Google is Cool
Today I’m playing with Google and hopefully this just worked. Earlier I embedded my swimming calendar in to a moodle page. I’ve set up a course for my swim team and I didn’t want to duplicate my calendaring (not a word, I know) efforts.
After I finished messing around with the calendar I had some ideas for programing assignments . I wanted to get them down but didn’t want to fire up OpenOffice for just a few notes so I switched over to the Google Docs and Spreadsheets to get them down. I noticed a little button on the top right that said “publish”. Could I also embed this document into my moodle page? This would save me so much time. Right now if I want to post a file I have to make it, save it, upload it, and create a link to it. Uploading the file really slows down the process. After a minute of tinkering I got it to work. So I’m thinking how could life get any easier now. The Google Docs and Spreadsheets doesn’t do everything OpenOffice does but it does alot.
While I was publishing I noticed a button that said “publish to blog”. Can I get this to work? It took some configuring but I think I ready to hit publish.
The best thing is that all of the google tools are free to use. This may change someday but as I write I don’t see any ads.
Second Try - It worked the first time but the post didn’t have a title. I think it will work this time, I saved the
Third Try - Still no title. Lets see if it works this time.
Fourth Try - Nope. Had to cheat. I’ll firgure it out some other time. Any tips?
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