Website of the Week: Let Me Google That For You

LMGTFY – Empowering others with essential Internet skills The About page on the website says it all: “This is for all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves.” To start, type in the search term(s) that a student or colleague has asked you [...]

Website of the Week: LogoType Maker (Gr. 6-12)

LogoType Maker – Create & customize your own logo images LogoType Maker is a free, Flash-based web tool with an impressive archive of fonts, graphics, and templates for making logos and rich titles. Simply type in the text for your logo, then click the Generate LOGO button. If you don’t see one you like, click [...]

MLTI Minute: Text Substitution

MLTI Minute Podcast Episode 163: Text Substitution This podcast will show you how you can program your own text substitution and apply it globally to most Apps. installed on your Apple computer. The example in the podcast shows how to program the Mac to convert “LOL” automatically to, “That was quite a humorous statement. This [...]

Google Apps Tip – Right Side Chat Lab

Have you ever driven a car where the manufacturer put everything (headlights, wiper blade speed, cruise control, etc.) on one control arm attached to the steering column? Talk about not having enough elbow room. I was experiencing the same thing with all of these gadgets running in the left-hand column of the Gmail interface; I [...]

Website of the Week: Find That File (Gr. 6-12)

Find That File – Search for content by file type (Gr. 6-12) Find That File is an Internet search engine designed to help users find content by media file type. For example, let’s say you would like to find an audio recording of MLK Jr. “I Have A Dream” speech. Simply enter your search criteria [...]

Website of the Week: Is It Just Me?

Down For Everyone Or Just Me – Check if a website is up or down Have you ever found yourself trying to get to a website, not being successful, and wondering why? Have you asked yourself: Did I type in the address correctly? Is my browser not working? Is my network down? Is the website [...]

Google Apps Tip – Speech2Text w/Chrome

Google Translate Working with a student where there is a language barrier can be a very frustrating experience. Both parties are smart, knowledge, and communicative…but they just don’t understand one another. Enter Google Translate, which provides the simple tool of converting text from one language into that of another (there are currently 63 to choose [...]