You might once have been a great speller, but now do you rely heavily on that little red underline and autocorrect? Well, you’re not alone! Recently, I stumbled across Grammarly Apps that connects to Google Chrome, Microsoft Office, and Windows. As you are typing, Grammarly is hard at work making sure what you are typing makes sense…
Don’t Have Clickers? Use Plickers!
Clickers are a physical device used with some software that helps you quiz and poll your students. Sometimes, textbooks are bundled with clickers and questions to be used specifically with a given textbook. What if you don’t have access to those? Welcome, Plickers! Plickers allow you to print out (or order) cards that students hold up…
The Classroom Architect
The Classroom Architect is a tool that allows you to easily create a classroom layout with your learning goals in mind. The only downside that I see for this tool, is that it uses Adobe Flash. If they upgrade to an HTML version, it would be a super tool. I have previously used the 4Teachers website…
Presentations, Elevator Speech, Fear of Public Speaking
I had the privilege of meeting Fred Miller when he spoke at a National Collegiate Conference for the Association of Information Technology Professionals. He had just written his first book, No Sweat Public Speaking!. From his website (https://nosweatpublicspeaking.com/) I see that he has written a few more: No Sweat Elevator Speech!, No Sweat! The Fear of…
The Noun Project
Do you need a quick graphic? Maybe the Noun Project is for you. I was introduced to the Noun Project in Tony Vincent’s Classy Graphics class that I took last summer. It is a great place to find very simple graphics. I was able to use them in some projects, giving attribution to the Noun…
Mom, Look at the Mountains!
My daughter looked at the top of my Chrome Web Browser and said, “Mom, look at those mountains!” I gave her a puzzled look. Living in Iowa, we don’t see many (actually, any) mountains when we look out our window. She pointed to the top of my screen. Yes, they did look like mountains. I…
Automated Chat Worked Like a Charm!
Well, the Twitter Chat Using Twittimer worked great for sending out the automatic tweets with the questions. I could not have asked for a better moderator! Once again, I learned that with my classes; asynchronous communication is the best. Like some of my online orientation chats where I am alone in that chat room, I…
Twitter Chat Scheduled — Twittimer Set Up to Fire Off Questions
Well, it is time to experiment! The Twitter Chat has been scheduled! It has also been scheduled using Twittimer so that the questions will fire off in 5 minute increments. I hope you will join me for this experiment, check it out live or “after the fact.” Also, check back here tomorrow for a reflection…
Hosting an Unattended Educational Twitter Chat
I have attended several educational Twitter Chats in the past. I decided to host my own. My schedule is so unpredictable at the moment that I am not sure that I will be available online when I want the Twitter Chat to occur. So, I am planning an “unattended” Educational Twitter Chat. Hopefully, I will…
Connecting Your Blog to Twitter for Automatic Posts
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,…