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Making your Mark… on Google Maps

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Google Maps has long been one our favorite tools over here in CELT. Google maps is great for a lot of reasons, but especially when it comes to creating personalized maps with landmarks and boundaries. To add to an already stellar online tool, Google just released a crowdsourcing portal for Google Maps called Mapmaker.
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Working Smarter, Not Harder

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Anna’s got a problem. She’s a biology student at Keene State College working on original research and she needs to count the stem cells. Specifically she needs to count somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 stem cells at once, in a bucket full of slides. That’s a lot of counting. More to the point, it’s [...]

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Common Google Spreadsheet Tasks

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

So you’ve jumped into Google Spreadsheets with both feet… Now what?
Creating a Form with Google Spreadsheets:

Working Logic Formula’s

Referencing Cells

Filtering Results

Protecting Sheets in your Workbook

Creating a Simple Real Time Graph

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QR Codes and You

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

What’s a QR Code?
Quick Reference or QR codes are a two dimensional matrix code that performs a function similar to a bar code. That is to say that it’s a form of encoded information not easily read by people, but easily decoded by computers. QR codes can often been seen on UPS or FedEx packages, and [...]

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