Skills

Focus on these essential skills to guide your students to increased digital fluency where they can act ethically, responsibly, and productively. These articles features what I believe are the fundamental digital skills every educator should possess. Check them out and share with us your feedback in the comments section.

Share A File in Google Drive — There are 3 reasons for this article. Number 1: there are no dumb questions. Number 2: you need to know this. Number 3: sharing options in Drive can be more complicated than you would expect. This is a tutorial so you can master how to share a file in Google […]

How To Share a File in Google Drive

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Salvage Your Privacy Lady Bird — Another day, another astonishing assault on people’s privacy. This time the proportions in the Cambridge Analytica scandal are properly epic. The company built 230 million psychological and political profiles using data harvested from Facebook without users’ consent. These profiles were allegedly used in manipulative social media campaigns during the referendum […]

Salvage Your Privacy While Online

This entry was posted in Skills and tagged Browser Browser Extensions Privacy by Victor Boulanger

Let's have a look at how Gmail generates your list of contacts and how to clean Gmail contacts you will not be writing to anymore.

Clean Gmail Contacts

This entry was posted in Skills and tagged Google Apps Google Mail Organization Productivity by Victor Boulanger

Ultimate Guide to WordPress Website — WordPress powers 28% of all websites on the Internet and yet creating a website with WordPress requires no coding HTML skills. But this is not to say that the process is straight forward. As the Swiss army knife of web design, the WordPress dashboard can be difficult to navigate. It […]

The Ultimate Guide to a WordPress Website

This entry was posted in Skills and tagged Publications Teacher Website Wordpress by Victor Boulanger

5 Pro Tips for the Perfect Inbox — Master your Gmail inbox with this very short training and never miss an important email anymore. Here are five pro tips for the perfect gmail inbox. Watch the training video for an overview, and dive in with the details below when you are ready to conquer. Tip 1 Filter Important […]

5 Pro Tips for the Perfect Gmail Inbox

This entry was posted in Skills and tagged Google Mail Productivity by Victor Boulanger

Partial Screenshot to the Clipboard on a Mac — Taking a screenshot on your computer is a skill you learn early on, alongside the shortcuts for copying and pasting. In lesson plans, emails, tutorials, and other documents, sharing a picture of your entire desktop or a small snapshot of a detail happens routinely. But have you truly mastered the art […]

Master the Art of the Screenshot

This entry was posted in Skills and tagged Image Productivity Screenshot by Victor Boulanger

Take Teaching to the Next Level — If you want to take teaching to the next level, you have to look beyond the walls of your classroom and collaborate on a global scale. Teachers must model collaboration to students so they in turn can use these skills in the digital world in which they are already immersed. We […]

Take Teaching to the Next Level

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Keep your password safe — Today we will review the best ways to keep your accounts safe. The cardinal rule is very simple to follow: use a different password for every single account you own. Sounds impossible? We will look at ways to make this happen without erasing the milk from your mental shopping list. But first, […]

Keep Your Accounts Safe

This entry was posted in Skills and tagged Hacking Password Phishing Security by Victor Boulanger

QR Code — The traditional center rotation involves students moving from one area to another, and at each stop they learn something new. Using multimedia in your lessons can guide students towards accessing information they can research on their own. In this article, we will look at 3 easy ways to create media-rich lessons.

Create Media-Rich Lessons

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