Digital Organization

(Facilitator: Michelle Morley)

Use this time to get organized!

Google APPS

• Create an iGoogle page and set as your homepage
• Add Google Reader to keep all the blogs you read in one place
• Manage your Google Doc Files
• Create  Google Site  as a Personal Information Dashboard
• 100+  Google Tricks  Save you Time  ie. sync your Google calendar to smart phone

Create Your own Space to Share

• Blogger 
• Posterous - Blogging made easy (create blog post through email or moblile device)
• Wikispaces 
• GSSD Word Press Site – ask me a Digital Learning Coach for more details
• LiveBinders – organize & share your online resources
• Symbaloo – Save and share bookmarks

Learning Management Systems

• Haiku – All in 1 Management Tool
• Edmodo – Secure learning Network for teachers and Students

Social Bookmarking

• Diigo – save and share your bookmarks online

Share Docs, images, videos and More

• Dropbox – Share folders with specific people or use drop to have anytime/anywhere access to the files you need
• Dropitotme – securely receive files into your Dropbox file
• Flickr - photo sharing

Schedule Meetings With Ease ….

• Doodle – schedule an event or meeting with ease. Don’t send emails back and forth to find a meeting date – Use Doodle
• Schedule Times People can meet with you – Schedule Once
• http://meetme.so/michellemorley – see when I’m available to meet
• Meeting Dates/Time – these are the times I can meet
• Meeting Planner -  Across Time Zones

Save Music in a Pinch ….

• KeepVid – download Youtube Videos and save as mp3

Save Meeting Notes

• Google Notes
• Evernote – Remembers everything
• Lotus Notes (Notes)

 

Other Useful Tools Save Time …

• ifttt - put the internet to work for you. Link your Blogs posts to your Twitter Feeds
• Bounce – quick and easy way to share ideas from the web
• Create a Digital Signature on your Email – ask Digital Learning Coach for Details