13 Ways to make tech work for you – CREATE 2017 Conference Presentation
My presenation and links from the CREATE Conference.
Help students develop self-control with these 6 techniques
Learning self-control.
Vookmark is an easy way to bookmark videos on the web
Quick way to save links to videos.
Users of Chromebooks have it easy. All of their data, backed up automatically to Google Drive, they don’t have a care in the world. Except when it comes to the Downloads folder. On a Google Chromebook, the Downloads folder is local to the device and is not backed up anywhere. This might not be a problem in…
When a class is assigned to do a presentation for a subject, students groan. Maybe screencasts can bring back the magic? Not only do they have to stand in front of the class and present, they have to sit through 25 other presentations of students, done in the exact same manner. What if you mixed…
Under the More tab on the search results tab Google is adding a Personal tab. Selecting it searches your personal information stored in Google. Selecting Personal searches for matching data in your Calendar, Gmail, and Photos. It doesn’t appear to search Google Drive for content though. The Personal tab is only showing for personal accounts right now, and there isn’t any…
Bosses play no role in fostering a sense of meaningfulness at work – but they do have the capacity to destroy it and should stay out of the way, new research shows. The study by researchers at the University of Sussex and the University of Greenwich shows that quality of leadership receives virtually no mention…
This is part 4 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. We’re getting close to inbox zero, and today’s tip deals with emails from students. I’ve talked about this in the past, and the directions haven’t changed. Student Email Footer Unfortunately, Google’s search criteria fails if you have students in the same domain as teachers (everyone…
When Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the NSA spying, the term metadata came up. Metadata is the bits of information attached to a piece of intelligence. For example, a phone call has metadata data attached to it such as the date and time of the call, who was making the call, who received the call,…