Learn By Doing

A Lifelong Learner Shares Thoughts About Education

Category: Resources

  • A Guide for Teachers to Make Videos On The Web

    I use dedicated desktop tools but I am always asked what an overview of tools and a reasonable classroom process to completing videos just using tools available on the web.  Yet each teacher has a different goal and objective for both the process and the product.  Here is a great online free resource from Richard…

  • What Do You Love? Look at Google Differently

    What Do You Love? 7/12/2011 10:09:00 AM A while back, a few of us wanted to make a little tool that we could use to show just about anybody more of what Google makes. That led to some simple ideas, and then a few more ideas and ultimately, to a challenge: how we could connect…

  • Lino It: The Great Online Stickies Tool

    Yes scrumblr and wallwisher are nice, but they aren’t good enough for today.  Wallwisher is way too slow and scrumblr is nice enough.  Lino It  @ en.linoit.com rocks.  Youtube videos, larger boards, iPhone, sync with Google Calendar, Chrome app, and more.  Embedded one with Moodle today and looking forward to using it with Podcasting class…

  • How to Use Box.Net with Windows Explorer

    Like so many I began using Box.Net along with other cloud services.  Recently I ran across this article on How To Upload Files To The Awesome Box.Net Directly from Windows Explorer from MakeUseOf.  For those who use WebDAV this is a very nice shortcut to using Box.Net without having to make life complicated with a…

  • Use The Cloud: MS Office Using Google Docs

    Today I am working with Google Apps collaboration using MS Office tools on the front end: multi-person, simultaneous editing to the Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint application.  I have some files and assignments that I can’t simply convert to Google Docs but need the benefits of web-powered collaboration: online backup, view only web sharing, file revision…