International Ed Tech Guy

​ Many people need some ‘background’ noise to study.   Focus@Will is a cool site that plays music that has been researched to improve studying!  You can get a 15 day trial to this to check it out.  You can select your type of music for example classical, ambient, water and even one specially designed for those…

As you write that research paper sometimes it is a struggle to avoid plagarism.  With so many great resources in electronic format it becomes very easy to ‘copy and paste’ information directly into your paper.  Remember that you must cite direct quotes or better yet paraphrase great information.  Grammarly is a great way to avoid plagarism.   Not only does…

This week I am sending out a massive resource I’ve created over a couple of years.  Check out my Tips and Tricks page.  There are 4 general areas each have listed under them different technology tools as well as a short review.  The areas are Technology Tips and Efficiency Tools, Web Based Enhancements, Video and Photo…

  PDF’s can be great and helpful.  Usually you have to submit these pdf’s to some where or need to send it to someone.  As a result sometimes it is necessary to compress these files so they will go through email or meet system upload requirements.  Smallpdf is an awesome site I found that actually takes…

Smallpdf PDF’s can be great and helpful.  Usually you have to submit these pdf’s to some where or need to send it to someone.  As a result sometimes it is necessary to compress these files so they will go through email or meet system upload requirements.  Smallpdf is an awesome site I found that actually takes…

​ IT HAS FINALLY ARRIVED!  I’ve been predicting for a long time that Google would come out with the best voice typing tool.  In other tech positions I’ve held in the past I have tested this types of tools literally for years and they were hard to setup and generally not that good.  Today I tested…

  ​ Right now do you have more tabs open than you can actually read?  I do and it is generally a problem.  Having too many tabs open can slow browsers, be distracting and generally less than productive.  Here is something to try –OneTab – it is a simple add on to Chrome or Firefox.  It…

Loads of people do not really like the newest version of Photos for various reasons.  However the new Photos has an abundance of tools to manipulate your photos.  Simply open Photos and then click the ‘Edit’ button in the upper righthand corner.  You can crop, rotate, edit, filter, retouch and many other manipulations.  It is…

​ I am always on the lookout for Extensions or tech tools that help us improve our productivity and reduce distractions.  I’ve recommended WebTimer in the past but recently I came across Time Tracker.  This is a great Extension for Chrome that actually tracks the sites you are on and the actual time spent on that individual site.…