I added the WP to Twitter Plugin to WordPress to automatically tweet when I have made a post. This is cheating in a way, because I challenged my students to create one educational blog post and tweet a day for the next seven days. I can now do this in one step. To do this,…
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Career Coach – Career Assessment, Job Postings, Resume Building, Career Planning
It’s one of the best kept secrets! CareerCoach! Start by doing a Career Assessment — trust me, take the long version (about 20 minutes). It will give you insights into the best career opportunities for you. Search out the careers that interest you under the Career Tab and match those to the Education you need….
Track Google Contacts Interactions
It must be my day to find Google gold nuggets! I accidentally clicked on one of my Google Contact names and found something very useful: a history of interactions! Some contacts have more information on them than others, and you might have to scroll down to get going, but if you do – you will…
Do Life
I have an addiction. I’m addicted to learning. Not just liking to learn new things, but a real obsession. I found Overdrive at our library. I find wonderful non-fiction audio books that I listen to during my short work commute. The last book I consumed was Do Life. While it talked about a journey from…
Google+ Hangouts
Hangouts is another new feature of Google+ that has many applications to learning, especially for online classes. Many times, in an online class, students want to meet up synchronously. This new Google tool allows just that. The “face-to-face” aspect of a traditional classroom is accomplished by the use of video cameras — up to nine…
Click and Shop
These days, I find it easier to let my “fingers do the walking” when shopping for school supplies. Amazon has just made it easier. For college students, check out: It is also required by law now that our college list textbooks that are to be used in our courses so that students can “shop” around…
Welcome to My Blog!
What an original title for this post! Well, I hope to use this blog in my never-ending struggle to become paperless! I plan to post things here as I think of them, and as I find a need to save this information in a place where I can find it again — and again —…
This is it — at last!
I have finally decided that this is it! I am sticking to this to keep track of all my thoughts and insights. It might be a tad eclectic, but you have to admit that it is fun! I have chosen WordPress as my tool. It promised a 5-minute install — and that is all it…