Switch from Teaching Word Processing to Teaching Web Processing
If you’re like me, one of the first computer skills you were taught in school (in the early 1990s) is how to use a word processor. We all mastered the art of formatting words...
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Take Dramatic 3D Screenshots of Websites with Firefox
If you do a lot of presentations or tutorials about technology, you probably have to take screenshots of websites to illustrate your ideas. I really like to add a “wow” factor to my presentations...
Make a “Hard to Guess but Easy to Remember” Password for Greater Cloud Security
In my last post, I recommended using a password manager like LastPass to help you create strong, unique passwords for all of the different sites you use. If you don’t like the idea of storing...
Good Security Practices Keep You Safe(r) from Hackers when Using Cloud Tools
Friends and colleagues have been expressing doubt about entrusting their data to “The Cloud”, especially in light of the recent high profile attacks on the CIA, the Senate, and Sony (among many others). As...
Free Tools, the Distorted Web, Privacy, and Your Students’ Critical Thinking Skills
Until I saw this TED talk, I didn’t care much that free Web 2.0 tools like Google and Facebook were collecting massive dossiers of information about my online habits. I thought they were just...
Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part II: Showing What You Know
In Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part I, you learned to find and organize information that will teach you, challenge your ideas, and help you stay on top of interesting new developments in your areas...
Cultivate your Personal Learning Network
This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to use, I want to talk about why you would do...
The Blackboard Buyout and the Wisdom of Open Web Standards
As part of our LMS Evaluation, we’ve investigated concerns around Instructure’s viability and longevity as a business. Recent events surrounding Blackboard should lead us to question its viability with equal diligence. First there was...
Search Large Creative Commons Images from the Chrome Omnibar
When I’m doing a creative project (or just working on a presentation) I am always looking for large, beautiful photos bearing a Creative Commons license. Works released in the Creative Commons can be reused,...