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Here are some quick tips that may help you during Remote Learning.  Have a great weekend!

Find keywords in long pages

You’re staring at a multi-page document or a website that feels like it goes on forever. You know what you’re looking for, but you don’t want to waste time scrolling and scanning. Give yourself a break and summon up a word finder tool by hitting Control + F with Windows or Command + F on Mac. This works with programs like Chrome and Word and gives you a handy search box, usually in the upper right-hand corner of the window. Now you just plug in the word or phrase you’re looking for and can go directly to it within the page.

Embrace your smartphone space bar

Keep the flow of your typing running smoothly by tapping the space bar on your smartphone keyboard twice to end a sentence. You get a period, a space, and the next letter you type will be capitalized. This can work for everything from text messaging to writing emails on both iPhone and Android devices.

Control your tabs in Chrome

Windows users are familiar with the concept of the task manager, a program that shows everything running on your computer. The Mac version is called the activity monitor. Google’s Chrome browser has a task manager of its very own and it’s a good way to keep a handle on your tabs.

If you have 30 tabs open, it can be hard to remember what’s where. Access the task manager through the settings (it’s under “more tools”) or use the shift + esc keyboard shortcut on a Windows machine. The task manager lists all your open tabs. Double-click on a tab’s description to make it pop up in view in the browser. There is also an “end process” option that lets you close tabs you no longer need or shut down a misbehaving tab.

Google your equations

You need to add up some numbers fast. What do you do? You could dig around in your desk drawer for a calculator. You could fish around on your computer for a calculator app. Or you could just use that Google search box you already have open in your browser. Google’s search box doubles as a quick and easy calculator. It’s pretty flexible about how you phrase your equations. For example, typing “12 x 2” or “12 times 2” will get you the same result. Google helpfully opens up a full in-browser calculator above the usual search results so you can keep going in your calculations.

Google’s built-in calculator can also handle some fancier equations. Try asking it for square roots or string together a series like “12 + 18 + 36 – 9.” If you get into more elaborate queries, remember to use parentheses so it knows what you’re asking. Searching for  “12 + 5 – (2 x 2)” will get the answer you’re looking for: “13.”

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We have all deleted something without trying or

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Hope this helps!

As a rule, I set the screen on my phone, iPad, and laptop to turn off rather quickly to extend my battery life.

However, now that we are learning remotely, I have had to change my settings so that the device is not continually going dark, going to sleep, or turning off.  This is extremely important during a Google Meet or streaming a video, or anytime you are not continually touching the screen.

Check the settings on your devices and extend the time. On an iPad or phone, go to settings, display, and then change auto-lock time. You can increase the time or change it to "never." 
                                          

Click for directions to change settings on iPad.

   

On a computer, you need to make the changes in settings. You should look for your power options. Each computer is different, so you may have to Google the directions for your device.

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