Google Voice Is Calling

Last year a friend told me about this neat application called Grand Central that gave you a centralized phone number which, when called, would ring to any phone number(s) that you wanted. When I heard about this I immediately went to sign-up. Unfortunately at that point Grand Central was defunct. However, Google had taken it over and there was a post stating it was coming soon and I could sign-up to be notified when it was ready. Of course I did. Now, a year later, Google Voice is finally… Continue reading

What The Heck Is That?

Today was funny (peculiar, not haha). Yesterday when I started thinking about posting my top Google tips I knew that I wanted today’s post to be about Google Reader (a tool I heavily rely on). Then today I was showing my site to my husband and three teachers. Each of them asked “what is that little thing in the coffee cup?” (BTW, a HUGE thank you to the maker of this theme, Edward Caissie for doing so much to make my cute little icon work!). My response was, “that’s how you can… Continue reading

Google Rules The World!

If you do a search for the phrase “Google Rules The World” you will come up with 2,010 hits on Google, and about the same number on Yahoo. My point is there’s lots of chatter about Google and their enormous suite of products (I don’t even know all of them). Then why is it that so few educators (that I know) use Google products? As I was talking with a friend the other day it occurred to me that many just don’t know about all Google has to offer. Continue reading

Web 2.0 USB “Keys”

Kevin Hutchinson, creator of the iConnect iLearn Ning site, came up with an amazing idea to make a web 2.0 key chain. He took a bunch of great sites and added them to “keys”, laminated them, then put them all on a key ring. It is such a great way to have your top sites right in front of you. You can see his creation at the iConnect iLearn Ning.

I love Kevin’s idea, but the keys just weren’t doing it for me. So I decided… Continue reading

The Amazing Drop.io

I heard about Drop.io last year and immediately thought of a dozen ways to use it in my personal life. In fact, it just came in handy when I needed to get a huge slideshow to a friend for use in his wedding. However, the more I thought about it the more I realized just how useful a tool Drop.io could be in my classroom.

First let me back-up a few months… Sometime last Spring I read a blog (I am SO sorry I don’t… Continue reading