Tech Tuesday – March 26: Tab Grouping in Google Chrome and Educational Padlet for Faculty Collaboration
TechTuesday
A weekly tip email from your neighborhood Instructional Technology and eHR team.
Tip #1 – Tabs, tabs everywhere! Most people love tabs and open them constantly throughout the day. Before we know it, our Chrome looks like this.
To help summon your inner Marie Kondo, and tidy up those tabs, we recommend trying the feature in Chrome called Tab Grouping. This allows you to condense multiple tabs related to the same content into a group. Click on any tab in that content area>Add tab to a new group.
Call the group whatever you’d like and enjoy the color-coding!
Your tab group will reside to the left of the sites within it. Clicking will toggle the tabs between hidden/shown.
Tip #2 – We really want to host sessions where all of you faculty get to meet and share any ideas or techniques or resources related to dental education. Until this can actually happen, I wanted to provide at least a virtual space in which you can still do such. Padlet is a virtual bulletin board tool. I set up one that all of you can use to share what is working (or not working) in your individual educational experiences. You can simply post text, but you can also link, embed, and attach resources.
Click here to access our VCU SoD Padlet.
To post something new, click the circle icon with the + symbol. A small box will appear in which you can type, link, or attach something. You can also comment or like other posts. By default, your posts will be Anonymous, so you may want to leave your name, or alternatively, if you sign in with Google, your name will automatically get attached to a post. That is probably a good thing, so someone can follow-up if they want more information on something you posted.
