After reading David Allen’s Getting Things Done last summer, I gained a lot of insights into how to stay on top of a seemingly endless onslaught of email. Look below for a good outline of Allen’s ideas. Getting Things Done From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This …
Easy feeds! This new tool from Google allows you to just enter a keyword and create an embeddable widget for your web page or blog. Any information you want to stream to your viewers– news, photos, blog posts– you can just get some paste code to add it to your …
As an English teacher, I always felt like I was drowning in a sea of papers. I needed to get the students to do high quality thinking, and the only way I knew how to evaluate that thinking was through their writing. Last semester, I got smart and had them …
Image via Wikipedia How many times have students tried to get out of writing a paper with the excuse “but I don’t have Microsoft Word!” Now, you can direct them to OpenOffice.org to get a free, legal replacement for M$ Office. It slices, it dices, it can save in .doc …
We’ve all been there: you wake up in the morning and realize “there’s no WAY I can go in to school today!” So you call the substitute and hope that your students don’t have a totally unproductive day without you.
A few years ago, one of my college buddies from back home told me to start a MySpace page, so I did. Before the weekend was over, three of my students had found it and linked me as their friend. Before the end of the year, I had over 90 …
I first became interested in open source software while working at an underfunded little charter startup in the central valley of California. We had an aging computer lab that didn’t have any modern software because the school couldn’t afford to pay for the licensing fees. After having to pay licenses …
Image via Wikipedia In my literature classes, I found that one of the biggest challenges for students when they sit down to write a paper is finding good quotes from the text. A great solution is to put the full text of a novel on your website (or at least …