Finding new technology so you don't have to
There is a lot of confusion around copyright. What can you use? What can’t you use? How much can you use? A few years ago, I participated in an excellent Educause course on copyright hosted by Thomas Tobin (University of… Read moreCopyright: What instructors need to consider
Since I posted about Dot cards a couple weeks ago, they’ve added a new feature called dot.Exchange. If you’re not already familiar with Dot cards, please read that previous blog post first. The rest of this will make much more… Read moreDot cards: New feature makes it easier for others to share their info with you
I want to pronounce the names of others how they want them pronounced, and I assume that others feel the same way about my name—that they want to pronounce it as I pronounce it. Let’s make it easy for everyone… Read moreHelp others pronounce your name with NameCoach
Are you ready to stop carrying around business cards? Or, perhaps more accurately, are you ready to stop forgetting your business cards at home? I just got back from the American Psychological Association’s 2023 convention where I made liberal use… Read moreA more useful—and cheaper—business card: Dot cards
Using AI to detect AI feels like a little like the start of the robot wars. Yet here we are. The makers of GPTZero—the ChatGPT/AI detector—have released a Chrome extension (from your Chrome browser, download it here). Once you have… Read moreChatGPT/AI detector: Chrome extension
In what feels like eons ago, I wrote a blog post on protecting your data when in public. I looked up that post. I published it on January 20, 2020, just three months before most of us stopped going out… Read moreStay safe: USB condoms, VPNs, and travel routers (reprise)
Anyone who does research writing needs a pdf and citation manager. I had been a fan of Mendeley until they were bought by Elsevier who changed the code in a way that made it no longer usable for me. Those… Read moreZotero: Adding reference items to this pdf/citation manager
For those of you who use Zotero as your go-to pdf and reference manager, you may have encountered problems with citing advance online publications as needed in APA style. I’ve learned the secret. Here’s the citation I am aiming to… Read moreZotero: Adding “Advance online publication” to APA reference
As I get ready for next term, I’ve copied my fall Canvas course into next term’s course. My Trello “course reset” checklist tells me that I need to delete all of my course announcements. As of this writing, the only… Read moreCanvas: Delete all announcements at once
If you have updated Windows 11 recently, you have a new feature that will make your life a little easier. It comes without fanfare and therefore is easy to miss. File explorer tabs Open file explorer—that’s what you use to… Read moreWindows 11: File explorer now has tabs