I spent an hour and a half yesterday helping a user get started with Google Apps for Education (GAFE) and thought to myself, “boy, it would be nice to collect some resources for this so I don’t have to repeat myself”. So here it is, a few resources to help you get started with GAFE….
When it comes to sharing videos, Youtube is one of the best solutions. You don’t have to worry about video codecs or audio encoding, if Youtube can understand the video it will be converted to a format that can be viewed on just about everything. But, what about when Youtube is not an option? There…
Google has added to big updates to Google Docs this week, epub export and outline mode. EPub export EPub is the file format used for eBooks and is readable on just about every system in use today. Basically everything except for Amazon’s Kindles. The advantages of the ePub file format is the ability to distribute…
There have been several times that I needed to send out a customized email to students. I could create the email, and make my changes for each student, but there’s a better way, Form-Mule! For this example, I created a spreadsheet with the student’s name, email address, and when they have a meeting scheduled. Under…
Thanks to anonymous hackers, 500 more Apple II titles are now available on Archive.org. These games are fully playable in the browser, even on Chromebooks. There are a bunch of educational software for the Apple II software, so if you’re looking for an alternative ABCya, check it out.
I’ve talked about group chatting with IRC, Slack, and Bindle, and recently stumbled upon Gitter. The interface is a lot like Slack, but, unlike Slack, you can have public or private rooms (with the free plan private rooms are limited to 25 participants). Every user is required to have a Github account, and those accounts are…
Everyone once in a while, you may need a timer for an activity in your classroom. I prefer to project a timer instead of setting a time because it’s more noticeable for the students. Here are three quick and dirty online timers. Google Timer In the Google search box or in the Chrome URL field…
I’ve written a couple of papers on my Alphasmart Dana, but the issue I had was getting the documents off of the Dana in a format I could use. I always save the documents from Alphaword on the SD card since the internal memory will lose its contents if the battery fails. My original plan…
Your shift key is a super hero in disguise. During the day, it has the mundane job of making letters upper case, and allowing you to prefix your hashtags with the # sign, but it can do more… A lot more. Presenting: The hidden power of the shift key! Power 1: Adding blank lines in…
I ran across this review of GIF Brewery 3 and was blown away at the app. When creating tutorials for posts, I prefer to use animated gifs since they will play right in the browser and are lighter then including video clips. Unfortunately, my workflow for creating them required me to record a screencast in Screenflow,…