Updated to cover the new features, Exploring Chromebook is the perfect companion for your Chromebook. Written by best-selling technology author, lecturer, and computer trainer Kevin Wilson, Exploring Chromebook is packed with step-by-step instructions, full color photos, illustrations, helpful tips and video demos. Updated for 2020, Exploring Chromebook will help you : Setting up your Chromebook Configuring your Chromebook Transferring data from your old machine Setting up email and social media accounts Bluetooth devices and printers Connecting to Wifi and the internet Chromebook navigation with touch gestures Using Gmail, Chrome browser, calendar, contacts Using Google Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides Video chat with Hangouts Editing photos Downloading music, films, and TV programs Installing and Using Android Apps Installing and Using Linux Apps and more... In addition, you will learn how to make the most of the new features of Chrome OS on the Chromebook with clear explanations and video demos to help you along the way. Finally, maintenance tips to help you keep your device running smoothly complete this invaluable guide. You'll want to keep this edition handy as you make your way around your new Chromebook.
We've all been there before, staring at a computer screen with no idea what to do - don't worry Understanding Google Docs is here to help. Written by best-selling technology author, lecturer, and computer trainer Kevin Wilson, Understanding Google Docs is packed with easy to follow instructions, photos, illustrations, helpful tips and video demos. Updated to cover the latest version of Google Docs, this guide will show you how to: Start Google Docs and find your way around navigation menus Format text: bold, italic, underlined, strike, and super/sub script Align, highlight and change text colour Cut, copy, paste and using the clipboard Use headers, footers, and columns Insert page numbers, and contents pages Add page and section breaks Adjust line spacing, and tab stops, as well as bullet and numbered lists Convert documents to other formats such as PDF or Microsoft Word Share your documents, print them out, or email them as attachments. Collaborate with other users and work on group projects with collaboration features Insert wordart, drawings, charts, tables, equations and special characters Add images, crop, wrap text and use effects Check spelling and grammar Improve your work with dictionary define and lookup features Expand the functionality of Google Docs using Addons Take Google Docs with you on your tablet and work on your documents anywhere You'll want to keep this edition handy as you make your way around Google Docs. Have Fun!
As remote work has become routine, cloud-based technology tools have become increasingly necessary to communicate with other library staff and with faculty and staff to continue providing seamless and uninterrupted access to library resources and collections for our campus community. Cloud-based technology tools such as Google Forms and Google Sheets are used to gather faculty requests for collection development, tools such as Tableau are used to illustrate material budget balances, and platforms such as Trello have been adopted to track subscription renewal cycles and manage other projects. This guide discusses the benefits of using these powerful cloud-based and little to no additional cost technology tools through the lens of a particular area in librarianship such as documentation, data and project management, communication, data storage, and data visualization. While the real-world examples provided throughout focus on technical services staff operations, specifically acquisitions and electronic collection management, each tool’s features and use cases are transferable among all areas of librarianship. This guide provides insights into how collaborative, dynamic, and accessible these cloud-based solutions are for a technologically shifting workplace as well as considers the challenges to adopting cloud-based solutions such as administrative buy-in, aversion to change, and steeper learning curves as well. Readers will gain practical experiential examples that have been instrumental in creating efficiencies in collection management workflows for technical services staff. The use cases illustrated exemplify enhancements that librarians can incorporate into their own collection management practices to further engage with their colleagues, their patrons, and their larger communities more effectively and efficiently.
This new book written by the developers of R Markdown is an essential reference that will help users learn and make full use of the software. Those new to R Markdown will appreciate the short, practical examples that address the most common issues users encounter. Frequent users will also benefit from the wide ranging tips and tricks that expose ‘hidden’ features, support customization and demonstrate the many new and varied applications of the software. After reading this book users will learn how to: Enhance your R Markdown content with diagrams, citations, and dynamically generated text Streamline your workflow with child documents, code chunk references, and caching Control the formatting and layout with Pandoc markdown syntax or by writing custom HTML and LaTeX templates Utilize chunk options and hooks to fine-tune how your code is processed Switch between different language engineers to seamlessly incorporate python, D3, and more into your analysis
Take the pain out of dealing with files and folders Version 2.0, updated May 23, 2023 Your Apple devices contain an overwhelming number of files and folders, and as these items accumulate, they create more work for you. Does your file management system involve throwing everything on the desktop and then pawing through it laboriously when you need to find something? Do you even have a system? There’s a better way. This book helps you organize, search, and clean up the files on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad, providing practical steps and realistic strategies to save time, reduce clutter, and decrease stress.n Apple users have fantastic tools at their disposal for using, creating, and editing files of all kinds, but few of us have any real strategy for naming, organizing, or tagging those files—making them increasingly difficult to find later on. In this book, veteran technology author Jeff Carlson helps you make sense of what could be millions of files on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad so that you can spend less time hunting for things and more time doing useful work (or having fun). Jeff starts by helping you set appropriate file management goals and develop overall strategies that fit your needs and preferences. Then he gets into the details of how to use the Finder (on a Mac), the Files app (in iOS and iPadOS), and third-party tools to make sense of your files and folders and easily find what you're looking for. This book covers topics such as: • How to keep important items in sync among your devices • Choosing when to use internal storage vs. external storage (such as an external hard drive, a NAS, or the cloud) • Whether and how to use iCloud Drive to sync your files, including Desktop and Documents folders • How to create shortcuts to your favorite files and folders • Understanding how the macOS folder hierarchy works • The best ways to use the desktop • What you should consider when creating a folder hierarchy • Why and how to use tags to categorize files • How you can automatically sort, rename, and file items on your Mac • Ways you can collaborate with others on the same files and folders • When to consider third-party information management apps (such as DEVONthink) • How to find files and folders with Spotlight in macOS, iOS, and iPadOS • Alternative search tools you might want to consider • How to work your way through a long backlog of unsorted (or poorly sorted) files • Techniques for encrypting sensitive files (and other data) • Ways to free up storage space If you're struggling with file management, this book will help you get a grip on the process—and get your devices to do more of the hard work for you.
Get the most out of your Google Chromebook Chromebook For Dummies walks you through setting up your Chromebook, transitioning from traditional computers, customizing a Chromebook to fit your needs, navigating the many apps and their uses, and applying advanced settings and features. This book documents the features of all Chromebooks, approaching them from the point of view of a smart person who is intimidated by the technology. Offers extensive and practical information Covers all portable computers powered by Chrome OS Helps make it easy to drive these fast, user-friendly devices Includes coverage of the latest features in the Chrome operating system You’ll end up keeping this book close at hand, referring to it often as you explore the features of your Chromebook.
This compact but complete guide shows that less is more—with fewer extraneous details getting in the way of students trying to learn on the run, it allows them to focus on the most important principles of effective technical communication. The Concise Guide takes a rhetorical approach to technical communication; instead of setting up a list of rules that should be applied uniformly to all writing situations, it introduces students to the bigger picture of how the words they write can affect the people intended to read them. Assignments and exercises are integrated throughout to reinforce and test knowledge.
Master a Mac without jargon and complications. Once you go Mac, you never go back. And if you have this book, you’ll be more than happy to never go back. In The Ultimate Mac User Book, we’ve made a bold attempt to unveil an ideal Mac setup that works for anyone. Whether you’re switching from Windows or want to upgrade your knowledge of macOS, this is for you Here’s what you’ll learn from the book: - The anatomy of Mac’s interface. How to set up your new Mac for years of use. - Basic and advanced shortcuts for all jobs on Mac. - Alternatives to popular Windows apps. - Ready-to-use workflows for writers, designers, developers, students, as well as people of any profession who want to hit new productivity milestones on Mac. - 20 hacks every seasoned Mac user should be using (but only a few actually do) in the bonus chapter. Reliable and intuitive, Macs still require a certain level of tech fluency. The family of Apple’s Macintosh operating systems is very versatile, with tons of features and enhancements built on top of each other. Navigating through all of them can be complicated. Especially if you’re a new user. Especially if you have no time to figure out how things work — you just want them to work. Hope we’ll solve the problem for you with this book.
Do you want to know how Instagram really works and what mindset you must have to succeed in this platform? If you just starting reading through this guide and are thinking that your business isn’t an eCommerce business and so Instagram isn’t the place for you, think again. Remember, the key proposition that Instagram brings is visualization. Consider these examples: 1. You’re a real estate agent and want to highlight the newest mountain home that you have on the market 2. You are a world-class hospital that just released a new mother’s ward with beautiful birthing and stay suites with a spa-like feel 3. You’re a restaurant owner and want to highlight your savory and mouthwatering specials each week The above examples are all situations where nothing is actually being transacted online, but the business is building brand awareness and drumming up interest so that the consumer will visit their website, or pick up the phone, to learn more. The mysterious Instagram algorithm While we’ll never know exactly how Instagram has weighted the various data points that they put into their algorithm, we do know that Instagram’s back-end technology now focuses on relevancy, serving up the posts that are most likely to relate to certain users based on their activity on the site. So, every time a user clicks through a post, or spends a certain amount of time looking at a certain influencer, Instagram is capturing that data in some way, and building it into their engine to ensure that posts that users won’t care about are less likely to show up in their feed. We do know, however, that Instagram is looking at the following: ● Timely content - This is all about recency, meaning if a user hasn’t logged in for a while, they won’t have to scroll through outdated (and no longer relevant) posts. They’ll be shown timely content that matters to them. ● Interest - This is really the secret sauce, as Instagram is paying attention, and will serve content that it believes the user will be interested in. ● Relationships - Instagram knows what photos users tag, and where they comment. So, if a user has interacted in some way with certain brands in the past, they are far more likely to be served content from that brand, or similar brands, in the future. For marketers, this is a great thing. It means that as Instagram learns more about your brand, your posts and advertisements are more likely to get in front of your niche, or target audience. A few notes about Instagram Shopping With the release of Instagram Shopping in late 2016, Instagram literally turned their platform into an online marketplace. While it is still a common practice to include website links to your business site, and even to a product page, now it is possible to allow the customer to transact directly on the Instagram platform. For businesses that want to enable the Shopping capability, they need to meet the following requirements: ● You must have an Instagram business profile ● That business profile needs to be connected to a Facebook catalog ● Your company’s registered headquarters location must be located in one of the Instagram approved countries ● Items for sale must be physical goods that comply with the trading guideline and terms of use set forth by Instagram As this Instagram Marketing Guide is intended as a resource for those getting started with Instagram marketing, we will not be providing a deep dive of the Instagram Shopping capability. Here is a Preview of What You Will Get: ⁃ A Full Book Summary ⁃ An Analysis ⁃ Fun quizzes ⁃ Quiz Answers ⁃ Etc Get a copy of this summary and learn about the book.
The way students learn changes when they have access to digital tools. The Digital Classroom demonstrates that using technology to enhance students’ learning is not dependent on a specific learning management system or software – it is about changing the pedagogy with the help of an arsenal of useful tools and methods. This practical book introduces easy to use methods to all teachers in digital classrooms with the intention to make it simple, accessible, and achievable for everyone. It is not only about the tools, and the how and why, but also about changing the pedagogy making the learning more relevant to the students. When you open the classroom to the rest of the world, the teacher becomes more important than ever. Topics in the book include: Technology and deeper learning Social media in the global classroom Building a personal learning network The flipped classroom and cooperative learning The use of iPads in primary and middle school Teaching with videogames Special education Digital citizenship Digital tools can play a key role in making learning happen and what the teachers know about the use of technology is key. The Digital Classroom will be of great interest to teachers and trainee teachers who wish to develop their digital competency by using the book as part of their professional learning.
