Category Archives: TeacherHax
Free Tools, the Distorted Web, Privacy, and Your Students' Critical Thinking Skills
Until I saw this TED talk, I didn’t care much that free Web 2.0 tools like Google and Facebook were collecting massive dossiers of information about my online habits. I thought they were just using it to serve me more … Continue reading
Posted in EdTech, Featured, TeacherHax, Web 2.0
Tagged Android, big brother, Bing, Critical thinking, Duck Duck Go, edtech, education, facebook, george orwell, google, Google Search, NPR, privacy, search, Student, teacher, TeacherHax, teaching, web 2.0, Web search engine, webapps
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Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part II: Showing What You Know
In Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part I, you learned to find and organize information that will teach you, challenge your ideas, and help you stay on top of interesting new developments in your areas of interest. The second part of … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Featured, Learning Communities, TeacherHax
Tagged Diigo, education, Electronic portfolio, eportfolio, facebook, Google Reader, Learning, LinkedIn, Personal Learning Network, teaching
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f.lux– A Plugin To Save Your Eyes
A couple months ago I added a free, open source plugin to my Mac called f.lux that promises to relieve eye strain and insomnia caused by blue screen glare. It adjusts my screen’s color temperature based on the time of … Continue reading
Posted in Free Apps, TeacherHax
Tagged Color temperature, computers, Conditions and Diseases, eye health, Health, Light, Linux, mac, RSI, Sleep Disorders, windows
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Cultivate your Personal Learning Network
This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to use, I want to talk about why you would do this in the first place…. This … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Featured, TeacherHax, Web 2.0
Tagged BBC, Clients, edtech, education, google, Google Reader, igoogle, lifehacks, New York Times, Online Communities, Personal Learning Network, Personal Learning Networks, Professional development, rss, Social media, social networking, teacher, technology, twitter, web 2.0, wordpress, WWW
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Ge.tt: Simple Sharing of Large Files (Remember Drop.io?)
Ge.tt is a great free tool for quickly and easily sharing files that are too large to send by email (up to 100mb). As a digital art teacher, I often had students trying to send me videos, flash files, audio, … Continue reading
Posted in Free Apps, TeacherHax
Tagged Computer file, Drag-and-drop, drop.io, Dropbox, facebook, Ge.tt, Uploading and downloading, Web Applications
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Did You Know? A Simple Trick to Save Time and Improve Your Course Evaluations!
As faculty, you likely spend several hours every week carefully reading, evaluating, and grading student work. Research shows that students report higher course satisfaction when they get better grades and when faculty exhibit “immediacy and presence behaviors”. This finding … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, TeacherHax
Tagged April Fools' Day, Arts, Crafts, education, facebook, Faculty (university), Rubber stamp, Student
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LMS Evaluation: Which Tools do Faculty Really Use? (Updated)
During the process of evaluating Blackboard as our Learning Management System (LMS), we came to a basic and fundamental question: “Which tools are faculty really using?” Although most of the core functions of an online course can be managed with … Continue reading
Did you know? Your Smartphone is a Powerful Medical Reference Tool!
The adoption of Android and iOS smartphones “skyrocketed” in 2010, which means ever more health sciences students, faculty, and staff have access to powerful mini-computers in their pockets. With this rise came a new crop of excellent free medical apps that … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, Android Market, app, Apple, Apps, Handhelds, iOS, iPad, iphone, IPod Touch, Medicine, Nursing, Smartphone
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