Tips on Hardware, Software, Lessons, and General Computing
Posted in Productivity, Tools, email on Jul 7th, 2008
If your email is getting a bit out of hands these days and our previous tips haven’t helped, maybe it’s time to check into some software solutions. Xobni, a free Outlook Plugin, has done wonders for my personal email productivity. Let’s take a look at some of it’s features.
Posted in Productivity, Resources, Tools, Web on May 1st, 2008
Flash animations can be found all over the web, and several can be very useful in the classroom-especially with interactive white boards. But what would happen if the site that offers it were to go offline, get blocked, or delete the video?? For these moments, it would be great to have a copy of it [...]
Posted in Freebies, Lessons, Productivity, Resources, Tools, Web on Apr 16th, 2008
Learning to use a computer efficiently can be a tough task if you weren’t born with one already at your finger tips. Solutions to simple problems typically aren’t obvious, and unless you have spent a great deal of time with one you won’t inherently know whether something needs to be clicked, double clicked, downloaded, uploaded, [...]
Posted in Hardware, Phone, Productivity, Resources, Student Tech, Tools on Apr 9th, 2008
The following post may be a little too cutting edge for some, and still old news for others, but it at the very least shows a potential resource that could be tapped to reduce the strain on low budget schools needing more computers with internet connection. Rules and guidelines will still need to be hashed [...]
Posted in Productivity, Resources on Mar 17th, 2008
If you happen to be one of those teachers that live their life from the screen of your Smartphone, then you probably already know that with a data plan and a few quick settings you can have your email sent directly to your phone. Not only can you check your mail, but you can reply [...]
Posted in Productivity, Resources, Tools on Mar 11th, 2008
Call me crazy, but the times when I am able to take my work home is often some of the most productive time that I have. My focus is clearer, and I am able to settle in to a comfortable place and work where the distractions are fewer. I get a type of productivity going [...]
Posted in Productivity, Resources on Mar 5th, 2008
Today, I was firing off a couple of emails when I noticed that the message count in the top corner said, “483 Messages”! I decided enough was enough and began doing some more research into managing my inbox. I checked up on lifehacker.com, 43folders.com, and a few others to see what was going on. One [...]
Posted in Productivity, Resources, Tools, Web on Feb 17th, 2008
If you’re like me, you probably have an assortment of Education related blogs and sites loaded into your feed reader or bookmarks that you like to check on a frequent basis, but one way to add to your list of resources is to use the browser add-on, StumbleUpon.
If you are unfamiliar with StumbleUpon, it’s a [...]
Posted in Productivity, Resources on Feb 10th, 2008
Next year my school will start the process of moving to Infinite Campus. It won’t be an easy switch, as it seems that we still have to do training for the old system quite frequently. For the tech-savvy, it looks to be an incredible leap forward, but for the rest it could make for a [...]
Posted in Productivity, Resources, Tools on Jan 22nd, 2008
-Windows Only-
If you find yourself typing repitive text a lot while working through your emails or mountains of paperwork, maybe you should consider saving some time with the handy application Texter(FREE).