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One service I am finding very useful lately is Aardvark (vark.com). The concept behind Aardvark is simple: people are nice and are usually very willing to answer questions about concepts they know about. Aardvark is the connection between people with questions and people with answers. … Continue reading Amazing Program: Aardvark What is #EdChat? EdChat is a chat created by educators for educators that takes place on Twitter using the hashtag #EdChat. You can find out more about what exactly it is by watching the video below, and by visiting here. #Edchat takes place on Twitter Tuesdays from 11am-12pm and again from 6pm-7pm.
I am just starting out using EdChat, and so I had to figure out how to do it, and how to do it in the most productive and effective way. I am still learning, but I thought I would put together this document for those like me who want … Continue reading Participating In #EdChat A real live Google Wave embedded in a blog for ALL to see (not just those who have a Google Wave account!). In the past I was able to embed a Google Wave into a blog post, but it could only be seen by people who had Google Wave accounts (a select few), which was a HUGE downside. Today Google has released the ability to put up a wave that EVERYONE can see. … Continue reading A Live Google Wave on my Blog I’m using my first Google form to ask for some feedback from those who find themselves on … Continue reading Feedback appreciated! With the development of Google Docs (http://docs.google.com/), one has to do word processing on their computer less and less. Working online is usually faster (just a browser to load), and allows your data to be stored in “the cloud”–that is, online rather than on your computer, making the files more secure. However, for mathematicians there has always been a problem with this–LaTeX. Many of us use LaTeX to write everything. Academic papers, tests and exams, assignments, and even worksheets and letters (my CV was even made in LaTeX). Because of this there has not been much opportunity to switch over to using … Continue reading Writing Math on the internet! This site I have to credit my amazing wife for finding. Invitationland is an online program/website designed to help you create professional looking invitations! They have both a free service anyone can use and a membership ($) service that can be used to access more styles of invitations, but the free service is quite impressive. It is essentially an online version of Microsoft Publisher, and allows you to download a pdf of your invite when you are done! I was very impressed at how easy it was to make an invitation, especially for the more computer illiterate like my wife. She loves the … Continue reading Amazing Program: Invitationland I have just found two great plugins for wordpress that allow viewing and posting from a mobile phone!! They are both from the company Wapple, and are free!! Do a search in your plugin installer and you’ll find … Continue reading First post from cell phone Ever find a song on YouTube you like and would love to have on your Mp3 player? Or maybe you want to be able to listen to your favourite VLOGer on your mp3 player. Check out http://www.video2mp3.net/. Very impressed with it–downloaded quickly, converted quickly, and came out in great quality! … Continue reading Amazing Program: Converting YouTube to Mp3 This is not really a program, but it is awesome, so I wanted to include it here. StatCounter is a great website that offers free website tracking. If you have a website, I highly recommend getting it. It allows you to view where your users are coming from, what parts of your site they go to most, how they get to your site, and even where in the world they are! There is a surprising amount of detail you can get from someone just going to your website. They offer subscriptions where you get more info, but you can get quite a … Continue reading Amazing Program: StatCounter I use this program on a nearly daily basis. It is so useful. Problem: You work at both school (or work) and home, and you need to transfer files in between. You tried emailing yourself files for a while, but found that annoying. You picked up a USB Key, and so you transfer files with that now, but it is hard to try to copy over just the files you edited on a daily basis, and sometimes you forget one or two. So you say to yourself “there’s got to be a better way!” Solution: Try SyncBack. At … Continue reading Amazing Program: Syncback |
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