A Memorial Day Story

On May 30, 2011, my family and I attended the 144th Annual Memorial Day Parade in Gettysburg (after the boys marched as Cub Scouts in the Carlisle parade).  While it was EXTREMELY hot that day, I had a terrific time with the family touring the battlefield and watching...

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...

My Top 5 Free iPhone Apps

As I use my new iPhone more and more, I have actually noticed that I am using a few applications all day everyday.  So, I thought I would take a minute and tell you about my top 5 iPhone Apps and how I use them. Evernote – is an online system that allows me to...

Creative Commons Searching

If you are doing a presentation, movie, website or project you are at some point going to be looking for images or graphics to put into your work.  Now, you could do a Google Image search, find the image(s) you want, save them to your computer and then post them to...

Non-linear Powerpoint Presentations

Linear versus Non-linear PowerPoint If you think of most PowerPoint presentations that you have seen, I would venture a guess that most (if not all) have been linear.  In other words, the presenter went from Slide 1 to Slide 2 to Slide 3, and on and on until you...