Personal Productivity Powered by Technology [Infographic]

Personal Productivity Powered by Technology [Infographic]

Nowadays many of us carry smartphones and tablets, keep a digital calendar, and work from multiple computers. Chances are you feel like a slave to email, having perhaps hundreds of messages in your inbox. You probably spend a lot of time online and might have trouble managing all of your files among your devices. Instead of blaming technology, let's use that technology to make you more productive!

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Sorting, Labeling & Matching iPad Games

Sorting, Labeling & Matching iPad Games

Learning in Hand #27 is all about the Stick Around app for iPad. The idea behind Stick Around is simple: players move stickers onto the correct spots on a background. The thing is, you not only use Stick Around to play these sticker puzzles, but you use it to create them as well! Watch the 9 minute video to get a taste of what you can create with Stick Around.

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3 iPad Apps You May Not Know About for Demonstrating Learning

3 iPad Apps You May Not Know About for Demonstrating Learning

While there are so many iPad apps that deliver content, I think the one of the best uses for technology in education is to make something with what you're learning. This might include producing a video, authoring a digital book, recording a puppet show, creating a college, narrating a slideshow, designing a comic book, or somehow making your own media and study aids.

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Get a Free Copy of My New iPad App, Stick Around!

Get a Free Copy of My New iPad App, Stick Around!

If you haven’t heard, my educational iPad app, Stick Around, is now available in the App Store! I worked with MorrisCooke  the design studio behind Explain Everything to make an app I wish I had when I was a classroom teacher. Stick Around invites teachers and students to design, play, and share their own sorting, matching, and labeling puzzles. Watch the 99 second preview video to get a taste of what Stick Around can do.

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What I Bought in 2013

What I Bought in 2013

It is time for my yearly post about the technology I've purchased during the past year. You can view my previous posts for 201220112010, and 2009  Since I make presentations and facilitate workshops about all sorts of different technologies, I try to get my hands on devices and gadgets that I think might be helpful to teachers. Some of these items I highly recommend. Others are ones I wish I didn’t waste my money on. Some things are stupidly expensive while a few are pretty cheap.

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Tech Tip Tuesdays on Twitter and Facebook

Tech Tip Tuesdays on Twitter and Facebook

I have been tweeting tech tips on Tuesday mornings. The tips have mostly about iPads and iPhones, but there are other techie tips sprinkled in there as well. 

Do you prefer Facebook over Twitter? Then by all means like Learning in Hand on Facebook and you will see Tip Tuesday (and all of my other updates, including free app alerts) in your Facebook feed. 

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Slideshows in Sync

Slideshows in Sync

Teachers! We now have a variety of ways to start a slideshow presentation on our computer, tablet, or phone and have it appear on student devices. And, as you advance to the next slide your students’ devices follow right along.

You can make this happen using one of several different online services. In honor of LiveSlide’s launch, I’m writing about five websites that can push your presentations to your students’ screens.

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