One of my complaints with my new and improved Macbook Pro was battery life. As I’ve been investigating what I can do to help improve my time on battery, I’ve come up with two different approaches. One is a no brainer, dim the screen. The other is more painful. Switching to Safari. I’ve notice that Google Chrome…
In the menu bar under OS X you may have a bunch of icons on the right side, each one with a different function or representing a different app. When you click on them, they usually give you quick access to some feature. For example, the sound icon lets you adjust the volume. A neat…
I use conditional formatting for individual cells quite a bit. What’s nice is that conditional formatting can also highlight rows in Google Sheets, which is very possible! Some ways this is useful is when you are analyzing student scores. You can mark rows where the student is proficient in green, where the student is borderline…
Last night, as I was procrastinating working on a lesson for today, I came across Slides.com. As always, I get bored with my current presentation software of choice (currently either Google Slides or Keynote) so it was neat to play around with something new. Slides.com works pretty much as you would expect, and the editor is…
Matt Bucy on Vimeo has put together a cut of The Wizard of Oz where he has rearranged every instance of every word in alphabetical order. It’s quite fascinating to watch, and some of the scenes with the same word are quite humorous when put together in this order.
Here are some resources I’ve found to help teach binary. Why would you teach binary? The binary (base 2) numbering system is the backbone of almost every electronic device on the planet. George Boole and his concept of Boolean logic was one of the most important advances that led to the information age. All of…
In my never ending quest to maximize the amount of work that needs to get done I’m constantly evaluating ways of managing my task lists. I’m currently settling into two systems, depending on the tasks that need to be completed. Google Keep Google Keep is Google’s limited answer to Evernote. While it doesn’t have near…
There are tons of way to have group chats, and a newcomer (at least to me) is Bindle Chat. Offering an iOS and Android client, Bindle allows you to create private and public chat rooms based around a hashtag. In my limited testing, it appears to work pretty well, and could be used for various mobile…
SMART Technologies received a warning from the NASDAQ that the company was in danger of being delisted. The reason was that it hasn't been able to maintain $1.00 price per share on it's stock, which at this moment is at $.24 per share. Does this mean that SMART Technologies is dead? Probably not. They've already…
In the past year and a half I have been running Linux on an Lenovo Ideapad. It worked really well, but I was missing a couple of things. One was wireless mirroring. My workaround was to use Chrome and a Chromecast, but it wasn’t as smooth as I would like. I was also missing some…