Tips, Tricks, and Lifehacks for Online Educators
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Most people are wary of the idea of blogging because they think of it as another, separate activity they have to do on top of their other responsibilities. The term “blogger” has become an...
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...
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,...
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...
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–...
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...
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...