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Earlier this year Google announced it was pulling the plug on Google Reader July 1, 2013. I recommended trying Old Reader or Feedly. Personally, I’ve settled on Feedly; their responsiveness to the demand following Google’s announcement and to the feature… Read moreFeedly: Prepared to Disconnect from Google Reader?
A year ago, I wrote about how the ability to tell time on an analog clock was going the way of the slide rule. Watches, digital and analog, have largely disappeared. Why wear one when you have a cell phone… Read moreDisplaying the time during tests
One of my colleagues asked how to insert a video into a Word document. Here are excellent instructions for inserting a YouTube video. If his instructions for getting the “Developer” tab don’t work for you, see these instructions. Email… Read moreInserting a YouTube Video in Word Document
In March 2012 I wrote about SendHub, a platform for texting a group of people all at once. Cel.ly is a similar service with a free space for educators. Unlike SendHub, with Cel.ly, students do not see my phone number… Read moreCel.ly: Text Message Your Classes for Free
CleanPrint gives you the power to print or save only the content you want from a webpage. Add a note if you’d like. Add CleanPrint as an extension to your browser. What’s especially cool is that multi-page articles are automatically… Read moreCleanPrint: Print/Save Only What You Want
Not long ago I wrote about Akindi (see this post). Print out your own bubble sheets or send to students to print their own. After the test, scan the completed bubble sheets into a PDF to grade them. The good… Read moreAkindi: Update
You don’t have time to read the New York Times cover to cover or time to spend all day watching CNN. You don’t have time to visit your favorite journals in the library to see if there’s anything relevant to… Read moreKeeping Up with New Information: The Magic of RSS
[Update 4/3/2013: At the time of this writing, the answer form has 75 questions; they’re working on a 100-question form. In this post, I suggested using a mobile app like CamScanner for turning the completed forms into a PDF. Akindi does… Read moreScantron Alternative: Akindi
For the YouCanBook.Me users (see this blog post for more info about this service), did you know that you can let more than one person sign up for a given time slot? Let’s say that you wanted to do group… Read moreYouCanBook.Me: “Units per slot”
“What’s an RSS feed reader?” If you’ve been bopping around the tech blogs, you’ve been hearing a lot about RSS feed readers lately. If you haven’t been using an RSS reader, you may be wondering what the hubbub is all… Read moreTheOldReader & Feedly: Google Reader Replacements