Youtube daily Sep 26 2018

all right we are back for episode two of the No Name podcast or

Tech Show. Right. And we did have some good suggestions okay on Twitter yeah

there were there were two "do you even chrome" which I thought was pretty funny

and then I can't remember the second one but I think we should stick with the

No-Name Tech Show I kind of like not limiting. No you know and we also got one

piece of feedback from a very unreliable source, I don't know if you saw the

comment but it said "expecting more humor" all right. I'm just discounting it just

discounting it. I think there was plenty of good humor in there for people to get

okay? Agree. That's all right, so Sue very interesting naming conventions yes

let's take a look at your, do you want to do you want to tell us what yours

was today? Mine is to walk people through how to access ebooks and

audiobooks that we subscribe to through the Vermont schools shared digital

collection that's the naming convention and it's a new program that we well it's

I don't know how new the program is but it's new for us to subscribe to it and the thing I love about it is that you can read or listen to them on any device, even a Chromebook

Hi everyone and welcome to week 2 of the no-name technology show this week I'm

going to show you how you can access e-books and audiobooks for our library's

subscription to the Vermont schools shared digital collection that's a

mouthful. You can either try and google that or you can go right to our school's

homepage click on the link for library and from there I'm gonna walk you

through the rest of it and in the main menu you'll find a link to finding great

books clicking on that brings up this webpage and scrolling on down you can

see that yes we do have audiobooks on CD which you can search for in our library

catalog but for today I'm gonna walk through how to access the Vermont

school's digital collection clicking on that link brings up this website and in

the drop down menu you select Montpelier High school and you will find once you log in

that you have access to both the shared collection for all Vermont schools as

well as those that I have purchased solely for our school

once you click sign-in brings up a username and password and this is where

students you will log in using your full email address and your lunch ID number

if you don't know what that is just stop by and see me or email me and I'm happy

to help you with that staff I don't know if those accounts are set up just yet

but again just stop by and see me or email me and we can set it up very

quickly and easily so once you log in you're going to click Submit and now you

can see lots of ebooks and audiobooks available to all of the participating

schools in Vermont the icon on this top book that looks like a little book on

the top right here is an e-book and if it's grayed out that means that it's

currently checked out but you can get on a holding waiting list for it

this one is darker so it shows that it's available the little set of headphones

means that it's an audiobook and this one also appears to be available you can

either just browse through all that's here or you can scroll on down there are

collections for this year's Green Mountain Book Award as well as some teen

reads you can also going to the top of the page search by author or title let's

say that you'd like to check out and download Solo mousing over it you can

just click on borrow and since you've already logged in you go straight to

your checkouts if you want to listen to it right now you can just click on

listen and it'll open right in your browser or you can download it if you're

using a smartphone or tablet it would give you the option to download it right

to your device when you finish the book you can go back to this page and click

on return title or it will also automatically get checked back in after

14 days so that's how you can find and access

ebooks and audiobooks through our shared collection stop by and see me if you

have any questions thanks that's very cool! Yeah. Are a lot of students utilizing this?

I've had to actually already stop by one needed a book for a class and then

another student just stopped by and asked how they use it, so I don't know how many are using it yet.

I'm impressed. And it's banned books week so I had to do something with books yeah

absolutely so I I took a leap here this is an old tool it's been around for a

while but people kind of used it when it first came out and then kind of forgot

about it and that's Google Voice so being able to set up a digital phone

number there's a lot that you can do with it and I do kind of an okay job

talking about it but there's more

I'm gonna show you a Google tool that is underutilized and super valuable for

teachers and principals and all sorts of great stuff it's called Google Voice

been around for a while I actually at one point used this as a calling system

for my home phone it's a way to set up a virtual phone number that can be

connected to your phone or your devices and it's a way that you can share a

phone number or a contact source without giving away your personal phone number

or your work phone number or whatever and it's all done through your Google

system so I've set up a Google phone number I connect it to my email account

and there's a couple things I'm going to show you in here so you get voicemail

this is just a voicemail I think confirming that I set up the account

let's see welcome to Google Voice it transcribes the voicemail so that you

can see what was said and it's pretty accurate and pretty good it records

welcome to

Google Voice. Google Voice gives you a single phone

number that rings all your phone saves your voicemail online and

transcribed your voicemail to text other cool features include the ability to

listen in on messages while they're being left block and follow callers and

make cheap international calls we hope you enjoy using Google Voice so there

you go it said it all there so you can set this up so that it rings to your

phones if you want to and when you answer it on your phone it's just like

it's it's just like a regular phone call so I've seen teachers use this as a way

for parents to connect and students to connect you can embed your Google Voice

phone number button on a webpage a website or a blog so that people can

click it make a call right from computer that's the other thing that you can do

with this is you can make phone calls you can type in the name or number these

are two people that are in my contact list so you can do all of these things

right from here and check your messages you can send a message you can send a

text message but let's see what else so I went deep into settings and there is a

ton that you can do with this tool you can set it for time you can set

different greetings you can record the audio you can download the audio you can

transcribe the audio you can get an email every

time somebody leaves the message there's just a lot you can do as a teacher

without exposing your personal contact information it's a way to manage it all

I've seen teachers use this to collect audio responses from students on an

assignment I've seen it as a way to collect frequently asked questions from

parents and respond to them just a way to open communications but manage them

in a way that doesn't impose on your personal devices or your personal

contact information it's a fantastic tool totally underrated totally

underutilized check it out so that's it generally it's just a way like think of

it as a teacher hotline right so the teacher could set it up for a class and

parents and students and whatever can use that to leave messages I have seen

teachers that do podcasts and things like that collect audio that way for

projects but there I know that for some people giving away their phone number or

information can be a concern this is a way to manage it connected totally

to your work that's pretty cool yep let's see that coming in handy and free

and you can text from your computer text next you know back and forth to things

like that all from your Google account so that you're not using your personal

data or any of that stuff

not too bad yeah and I'm not going to give anyone mine just saying okay so

that's it so we have two tips maybe next time we'll include a joke of the week

for the one person that said there needs to be more humor but I really think we

did okay without it we just yeah I agree