads button on the far right and then select upload your own images. This will bring up pictures from your computer that you can upload. You select the picture you want, and it will be brought up under the "Upload your own images" button. You click and hold the image and drag it to your presentation.

 Here is an example of a info graphic you can make using Canva.

How to add a link into a draft

Need that one link that will finish your project? Well I can teach you how  to add it.  You will need the Google Shorten-er.

First thing you will need to do is:

1. Find any link that you would like in your doc or slide, I'm going to chose a link of a cute puppy
2. Click the shorten-er and press COPY
3. 
4. Go into your doc and press INSERT
5. 
6. Press LINK next to where you would like the link to be
7. Paste the shorted link inside of where is says link
8. (OPTIONAL) you name the link whatever you want you can do that by going over the box that says link and name it
9. Your DONE! YAY! 

Example:
  I love Golden retrievers they are so cute look at this cute picture of them
https://goo.gl/EoCRl.  (optional) PUPPIES.

Quizlet App review

Quizlet : Flash Card and Language App to Study and Learn

Quizlet is an great app for students. The app is available online and in the apps store it is also on google play. It is free to sign up.

https://quizlet.com/goodbye

This app can used on all devices that have google play or the apple app store.

Quizlet is easy to navigate and can be used by teachers and students. There are no specific instructions on how to use Quizlet but it is very easy to figure out. Students will use this app to study to learn terms or anything they need to. You can modify the way you study easily. There are, Flash cards, learning, Spelling, Test, Match and Gravity. Flash cards is very simple and looks like a flashcard.

You can flip the card around anytime you want to. There is an example to the right









The only down side to this app, is you have to type exactly what the answer is or you will get it wrong.l You can override it though in learn but not in the test. You can customize the way you study, you can either do terms or definitions first. For test you can turn of written so you just have matching, true false, and multiple choice. Or you can turn those off. You can also adjust how many questions there are.

★★★★★ = Superior
★★★★ = Very good
★★★ = Good
★★ = Fair
★ = Poor

Over all I give this app 4 stars
★★★★
Quizlet is a very good app over all.

Quizlet can be used for the following classes

• English
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
• World Languages
• Health/PE
• Art
• Computers
• Other

Quizlet can be used for the following

• Remember information
• Understand information
• Organize information
• Analyze information 
• Evaluate information
• Create some type of product

Quizlet is a great app for studying, and can be use internationally.