Tips and Tools

Don’t laugh. You’ll want to remember the name. All of us, including the #onepersonoffice, remember those quaking moments when we’re asked to perform the unknown and make it happen. Quick. Creating online forms fits into the discomfort category for me. I found a great solution with Wufoo. It’s a seamless way to post registration forms…

Are you on Twitter? I’m sure you’ve heard people talk about its value and I certainly can’t disagree. As an educator, it’s a great way to get instant professional development and to create a personal learning network (insert standard education acronym here: PLN) with people from across the country, and even the world. But sometimes,…

I keep my iPhone around me more than I’d like to admit. But it houses so much of my life/brain: my calendar, text messages, emails, to-do lists, documents, shopping lists. The works. And with all of the different communication apps, text messages are still the ones that I see–>remember–>respond to. Maybe that’s why I love…

Just telling learners about something rarely succeeds. With luck, maybe they’ll catch on to your point. But if you show them how something works, you’re well on your way. This is the value of creating and sharing short screencasts. Last week I chatted about screencasts and their ability to “save the day” when it came to providing tech assistance. Screencasts can…

Has someone ever called you with a tech question and you wish you could show them exactly what to do… but you can only chat over the phone? Me too. As the former technology coach for our district, this happened to me all the time. Sometimes I could talk staff through the issue over the…

I’m an expert procrastinator.   I’d  like to think that I live for the adventure of last minute deadlines and that I operate well under pressure. But more than likely the main cause of my procrastination is my two kids and husband, my full time teaching duties, this tech gig for SCN, and my work on my second master’s degree.…