Goldilocks and the Task Management Apps

It feels like I have been searching for a great task manager forever. The longer I look and test products, the more I feel like Goldilocks…

“This one’s too flat.”

“That one’s too complicated.”

“That one’s too difficult to view.”

…and so on.

Back in my Palm III days I used LifeBalance by Llamagraphics. […]

Our Final Student Username Solution, For Now..

I greatly appreciate all the comments on my earlier post and on Twitter regarding protocols for student usernames. I brought your collective wisdom to a meeting of the other tech coordinators and our director of IT. We had another good conversation as we tried to find a way get graduation year into the username, since […]

Tech Tools for Writing – Survey Results

This term I was planning on teaching three optional staff tech integration workshops around the theme of tech tool for writing. I posted a survey on my blog requesting suggestions and I received really useful responses.

Here is a HUGE thank you to all who responded. Not only did I use many of the […]

What Does Zimmer Twins Have to do with the Revolutionary War?

In a recent post I asked for help in planning a three-part workshop for my staff on ways to use technology to support writing development. Soon I will write a post to share all of the great responses I received. In the meantime, let me share one of them, ZimmerTwins.com.

I first learned of it […]

Embed Live Spreadsheet into a Web Page

I just had a Geek Moment…

As my family plans our trip to New Zealand, the need arose to have a place on the wiki to record expenses as they are accrued. For example, much to her surprise, my sister just discovered that the hotel rooms she booked for us on Stewart Island have already […]

Finally Diving into Diigo

More notes. This time an informal Edubloggercon session to get us started with Diigo. Alice Mercer along with Margaret Tsai who is one of the developers of Diigo and Jen Dorman who has been using it with her students.

(I know. I’m probably the last person to look at Diigo. What can I say? I […]