Creating a Professional Development Plan

Do you have a Professional Development plan for your organization?  If you do, how detailed is your plan?  Are you implementing it?  If you don’t have a plan, why haven’t you created one?  How are you providing training to your staff? What about for...

5 Ways I’m Using Google Voice

What is Google Voice? Google Voice is a web-based service from Google that allows you to manage voice services along with allowing you to make computer to computer calls, video calls and computer to phone calls.  There are many uses of Google Voice but here are some...

5 Gmail Tips to Improve Your Productivity

So, I thought I would give you my top 5 Gmail tips in order to improve your productivity. #5 – Tasks: You can easily create a “Tasks List” simply by clicking on the “Tasks” link that is located under “Contacts”.   You can also...

Broadcasting your message with uStream

Have you ever wanted to broadcast an event via video but thought it was too difficult or too expensive? Perhaps it was a school play, a product release or even your church services.  Well, you can now easily stream video to the Internet for free with uStream.tv....

Communicating via podcasting

Are you a teacher, minister or business owner who has always wanted to get your message out to your stakeholders? Your message could be anything from classroom announcements to your homily to a marketing message. And your stakeholders are your students and their...

Saving time with Google Alerts

Hopefully you are well aware of the advanced search techniques available in Google. So, let’s say that you are doing a research project for work or school. You go to Google and type in your search, let’s say that you want research on education technology....

Discovering Social Studies

Here is a Slideshare version of the presentation I’m doing during the Discovery Education precon session at PETE&C. Discovering social studies petec 2011 Be sure to check out Patriot Pete and Civil War Sallie

Cyberbullying Interview

Check out this interview that I did with the guys from Geek Dads Weekly on Cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is when individuals use various forms of technology, such as cell phones or email, to intentionally harm another person.  Our discussion revolves around kids and...

RSS Aggregators

In our last post, we discussed the power of RSS and how it can save you time. Today, I want to talk about how you can capture these RSS feeds in a single location. To capture these feeds you need some type of aggregator. I personally use Google Reader for my feeds. It...

What is RSS and why should you use it

I am often asked the question, “what exactly is RSS”? So, I thought I would put together a post explaining RSS and how you can use it in your organization. What is RSS? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and simply put it is a format that websites...