Tech Tip: Using your Bookmarks Bar for Productivity

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At the NYSCATE 2016 Conference I gave a presentation on how to customize your Google Chrome browser for Teacher Productivity.  One of my favorite tips that I have found to be really useful is to organize the Bookmarks/ Favorites bar.  I didn't get to dig into it as much as I wanted at the conference, so I created a quick tutorial which is linked below.  Also, I have shared the website that I used that contained my resources, as well as, my top Google Educators Links!




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