Are screenshots dominating your desktop? Here’s a quick and easy way to sort them all out, and to trick your computer into putting them in one folder every single time (yes, I know). Here is what you need to copy/paste to terminal: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/screenshots killall SystemUIServer mv ~/Desktop/Screen\ Shot* ~/Desktop/screenshots Ready to…
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Flip Your Flop: A Public Speaking Crash Course
Join us for the next #UWCLearn workshop: Flip Your Flop. Thanks to Gemma for kicking off the concept here: (Learn more about Gemma’s inspiration by watching this TED talk) Level Up Your Public Speaking Game No one loves addressing a crowd. Running workshops, addressing a large cohort of parents, peers, or students isn’t easy. Flip…
Making your command terms accessible
How can I make my command terms a little more engaging and accessible? I’ve long loved Haiku Deck as an application to create stunning visual slideshows quickly. Recently this application went from freeware to pay, so some people may want another alternative. An easy way to make ‘Haiku Deck-like’ slides is with two Google Slides…
What does a #UWCLearn Book Club do?
Over the summer, colleagues across the college read several books–but a cohort looked at two texts specifically for our group: A Guide To Documenting Learning and The Digital Scholar. Thursday we met to think about a few key headlines and to grapple with a few core questions, check the provocations out below (or download them…
Three minutes for three new productivity tips
List of resources mentioned in the tutorial: Flaticons for GDocs Google Keep Extensis Font Add-On
Teams that Research together, Learn together
Does your team/dept share resources, explore research or flag up must-see videos for one another? Do you lose track of all the links? Do you wish you could share your reading with members of the faculty outside of this team or teammates across schools? Help me help you! What if you had a little help…
Professional reading like a boss
Never before in the life of a teacher has there been better access to content to consume for our practice. But where do you keep those videos, articles, and images you want to come back to? If you’ve ever thought ‘ah! I wanted to read that…where did the link go?” this post is for you….