Tag: advice

  • The Story of Bella Tunno (Narrated Sketchnote)

    Michelle Buelow is a successful entrepreneur and the CEO of Bella Tunno. Michelle presented about her journey and lessons learned in both life and business to our students at Providence Day School on September 14, 2022. This is a “narrated sketchnote” of her talk that I created during and immediately following her presentation. The original…

  • Don’t Let Toxic Voices Tell You Who You Are

    This is a message of encouragement for anyone out there who is feeling discouraged, especially teachers, by the hurtful and toxic words of someone else who is bringing you down and causing you to question what you’re doing, and maybe even who you are as a professional educator. We all need to maintain our humility…

  • Chromebook and Home Computer Advice for Parents (Dec 2018)

    As a school director of technology as well as a known “tech geek” at other places we frequent like our church, I’m often asked for advice about purchasing computers for kids at holiday time. I’m also frequently asked about Internet filtering, Internet safety, and topics falling under the general topic of “digital citizenship.”

  • Writing for Greater Impact by Shannon Ethridge

    These are my notes from Shannon Ethridge‘s presentation, “Writing for Greater Impact” on Saturday, October 24, 2015, at the Write Well, Sell Well Conference in Oklahoma City. Follow Shannon on Twitter: @ShannonEthridge. Shannon is an incredible author, speaker, coach and teacher. She has created “the platform” Michael Hyatt writes about. She wrote “Every Woman’s Battle” which is…

  • Ransomware, Backups & Google Drive

    I’ve started a new weekly “technology tip” video series as our school’s director of technology. This week’s video is titled, “Ransomware, Backups & Google Drive,” and was prompted by this week’s News9 article, “Virus Hits Moore Public Schools Computer Systems.” This incident involved CryptoLocker, which is a very bad type of malware known as “ransomware.” In this narrated slideshow I…

  • Advice for Church Digital Oral History Projects

    A friend emailed me some questions about a digital oral history project she’s wanting to start at her church, and I’m posting my response to her below in case this is of interest to others. Someone else recommended she use a video camcorder with an external lapel microphone for the project. My advice is to…

  • Avoiding AT&T’s Ridiculous iPhone Data Fees by Switching to T-Mobile

    This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. The cost of activating an iPhone with AT&T is absolutely ridiculous. Since I have several kids, and eventually want all of them to be able to use smartphones, this is a real concern for me. Our family wireless bill now exceeds a monthly car payment, and…