I recommend that all my students use Firefox as their main web browser. It is faster, more secure, and more extensible than IE, Safari, or Opera. As the school year goes on, I will recommend Firefox plug-ins that make surfing the web a whole new experience. Mozilla Firefox The premier …
Image by macwagen via Flickr GSpell is a great little add-on for the Mac OS that basically uses the power of Google as a spell-checker for all your desktop applications. It works in Word, Firefox, email…. everything on your computer. It’s cool because it searches the internet for the misspelled …
Cover via Amazon My big mission this summer is to learn how to adopt David Allen‘s Getting Things Done method into my way of handling email. Thunderbird (with the Lightning plugin) has all the tools you need to GTD quickly and easily. Getting Things Done with Thunderbird posted at 16:48:25 …
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 missing…. How to Recover Deleted Files with Free Software Ack! The computer ate my term paper! …
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 …
This is another great teacher hacks blog. Check it out! clipped from teachclever.com Don’t teach harder, teach clever.
This is a video we did based off of MWesch’s great work. We started a class discussing how technology impacts our lives and, in one period, turned it into a video that we could share with the wider world. The students wrote their responses, rehearsed the choreography a few times, …
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 …
Nothing keeps up class morale than silly games. Usually, I do these at the beginning of the year to help get to know the kids, but I’ve recently learned how valuable it can be to play a silly game when deadlines are coming and grades are due. 15 minutes of …