Photogenic
Are your photos turning out kind of blurry? Perhaps you need to wipe off this part of your phone.
What is the lens?
On Macs, Windows PCs & Chromebooks, you can make your cursor easier to see by making it bigger in this setting.
What is accessibility?
On a PC, hold down the Windows key and V to see a history of things you've done this to.
What is copied?
Need to type a ➗ symbol? Use this kind of character.
What is emoji?
To avoid accidentally sending an incomplete email, compose your entire message before adding these.
What are recipients?
When taking this kind of photo, it usually looks better if you snap the photo while you are looking at the camera instead of looking at yourself.
What is a selfie?
Make it easy for others to contact you a QR code. You prefill the address and optionally prefill the subject and message. Go to goqr.me and choose this as the QR code type.
What is email?
Hold down this key while pressing Enter/Return when at the end of a line within a bulleted list. This drops the text to the next line without adding a bullet in front of it.
What is Shift?
Making a document for students to fill in? Before distributing to students, complete it yourself to make sure there's enough space for each one of these.
What is a response or answer?
Put your hand on this body part to determine if you're whispering or not. If you feel vibrations, you're talking. If you don't, you're whispering.
What is throat?
When posing for a photo, try saying this body part that that has the same first three letters as "cheese."
What is "cheeks"?
To make multi-word hashtags more legible, consider using a typographical convention that uses capital letters inside closed compound words. The convention is named after this animal with a hump.
Examples: #TipTuesday #EdTech #TeacherTwitter
What is a camel?
(CamelCase)
If a Chromebook doesn't have a Delete Forward key (Del or ⌦), which erases characters to the right of the cursor, you can hold down the Alt key and this key.
What is Backspace?
Before students start searching the internet, have a class discussion to develop a list of these.
What are search queries?
CamelCamelCamel is a price tracker that can alert you when prices drop on this website.
What is Amazon?
(Use the website or install the browser add-on.)
Always referring to a schedule, map or other info? Set a photo or a screenshot and make it this screen on your device.
What is lock?
In most cases when voice typing (like in Google Docs or on an iPhone/iPad), saying these two words is like pressing the Return or Enter key to add a line break.
What is "New Line"?
Editing a doc or webpage and pressing Enter/Return leaves an unwanted line space or submits what you’ve typed? Trying holding down this key with Enter/Return instead.
What is Shift?
Making a Venn diagram? Instead of using overlapping ovals, try using this shape instead. It's easier to fit text inside.
What is rectangle?
Paste an emoji into this. Then click the Emojipedia result to see how that emoji will look on different platforms (Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook).
What is a Google search?
Subtly refine what you look like on a Zoom video call. In the desktop app, go to Settings → Video and checkmark "Touch up my appearance." Drag the slider to adjust this setting.
What is intensity?
Do this kind of click to text to select elect the entire line or paragraph. It's faster than dragging your mouse to select the text.
What is triple?
In many apps you can add, edit, or modify a hyperlink by selecting text or an image and then using the keyboard shortcut of Control/Command and this key.
What is K?
Instead of asking, “Does anyone have any questions,” ask this instead.
What is, "What questions do you have?" or "Ask me two questions."?
After writing an angry email, text, tweet, or post, be sure to read it carefully. And then do this.
What is delete it?