A woman may have lost a highly coveted NASA internship following a profanity-laced back-and-forth with a user on Twitter. That user? Famed former NASA engineer and current space council adviser Homer Hickam. Source: NASA internship reportedly lost after Twitter spat with Homer Hickam Yet another reminder that what you post can come back and haunt you.
It is becoming more and more common for someone to have multiple Google accounts. You have your personal Gmail account. Then you have your school Google Apps for Education account. Then you also have that Google account for the club/sport/organization you help run. As a Google Education Trainer, I have lost count of how many accounts…
Top 3 posts of the week Sharing: 4 Reasons That Technology Might Not Be Helping Them Learn Seems to be a recurring theme, don’t do technology for technology’s sake. ⓔ Highlight the minimum and maximum cell in a Google Sheet column #gafetip #itip15 Although it’s a little tricky to set up, I use this all…
One underutilized feature of word processors is the ability to apply styles to text. I’ve mentioned styles in Google Docs before, but today I want to look into why you would use styles. In simplest terms, styles allow you to consistently format your document while also allowing you to change the look of an entire…
This is part 1 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. There’s a phrase I like to use, “Your inbox is not an organizational tool”. But, how many people do you know that have thousands of emails in their inbox, mingling archived emails with actionable emails? By working toward inbox zero you’ll lessen the cognitive load…
