Category: google
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Capture: Setting Up Traps to Organize Mountains of Information #wildtech
These are my notes from Jason Neiffer‘s breakout presentation, “Capture: Setting Up Traps to Organize Mountains of Information,” at the 14th Annual August Institute, “Technology Runs Through It” conference at the University of Montana in Missoula. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Jason’s awesome high school debate website is bigskydebate.com Jason’s resources for…
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Comparing Free Ways to Privately Share Files with Others Online
I received a question recently via Twitter concerning file sharing over the Internet. How can a person or organization securely share access to digital files with someone else, for free, so they can access them with a smart phone, laptop and/or desktop computer? Here are a few ideas, please chime in with other suggestions or…
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A Live Action Charlie Chaplin Google Doodle #gct
Back in April 2011, a team at Google created the first “live action Google doodle” to commemorate the birthday of Charlie Chaplain. In a post about the project and Chaplain, Google doodler Ryan Germick wrote: Chaplin is also one of my creative heroes. Despite being an art-obsessed high schooler preemptively bored by anything in black…
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A few spots still open for Wednesday’s Google Docs Workshop (virtual & F2F)
A few virtual tickets are still available for the all-day workshop I’ll teach both over video and in person Wednesday, May 11th on Google Docs. The official workshop title is, “Google Documents, Spreadsheets, Forms, Presentations & Drawing BYOL Workshop.” Instead of using Ustream.tv for virtual participants, this week I’ll be using the Blue Jeans Network…
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Demonizing Oklahoma Public School Teachers While Praising Them?
It’s National Teacher Appreciation week. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s “Open Letter to America’s Teachers” includes not only praise for our nation’s educators, but the first hint I’ve read to date that he recognizes (and maybe even wants to address) some of the fundamental flaws in NCLB and our overall, dominant paradigm of high…
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Tips for adding images to Custom Google Maps #gct
I received an email this evening from a participant in my half-day workshop, “GeoApps for Learning: Google Maps and Google Earth,” which I presented in early March at the Heartland eLearning Conference. He is running into trouble getting his students to add images to their shared, custom Google Map. These are a few tips I…
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How to Subscribe to a Website as a Channel in Google Reader, and Categorize / Organize it in a Folder
The following three minute screencast demonstrates how to “subscribe” to a website as a new “channel” of information using Google Reader, and then organize or categorize that “feed” in a folder. Google Reader is a free news aggregator which can be used to create customized, digital newspapers. It integrates well into phenomenal applications like FlipBoard…
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24-25 February 2011: Google Tools Workshops in Claremore, Oklahoma (Tulsa area)
I’m pleased to announce I’ll be repeating the two-day “Google Tools” BYOL (bring your own laptop) workshops I presented in December in Oklahoma City for educators in the Tulsa area on Thursday, February 24 and Friday, February 25th in Claremore, Oklahoma. You can attend either face-to-face or virtually. The Claremore campus of Northeast Technology Center…
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Web Browser Options #gct
I have shared the following information as a resource page on my “Technology 4 Teachers” curriculum wiki. Internet Explorer is NOT the only software option when it comes to viewing websites on the Internet. Websites SHOULD be designed to be standards-compliant, but sometimes they are not and display content differently in different web browsers. The following 69…
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Considering Options to Reduce Monthly Wireless Bills
Since giving our 13 year old son my old iPhone 3GS for Christmas, I’ve known his SMS (text message) use was going to go up. Previously, he’d had a Motorola Razr phone and sending text messages was cumbersome for him. Getting our family on the AT&T “family plan” for unlimited text messages has been on…