If you’ve taken Northern Buckeye’s Google Certified Educator Level 2 cohort, you’ve learned about Google Scholar. If you haven’t taken our cohort, it is likely you’ve never heard of Scholar. Allow me to enlighten you.
So what is Google Scholar? Well, Google has this to say:
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.
At Northern Buckeye, I’m the design guru among our team. We often joke about “Chris-ifying” things because I am so passionate about how things look and feel.
Last week, I wrote about the Lexend series of fonts which have been specially designed for increased readability. This week, I’d like to share some thoughts on color. Even as a designer, I have trouble with color. I don’t know what looks good together or which colors I should use on a project. I am going to showcase a few tools to help you with your color choices.
Here is a sobering statistic:
How do we address this problem? One way is in our font choices.
In 1999, Bonnie Shaver-Troup, an educational therapist, observed that reading issues hid students’ true capability and intelligence.
She theorized that student reading performance could be improved by:
Shaver-Troup, along with educator and type designer Thomas Jockin, coordinated their efforts around one simple idea:
| “A font, much like the prescription in a pair of eyeglasses, should change based on the reader’s unique needs.” |
Shaver-Troup and Jockin collaborated in the development of seven fonts which provide for improvement in reading performance.
If you’ve been teaching remotely, you’ve probably done a bunch of Google Meets or Zoom calls. Have you ever wondered how you look and sound to your participants? This is now very easy, assuming you’re using Google Meet. Check out the new “green room” feature which makes it easier to check everything is working properly, and you look presentable, before you actually join a video meeting.
You can access this feature before joining a meeting. Just click the “Check your audio and video button.”
Although Google Sites is very simple to learn and use, that simplicity comes at a price – limited customization. Until very recently, you used the Themes panel to choose the look of your site. You could choose a color option and font for the entire site, but that’s it.
No more! 🙌
Recall that when working with text you can choose from Normal text, Title, Heading, Subheading, and small to format your text boxes. That has not changed.
What has changed is that you can now choose text options just like you can in any other Google app.
