Using Google Alerts to Monitor Your Organization

Google Alerts Simply stated, Google alerts are free email updates from Google search results about any topic you’re interested in tracking. Why should you and your organization use Google Alerts?  Personally, I track numerous search terms for various topics and...

Improving Productivity with Google Forms

Have you ever wanted to quickly create a web form to survey or collect information from your students, faculty, staff or stakeholders?  If you answered yes, then you will definitely want to check out Google Forms. I use Google Forms for my graduate courses to collect...

Some of my favorite tools

As you can see I have a Tools page setup to share with you some of the tools that I use on a regular (often daily) basis.  So, I thought I would take a few moments to highlight a few of my favorites. Wikispaces Hands down, Wikispaces is my favorite website for...

Getting Started with Google Docs

How many times have you typed up a document, emailed it to a colleague for review, go it back, made your edits, sent it BACK for review, and so on until you have five or six versions of a document and a clogged up inbox? I know, some of you have a network and can...