The staff and students of the University of Wellington learned this lesson when maintenance on the computers and network went terribly wrong: A grad student reported that not “only files on the desktop were gone” but “my whole computer had been reset, too,” which would be consistent with an AD operation removing her user…
The first issue of what I will be offering as a monthly newsletter on educational technology issues is now available. Staff members will receive a paper copy in their mailbox, and everyone can download a copy here. If you are interested in writing an article or are doing engaging and innovative work in your classroom…
I had this extension installed in Chrome for awhile, PDFescape, but today was the first time I ‘ve really had a chance to look at it. It allows you to type on PDFs or create forms out of PDFs. Once created, these PDFs can be filled out by students online through the PDFescape website, Apple…
Google has an online course with 8 lessons on using Google Classroom. Check it out: https://www.google.com/edu/training/get-trained/classroom/basics.html
There is a Google Talk extension available for Chrome that pulls the chat windows out of GMail and keeps them running even if you close all of your Google Chrome windows.