Hi , we are winding down the school year. 😢The 2022-2023 membership expires June 30th. If you are paying monthly your membership of course continues🎉.

☀️ What things can I offer you over the summer?

I am finishing up a book on teaching in an age of AI and what shifts this is going to mean for us as teachers. I'll be doing some workshops on changing the question, modifying prompts in ChatGPT, and more! Taking requests, please fill out the weekly check in. I would love to say hi!

Here is a list of what you need to know and you can scroll down to get more details.

1. 🖊️SIGN IN with the passcode alpaca
2. 💧 Drip Workshop: 6 Ways for Students to use Google Sheets
3. 🟢Tip #1: Change Your Chrome Theme
4. 🌟Tip #2: End of the Year Word Search
5. ☑️Check alicekeelermembership.com with passcode alpaca for resources & events.

5. 🏢 JOIN Office Hours with Alice: Sunday May 28th 2-2:30pm PST--Google Meet Link

6. 💻JOIN Follow up Coding with ChatGPT Workshop Sunday May 28th 12:45-1:15PM PST
(Google Meet Link)

7.🖥️ Webinar Recording: End of the Year: Cleaning Up Google Drive with Alice Keeler

Presentation Slides

8.🖥️ Webinar Recording: Bonus Week 5: ChatGPT and Google Apps Script with Alice Keeler

9.🟣Office Hours with Marcia MENTORS: Tuesday May 30th 4:30-5:00pm PST Google Meet

10.📅Be added to the events calendar for the week.

Change Your Chrome Theme

Change Theme Video Tutorial

✅Odds are you have more than one Google Account. Your personal and your school at least. 😊The best way to manage you multiple accounts is by adding Chrome logins. This allows you to be in both accounts at the same time without conflicts. However, it can be confusing as to which account you are in.

🔥One of my tricks to handle this is to change the Chrome Theme.

⚙️Chrome Settings

⬆️In the upper right of Chrome click on the 3 dots and go to “Settings.”

🖱️Scroll down to “Appearance” and click on “Themes” and “Open Chrome Web Store.”

🟩Select a Theme

🆘For each of your accounts select a different theme. 👀This makes it easy to know at a glance which account you are using.

🔚End of the Year Word Search🔎!

alicekeeler.com/wordsearch

I have been asked by several teachers, what is something fun they can do for the end of the year? While there are lots of good choices, I have made updates to my Word Search Add-on. These are intended to be just for fun as something to do when students have finished all of their work. I have made some improvements to the code to make it work a little better.

👉Directions to Create Your Own End of Year Fun Word Search

🏁Start by making a copy of the template Word Search Add-on by Alice Keeler

👍Up to 25 Words

⌨️You can have up to 25 words in your word search. Paste or type your words into column B on the word list sheet.

✅Use the Menu

⏭️Notice next to the help menu is a custom menu called “Make Word Search.”🙂 You will want to authorize the Add-on. Since you made a copy of the spreadsheet you are the owner of the sheet and the only person who can access your files is YOU. It is safe to approve the permissions.

🎨Create Puzzle

I have updated some ways the puzzle is created to make it easier to place the words. Select “Create Puzzle” in the menu and sit back as it tries to automatically place the words. It chooses a random spot in the grid to place the words so if there is not room for the word it will populate a list of words that did not make the puzzle.

❓Test for Errors

After creating the puzzle if you do not think it placed enough words you can use “Create Puzzle” again to wipe out the puzzle and start over. If you are satisfied with the initial draft choose “Test for Errors” in the menu. This will attempt to place the words that could not be placed previously. This is a new feature. It again is looking for random locations so the randomly chosen spot may or may not have room. Keep running Test for Errors as many times as you wish.

🌟Try “Test for Errors” multiple times.

☑️Manually Enter Words

After I have run “Test for Errors” a few times I just put the words onto the puzzle myself. This allows me to make some of the words cross at a common letter or to go diagonal if I choose. Use the caps lock key as you place the letters.

Choose “Update Puzzle” to send the new letters you adjusted to the puzzle sheet.

🖨️Print Puzzle

Choose “Print Puzzle” from the menu to create a printer friendly version. Control P will let you print. Be sure to change to portrait instead of the default landscape paper size.

You can also copy and paste the puzzle into a Google Doc to allow you to create headers and a place for the student’s name.