Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Apps Figma is a $2 billion dollar company and is the latest to offer it’s products free for education. One of those products is their…
Tool discovery is often a challenge for teachers interested in finding ways to use technology that will change the way they and their students work. With so much going on in the classroom, many teachers don’t have the time to test out various apps and find the perfect tool to meet their needs. Luckily, several…
I wanted a quick way to record tasks and an easy way to see what needs to be done, and I’ve done both with Gmail. Prerequisites This article will cover setting up Gmail, but the procedures will work with any email account that supports filters. I use plus aliasing for the recipient email address in…
Source: Google Search Filter – Chrome Web Store This is a pretty cool add-on for Google Chrome. With it, you can highlight results from websites you like while hiding results from websites you don’t want to see (I’m looking at you Pinterest…). Once installed, go to google.com and click on the extension in the toolbar….
In early 2020 I was tapped to design an onboarding program for three new Instructional Designers that would be added to our team in the coming months. I decided to take a multi-modal approach to designing the onboarding experience, balancing consistent, online, low-touch eLearning experiences with high-touch, rich, interactive, learner-centered constructivist activities. Now that it’s…
So we now can work in teams despite being continental distances away from each other but we do have to acquire the skills to do that. And if we fail to do so, that has a rather grave disadvantage, which is that… Nothing has as dire an impact on productivity as poor communications. This is a truism that applies…