Tips, Tricks, and Lifehacks for Online Educators
Teachers and students alike come to me on those horrible days when their files have suddenly and inexplicably disappeared without a trace. Here is a great article about recovering your data when it goes...
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...
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–...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...