Share Ownership of a Los Rios Google Site

A Los Rios Google Site can be shared with a student's other Google account by visiting the Sharing and Permissions page and adding that person as an owner of the site.

Note that the site preserves its Los Rios affiliation despite having a non-Los Rios owner (the URL for the site includes /apps.losrios.edu/). After sharing, the site can be copied and so it can be completely owned by the other Google account.

Connect to the Gmail App for Mobile Devices

The Los Rios Google account can be connected to Google's apps on mobile devices. The following are noted in the demonstration video:

1. There are two steps to authenticate a Los Rios Google account: the first screen requires the entire email address (including the @apps.losrios.edu domain) but the password does not matter; the second screen requires only the Los Rios username and the Los Rios password
2. Other Los Rios Google services that have associated Google apps (like Drive) can also be used.

Add Captions to Videos Hosted in Google Drive

Videos hosted in Google Drive can include user-supplied captions. Similar to YouTube videos, a plain transcript file can also be uploaded and Google will figure out the timing for the captions.

Use Google Drive to Share Attachments via Email

If you too are concerned about large attachments taking up space in our co-workers' email, you can upload your attachment to your Los Rios Google account and send a link to that file instead.

Download captions from YouTube

I found a blog entry with tips on how to download the captions from a YouTube video. Use the following URL buy replace the string VIDEO_ID with the string of characters that follows "v=" in a YouTube URL:

http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=en&v=VIDEO_ID

Copy the contents of that page and paste into another page, also linked from that blog entry, which will strip out the tags and make the captions easier to read:

http://www.nicertutor.com/xml.cgi