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A few times a year, in my district, there is an email that accidentally gets emailed to all of our district staff. There are always a number of people who reply and ask why they are getting this email. Then as the email gets replied to several times, people reply and beg everyone to stop replying all. If you are ever caught in this situation, you can mute the message thread. Muting a message thread archives the thread and you will not receive notification when a new message is sent. The animated GIF below shows where you find this mute button. With the message, thread open click the More button at the top of the message. Click Mute The thread will disappear from your inbox because it is archived. You can find the message again by going to the All Mail label on the left or searching for the thread using the search box at the top of the Gmail screen. 

A recent update to Google Sites now allows you to copy HTML/Embed code from other websites and embed your content into your site. This is a major update to Sites and allows NEW sites to be more interactive by allowing these resources to be embedded directly into the site. How to embed HTML code into NEW Google Sites Copy the HTML / Embed code from your third party site (i.e. FlipGrid, EdPuzzle, Thinglink, etc.) On the Site page you want to insert your HTML resource click "Embed" from the insert menu on the right, or double click on the page you would like to insert the resource and choose "Embed" from that menu. Choose EMBED CODE from the pop-up window Paste the HTML / Embed code you copied from the other website into the box Click Next You are given a preview of what will be displayed on your Site page. Click Insert if you see your resource. You can resize your resource once it gets inserted on the page, if needed. Publish your site and view your resourc

Recently Google announced some updates to the way you can format images inserted into Google Docs, Slides and Drawing files. You can now add drop shadow and reflection to your images. Images with transparent backgrounds work best for these features, especially the drop shadow effect. How to access the new formatting features: Insert an image into your file. Select the image by clicking on it. There should be a blue line around your image. Click Format options... button on the toolbar To turn the Drop shadow and/or Reflection feature on, click the check box to the right of the words. Clicking the check box will turn these features on then you can click the triangles to the left of the words to access their settings.