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Joan works and plays on the web and is happy to speak to groups or individuals about the web's communication possibilities
Tag Archives: Gmail
gMail – Useful Features
gMail is my favorite mail application, as I have blogged about here previously: http://jnthweb.ca/2010/08/gmail-other-email-addresses/ http://jnthweb.ca/2010/08/why-gmail-labels-not-folders/ There are other reasons in other posts, but here is an excellent succinct list of why and how gmail is useful: http://www.thethinkingstick.com/5-gmail-tips-for-teachers
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Posted in blogging, communication, email, gmail, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged email, Gmail, teaching, web tools
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My Samsung Galaxy Tab
Does it make me disloyal to my love for Apple? I love my MacBook Air, but I bought myself a Samsung Galaxy Tab. My friends say I’m betraying Mac, but here’s what I said to them: Well I do feel a little disloyal, but I’ve always been deeply fond of Google, and the Tab has View Post
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Posted in communication, computers, email, gmail, Internet_use, Macs, reading_online, social media, social_web, technology, Twitter, webtools
Tagged Android, calendar, cloud, email, GalaxyTab, Gmail, Google, Tablet, Twitter
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Sending Audio Feedback: Audacity and gMail
Sometimes it quicker and/or more personal to send recorded audio messages. As a teacher, I’ve sent emails using audio apps on my iphone, but it takes a long time to send and it’s a bit tricky to add email addresses. Today I tried using the free, downloadable audio software, Audacity, and the free richly-featured web View Post
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Posted in e-learning, email, gmail, howto, Internet_use, learning 2.0, mobile_learning, Skitch, tips, web2.0, webtools
Tagged cloud, giving_feedback, Gmail, learning
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Gmail Labs
I use most of the extensions in the video below. You might find them helpful too. via @LuigiBenetton
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gMail and CloudMagic for Searching
Now that you’re using gmail, do you ever find yourself writing a message, but needing information from a previous message or from your Contacts? It can be annoying to save the current message as a draft, (1) or open a separate copy, (2) just so you can search (3) for what you need. There’s a View Post
View PostWhy gMail? Labels Not Folders
Labels in gMail Most email applications let you set up folders for storing messages you want to save. You have to decide what category your message fits into, if you want to keep it (but not in the Inbox), make sure you have a folder with that name, and store the message there. Then, when View Post
View PostWhy gMail? Other eMail Addresses
Years ago I had a Hotmail address as well as an address based on my service provider and one for the institution I worked for. Three email addresses: one I could open on any wired computer, as long as I remembered the exact address and my password for it (didn’t always happen), another I could View Post
View PostgMail Labs – and “Canned Responses”
Sending the Same Message with Small Changes When you want to send messages that are almost exactly the same to many people, but you want to make small changes, you could copy & paste and alter and send to individuals. Or you could use the Google Labs feature, Canned Responses. Google Labs is found by clicking View Post
View PostMore gMail: Sending to Many People
Sometimes we need to send a message to many people, and gmail makes that easy. Here are two situations: Sending the same message to a group of people and respecting their privacy; and Sending the same message with some small changes for each person in a group of people. Sending the Same Message to a View Post
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