If you're using a Mac and it goes to the screen saver or goes to sleep, sometimes it will "lock." When it wakes up, it will ask for your password to unlock. It just wants to make sure that you're really you and not someone who sneaked up while you were out of the room.
If this feature is getting in the way, you can adjust it.
First, go to the Apple menu and select System Preferences.
Next, click on the "Security & Privacy" icon.
Lastly, make the adjustments you want. This could include lengthening the delay so it is 15 minutes or even an hour instead of 5. You could even turn it off entirely.
LucidChart just added a new feature to make presenting charts more interesting.
First, you use LucidChart to make a mind-map, flow chart, food web, organizational chart, or some other chart. Then you designate areas of the chart as "slides." When you're ready to present the chart, LucidCharts will zoom in to the first slide, then the second, and so on.
For a better explanation, check out this one minute video.
If you're familiar with Prezi, this is similar. Unlike Prezi, LucidChart can store its files inside Google Drive, right next to your other files. LucidChart is also capable of more complex charts and making charts for printing.
To give this a try, just go to your Drive and click on "New". Then go to "More" and "Lucidchart".
If you want an easy-to-build, "Jeopardy"-like game show to run in class, check out Flippity Quiz Show.
Just click on "this template" and then "Make a copy" and you'll get a spreadsheet.
Change the headers from "Category1", etc. to the categories that you want to use.
The lines have labels like "100Q" to show that its the 100 point Question or "100A" for the 100 point Answer. Change the questions and answers (and categories) to suit your needs.
When you're done, click on "Get the Link Here" at the bottom of the screen. Follow those directions, and you'll get a link named "Click here to go to your Flippity Quiz Show".
When its time to run the game show, turn on your projector, open this file, and click on the link. That will open up your quiz show. The quiz show can have up to six teams by using the "+" and "-" buttons at the bottom of the screen.
