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MAYBE ONE OF YOUR STUDENTS CAN BE INSPIRED BY THESE 5TH-8TH GRADE CHILDREN!!

The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge is the nation’s premier science competition for grades 5-8. This one-of-a-kind video competition has sparked the imaginations of hundreds of thousands of students and enhanced science exploration, innovation and communication across the United States.

2016 DISCOVERY EDUCATION 3M YOUNG SCIENTIST FINAL EVENT

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 from 11:00AM - 1:00PM ET
Live from 3M's Innovation Center

THERE ARE 10 FINALISTS BUT ONLY ONE WILL BE NAMED AMERICA'S TOP YOUNG SCIENTIST!

Register for the live Broadcast

MEET THE FINALISTS BEFORE THE BIG EVENT!

The 10 finalists have been working all summer long to bring their innovative ideas to life with the help of a 3M Scientist mentor. Meet the finalists and follow their journey to the final event on theYoung Scientist Challenge blog!

BeeLine Reader

BeeLine Reader

This cool Chrome app will simplify an most web pages by removing ads and color coding text in a way that helps a reader's eyes smoothly move from the beginning of a passage to the end!

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After:

Too Many Extensions?

The Chrome Web Store has so many great extensions that enhance the functionality of the Chrome browser.  Extensions can help keep you organized, make it easier to share information, save you time, declutter websites... the list goes on.  Unfortunately, having too many extensions running can slow down your machine.

I can admit, I have way too many extensions.  I don't use all of them everyday, but I know once I delete one, I'll need it in a day or two and have to go to the store and download it again.  So they keep piling up and taking up space on my tool bar.

Introducing the Extensity extension!  (Yes, it is a little ironic that getting yet another extension will solve my problem.)

Extensity allows you to easily turn on/off extensions from your extension tool bar!  It can declutter your toolbar and give you more room to see website addresses!  

Look these AMAZING results!!! 

Before Extensity




After Extensity


The extensions are still there... within seconds I can turn on anyone I need.  They just aren't wasting space or memory when I'm not using them.  I love it!!!

Contact Groups - Gmail

Create a contact group in Gmail to easily send out emails and share google docs to groups of people.

Create a contact group:

1. On the top left of your email screen click the word Mail and change it to Contacts.
2. Under Contacts you find New Group.
3. Give the group a name.
4. The group is then listed under Contacts, click the group.
5. Click the Add People Button. 
6. Type or paste email addresses.  (Use a comma or semicolon to separate emails.)
7. Click Add.

When composing an email, simply start typing the name of your group in the To: field!

Get a list of parent/student emails from PowerTeacher to copy and paste into a Group:

1. Sign into PowerTeacher.
2. Click the Backpack next to the class you want to create a group for.
3. Click Email Addresses in the top left corner of the screen.
4. Select the students/parents.
5. Click Build List. (You can leave the delimiter type set to Existing.)
6. Copy the list from the box.
7. Find/Create the group you want to add the list to in your Contacts (See above).
8. Click the Add People Button. 
9. Ctrl+V  to paste the email addresses. 
10. Click Add.

For more detailed directions on how to group and sort contacts please visit Google's Gmail Support

Clean up your inbox!

It's the beginning of the year and time for a fresh start in your email inbox!  Clean up your inbox without deleting your emails, by using the ARCHIVE function. When you archive an email, it gets moved from your inbox to a label called "All Mail" and isn't deleted. 

Three ways to archive.
1.  Open an email.  Click the Archive button at the top of the message.



2.  In your inbox, check all the emails you'd like to archive and click the archive button towards the top of your screen.

3.  When replying to an email, use the Send & Archive button  This button both sends and archives that message at the same time!  This will save you the time of archiving it via options 1 or 2 (above) at a later time.



Turn on the send and archive feature in your email settings.




Important facts to keep in mind:

• If someone replies to a message you've archived, the message will come back to your inbox.
• Educator gmail accounts have no size limit, so don't worry about archiving too many emails.
• When you search for an email, All Mail and anything you have archived is automatically searched.
• You can move an archived email back into your inbox by opening the message and clicking "move to inbox."
• You can view your All Mail by hovering your mouse over the label list on the left side of the screen and clicking All Mail. (You may have to click MORE to see the All Mail label.)