Yesterday I wrote about the benefits of using an editorial calendar to plan out your blog posts and help you come up with ideas for posts that you want to write. Although there are many different ways of keeping an editorial calendar, I chose to use a plugin for WordPress called, coincidentally enough, Editorial Calendar….
One of the arguments against blogging is the lack of time. I know this feeling all too well as I try to produce quality content. A tool that I’ve found helpful is an editorial calendar. What is an editorial calendar? An editorial calendar allows you to organize your blog posts in advance, allowing you to…
Gitter.im is a chat service that makes it really easy to create public chat rooms. I’ve talked about Gitter before, with one if its drawbacks being the requirement of a Github account. This week Gitter will be adding the ability to sign up and use Gitter with Twitter accounts. Accounts using Twitter will be limited…
By default, the favicon for Gmail is the boring old Gmail logo: . There is a way to update that icon, and have the favicon reflect the number of unread emails in your Gmail inbox. To do this, you will need to go to the settings in Gmail by clicking on the gear icon, , and then…
Create an mp3 of translated text with Sound of Text Sound of Text is a website that will translate a short phrase and create an MP3 file of the phrase in the translated language. ⓔ Putting a file in two places at once in Google Drive with Add Here Neat little tip to use to…
I’ve found that although you can share a Google Form for collaboration, sharing a Google Form in this manner is sometimes not the best way to brainstorm forms or to make a form that consists of more than one page or branching. In these circumstances, a Google Doc is a way to share the job…
Visual Note Taking at a Conference | Silvia Tolisano- Langwitches Blog Nonetheless, I still believe that it does not hold true for everyone, nor in all situations. I also believe that we owe it to ourselves to keep experimenting with different note taking forms. With so many tools at our disposal it is up to…
When creating Google Forms it can be tedious if you have several options to type as an answer to a question. For example, I use a Google Form for feedback in my classroom, and the first question is for me to enter the student’s name. I’d like to just select the student’s name, but then…
For the last nine weeks of the school year I decided to check out Classcraft.com as I look into gamification in the classroom. This won’t be a review, but more of a first look at Classcraft and how it can work in the classroom. What is gamification? Gamification is the use of behavioristic tools in the…
I’ve been experimenting this year with a two screen setup, one projector and one 70″ LCD TV. Instead of having the same content on both screens, I use a Chromecast in the TV along with the Chromecast extension in Google Chrome. Send one tab By default, the Chromecast extension wants to send one tab to…