Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

MakeUseOf gave the link out to HiTask as an advanced to-do and project collaboration tool. Currently I’ve been pretty happy using ToDoist as my personal to-do-list; however, it really doesn’t have a share feature. It appears MakeUseOf has a comparison listing of to-do and project collaboration tools. Ultimately I can see these types of tools, [...]

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http://futuremail.bensinclair.com/
(from: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/makeuseof-extra-43-web-goodies-and-tips/)
How would I use this with my students? Easy…have them set up email reminders for deadlines and such on the first day of class. How wonderful is that? Honestly, however, I’m thinking this could be a useful tool for myself as well. I’m constantly emailing myself with notes. Wouldn’t it be great to acknowledge [...]

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http://www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc/archives/006375.php
James, one of the cool and hip dudes in our CTL, just told me about the Firefox addon Snapper. It basically allows you to snip images from a webpage and downloads them as PNG (Portable Network Graphic) files. For those of us who ask students to play with new technologies, and need to make [...]

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Now that I’ve understood what Greasemonkey does for about two weeks, I’m still trying to find scripts and play with it. This Adaptive Blue seems like another page adapter.
Greasemonkey
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
Greasemonkey is one of the many wonderful Firefox addons. Once you load Greasemonkey on your browser you get a little monkey face in the lower [...]

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http://www.getgspace.com/
Last week (or maybe it was the week before) I read about using Gspace as online server space. So…it uses 2GB of a person’s gmail account as backup server space. I’m all about finding spaces for students to save their work; especially when they don’t own their own computer. On the one hand, I like [...]

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I’m sure by this point you are probably asking yourself about the “real” reason I went to CCCCs, to learn from my colleagues. Or in other words, “Shelley, did you go to any panels?” Yes, yes I did. However, I’m not going to be blogging about the panels in my blog. Instead, I’m going to [...]

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Well, I’ve had my Sandbox series this year. It didn’t end so hot this spring semester. Between my changing calendar and the CTLs new workshop scheduling system…we didn’t see much happening. However, I think the CTL and I got the word out to a number of faculty and staff about some cool tools. In the [...]

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Although the two tools listed below might have been extremely helpful for you during your research process in this course…we can only cover so many things, right? Now, if you plan on continuing your scholarly endeavors (or heck, do research in your profession), check out the following two tools:

Basecamp (http://www.basecamphq.com/index)—Basecamp is a collaborative project manager [...]

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If you own your own computer, it is worth the time to personalize your tools so that you are more efficient and don’t have to remember where everything is. One of the easiest ways to do that with your internet tools is with your internet browser. First, let’s talk about your [...]

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Rule #1: Always save your work!
Rule #2: Always save your work in more than one location!

Consider savings current versions of all your major projects after you work on them in a number of locations. Of course you will want to keep them on some type of portable storage that you keep with [...]

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