Category: <span>What I’m Using</span>

What I'm Using: Ballloon, for saving images and links to Google Drive without the download and upload dance.

I really like how slick this app is for saving things to google drive. It puts a cute little icon on every image that allows me to save directly to Drive. It is wonderful. Chrome Web Store – Save image & link to Google Drive Ballloon – Save webfiles (image, …

What I'm Using: Google Docs Add-On for keeping track of what is shared outside your GAFE domain.

While it only scans the first 10,000 files in your Google Drive, it is highly unlikely that most of you will have that many. I really like having this amazing list of all of my Google Docs and the folks that it is shared with. Interestingly, this also works with …

What I'm Learning: Dragon Quest (Choose Your Own Adventure Google Presentations)

I have always known that this capability existed within Google Presentations, but I didn’t have a great example of it until now. Eric Curts is a master of this, and the example is something you could lose yourself in for a few minutes or hours. Thank you, Eric! Dragon Quest! …

What I'm Using: Thunderclap (social media as currency for kickstarting an idea)

I’m very excited about the idea of using social media as currency within a kickstarter-like program. Go and check it out, because it kind of boggles the mind with possibility. Thunderclap If a tweet falls in the forest… Social media is an easy way to say something, but it’s a …

What I'm Reading: Free Twitter course for Parents and Educators

I like the focus of this course (parents and educators, specifically). I also like just how much purpose there is for each “assignment”. You are actually Tweeting in order to learn how to tweet. Anyway, I thought I would pass it along. Learn Twitter – Joe Mazza Free Twitter 101 …

Project Roundtable: Access and Equity In and Through BYOD and 1:1

Thank you so much for taking part. This was a wonderful Roundtable. Here is what you can do to keep the conversation going: 1. Keep on collaborating in the planning doc: http://bit.ly/equityroundtable  2. Submit a reflection and earn a badge: http://badges.p2pu.org/en/badge/view/398/  3. Create your own Roundtable for you school/district: http://bit.ly/createroundtable *Roundtable Purpose:* To …

What I'm Learning: App Smashing is awesome!

What I used to call creating a workflow somehow got changed into something much more wonderful: App Smashing. Essentially, all you are doing is making or creating things using multiple apps before you get a final result. These are things that come naturally to some and are much harder for …