An easy trick: How to get rid of unwanted mail messages in Google mail

What to do with unwanted mail (that isn't necessarily spam):

While you can't currently block messages from specific addresses or domains, you can set up a filter to send those unwanted messages directly to Trash.
To set up a filter, follow these steps:
• Click the down arrow in your search box at the top of the page. A window that allows you to specify your search criteria will appear.
• Enter your search criteria. If you want to check that your search worked correctly, click the search button. Clicking the down arrow again will bring    
          the window back with the same search criteria you entered.
• Click Create filter with this search at the bottom of the search window.
• Choose the action you'd like for these messages by checking the appropriate box. (In this case, I suggest checking "Delete it.")
• Click Create Filter.

Happy filtering . . .

New Google Tips - great videos for key features to each product

https://www.google.com/get/googletips/

As they state: "A fun way of poking around. New cards coming all the time, come back often!"

This is indeed a very nice website, where you can learn more about some features by poking the cards.

Enjoy

How to get rid of unwanted mail messages in Google mail

What to do with unwanted mail (that isn't necessarily spam):

While you can't currently block messages from specific addresses or domains, you can set up a filter to send those unwanted messages directly to Trash.

To set up a filter, follow these steps:

• Click the down arrow in your search box at the top of the page. A window that allows you to specify your search criteria will appear.

• Enter your search criteria. If you want to check that your search worked correctly, click the search button. Clicking the down arrow again will bring    

          the window back with the same search criteria you entered.

• Click Create filter with this search at the bottom of the search window.

• Choose the action you'd like for these messages by checking the appropriate box. (In this case, I suggest checking "Delete it.")

• Click Create Filter.

Happy filtering . . .

New Statistics in EduBlogs

It gets better all the time! Since April 15 (that's where the statistics gathering started)

Edublogs shows - in an easy way - basic statistics about visitors to a/your blog.

If your students are Edubloggers, then you really should show them these slick visitor statistics.

Go to your dashboard, and select the statistics option (it's pretty new!)

It will show basic (clickable) info about your visitors in total:

And it provides info about views to single pages:

Great feature: Saving your Google Mail and documents from Google Drive

Good news!

It is now possible to save (a copy of) all your Chadwick Mail and Google drive data.

This is great, especially if you are leaving, and just want to keep a copy of all things. After downloading,

you will need to upload the data into a mail application on a laptop, and then you have the local

standard options (search, delete etc.). It can - if you choose - maintain your folder/label structure as well.

As you can see from the screenshot, you can download many other things as well.

Here are the steps involved:

Download a copy of your Gmail data (Mail, Drive data and even more):

Go to your Google account settings, 

find and select Data Tools and continue to select the data you wish to save-keep. 

Mail will be saved in the Mbox format, meaning you could open it easily with Apple Mail (on your laptop) or Outlook (for Windows).

Here is a link with more specific info

Google Drive Data question:

What is the difference with copying the files from Google drive 

(when you sync your drive data from the cloud to your laptop, see screenshot below)?

The data download as described above, will give you readable documents on most platforms.

Meaning, Google Docs will be converted to docs you can read in MS Word, Pages or OpenOffice.

When you would copy the data from your synced Google drive, you maintain the Google document formats

(and that then again means, you can easily upload them again, into another account)

Bottom-line: An excellent new feature that Google offers here, and it might be a time saver for you.