May
31
Tech Level: Easy Looking for a simple way to track all of those slippery cash purchases? Me too. I decided to make a simple google form that I could access via my web-enabled phone. The form is ridiculously simple, just two inputs in the form of questions. So simple it’s one of those, why didn’t …
Oct
25
Welcome MassCUE members. I am excited to present Wednesday (3:15 Blue 14). Our session at MassCUE10 this year describes how the ideas of a grassroots technology group in a high school spread to include the whole school and how using this simple idea in your own school can help improve the use of technology schoolwide. The …
Oct
04
Welcome MSLA members. Excited to present at the conference today. All the materials for the digital literacy challenge can be found on the conference page HERE MSLA Digital Literacy Challenge What is your favorite web 2.0 tool?Input your answer at http://wiffiti.com/screens/10113
Aug
17
If you have a google form on your website or blog and occasionally someone might submit some information. It would be useful to get an email alert to let you know there has been activity. For example, I have a google form HERE that I want to publicize and have people use periodically while at …
Aug
07
i-am-marvin Save time by eliminating the need for photocopying, Publish your class materials using googledocs, scribd or issuu Bonus: Super easy is to share short docs or post its by simply capturing a photo and publishing it, similar to these classroom rules from Keri Smith’s blog Save time by taking your quizzes online and away …
May
05
Discover Simple, Private Sharing at Drop.io Capturing ideas has been on my mind lately. I use evernote when working, but I often get the best ideas away from my computer either while on a walk or on a bike ride. I usually have my phone with me, I often message pictures to evernote, but I …
Oct
27
Conference Crashing 101 Massachusetts Computer using educators annual conference takes place this week. To have one place to monitor, listen and watch what is going on I created a public page on netvibes that monitors the tags masscue and masscue09. As soon as actual attendees post online via twitter, flickr, delicious, diigo, and blogs, it will …
Oct
19
It continues to amaze me how the learning network that I am immersed in seems to have a life of its own. This was the conversation it was having this weekend. I was reading this brave post by Lisa Thumann “I just don’t like technology” about how to deal with a comment from a professional …
Oct
09
This youtube video about using twitter in the college classroom came to my attention from a retweet by @edutopia to student’s blogpost at Butler Collision Repair Blog This is really worth taking the time to watch. It explains how twitter can be used to encourage deeper student participation in a discussion when they are in …
Sep
06
Back to school is a good time to commit to searching out tools online that students can really use to make learning more effective. These are the top 12 free tools that I use with teachers and students and they can be found year round on my public netvibes page. Many of these tools help …
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