EverNote is an online application, computer program (PC and Mac), and an iPhone and iPad application which allows you to keep what you find. You can clip pieces of web pages, bookmark whole pages, enter any document from your computer, record audio, video, or pictures into EverNote, you can scan pictures and documents, Literally anything [...]

If you have read a couple of my previous posts, go might be able to assume that I am interested in getting rid of a lot of paper, and that, more generally, I am interested in simplifying my life. I saw a review of the ScanDock (a collapsible cardboard ‘scanner’ platform which uses the iPhone [...]

I have too much stuff, we all have too much stuff, and with this in mind I have been working to fix my situation. I used to have well over a thousand Cd’s (now the equivalent rests on a couple external hard drives), I used to have hundreds of DVD’s (their equivalents are also resting [...]

There are a lot of topics to give thought to in the area of education. Obviously, there are a few which need this effort in order to understand them, but there are quite a few more which need some thought about understanding why… One of these ideas (sic) is one which has been bothering me [...]

I am left thinking that it is some sort of an open secret that all bloggers have to post something about the iPad. I am not immune to this secret ‘law’ so, here is my perspective about the iPad in education. The iPad certainly looks cool, it looks like it should be a prop on [...]

Literally every teacher I have known in the last twenty years knows what Microsoft PowerPoint is. Most of them have, and are writing presentations using that warhorse of a program. When I worked in the private sector, almost every manager I ever dealt with used PowerPoint. I have been subjected to almost innumerable PowerPoint presentations [...]

I’ve made some lists of the tools I use, but today I want to talk about some of the ubiquitous tools that almost all teachers either have or have access to. As with any job, it is always worthwhile to take care of the tools you have. In the computer world, the tools we use [...]