Tag: tutorial

  • How to Setup a Google Hangout On Air (March 2015)

    Last weekend at the first annual “Google Summit Oklahoma City” hosted by the EdTechTeam, I shared a breakout session titled, “Google Hangouts 101.” Afterwards, I visited with two librarians I know who attended the session and had some follow-up questions. In talking with them, I realized I hadn’t clearly explained several things in the session which are very…

  • Find & Highlight Duplicates in Excel 2011 for Mac

    It’s exciting we’ve received almost 400 registrations for our third EdCampOKC event coming up on February 28th! Yesterday Julie Gathright, who is heading up our registration committee, noticed a few folks had registered twice with the same email address or with different email addresses. Since we want an accurate participant count (we’ve obtained sponsorships to provide…

  • New Year’s Discount: $10 Off Playing with Media Video Library Annual Membership

    To ring the new year I’m offering a $10 discount code (“2015newyears“) for an annual membership to my “Playing with Media” video library. I’ve uploaded dozens of videos about a variety of topics relating to multimedia creation and communication which are only available to library members.   As detailed on the about page of PlayingWithMedia.com, topics include:…

  • A Day of WordPress Website Updates

    I know it’s vacation time when I can spend almost an entire day on the couch updating WordPress websites. That may not sound like a fun way to spend break time from teaching at school, but it does to me! Here are some of the updates I made today to some of my websites, several of which were LONG overdue.    by  Nikolay…

  • Introducing the PlayingWithMedia.com Video Library

    For at least the past year I’ve been wanting to create a space online where I can teach and share video-based lessons about a variety of different media apps, websites, and sharing techniques. I’d considered creating something like “Speed of Creativity University,” but my wife thought that sounded too formal. Two weeks ago at the Write…

  • Utility to Find and Replace Broken WordPress Links

    In this post I’ll share some lessons learned finding and replacing a large number of broken links (over 13,000) in the mySQL database of a WordPress installation. After trying several different methods I finally found the free PHP utility “Search Replace Database by interconnectit,” which worked beautifully. Hopefully you won’t ever need this information, but if…

  • Free MinecraftEDU Server Remote Control Options for Mac Users

    Next week I’m starting a three part, six day MinecraftEDU lesson with my 4th and 5th grade STEM students which will be a mathematical “building challenge” similar to but a little different than what I had students do last year. Last semester I had students work in groups to complete a “permeter/area building challenge,” and students worked…

  • Learn About Lightspeed Mobile Manager

    Our school district is using the Lightspeed Mobile Manager for ALL our iPads this year. Previously I synced my iPads in my STEM classroom cart to a Macbook laptop and didn’t use a mobile manager. Here are a couple of links our IT department provided, which I’m going to use to learn more about using…

  • Setting Up an iPad Cart [VIDEO]

    UPDATE: I’ve made this video “private” temporarily because I’m in the process of figuring out how to get my apps installed… The steps described below are still the ones I followed, but…. I’ll add more info here soon. My learning curve with this is not finished….. Our school district IT department formatted (erased/wiped) all our…

  • How Can I Webstream an Event?

    This evening, in response to a Twitter question from Justin Staub, I created a 12 part MentorMob article series (technically it includes 11 articles and 1 audio podcast) addressing the question, “How Can I Webstream an Event?” There are multiple answers to this question, of course, which are appropriate for different situations depending on available…