I overlapped with Marquina Iliev-Piselli while at Teachers College, Columbia University and I received an email from her recently in advance of her upcoming publication TOUGH: Women Who Survived Cancer. You can pre-order the book today, and I am grateful to have an advanced copy to read and review.
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Lark Suite is a new all-in-one communication and productivity platform that was built as an internal tool for its parent company (ByteDance) and will likely continue to make inroads at businesses. I set up a trial and the feature I am most interested in checking out is the 'just-in-time' translation for organizations working in different countries.
Here is an excerpt of my TED Masterclass Showcase presentation from ISTE 2019. Right now in order to watch the full video you need to be an ISTE member and access the content on the ISTE website. The videos may be published on YouTube as well in the near future. As part of the assigned reading for an administrative retreat, I got to enjoy Brené Brown's daretolead.brenebrown.comDare to Lead. I flagged many sections of the book as I found that she provides really helpful sets of questions that help guide thinking for any given project - big or small.
I was intrigued by the buckets and skills provided in this article on the World Economic Forum Blog. It was shared by a colleague last week and it continues to seems like a helpful way to organizing thinking around relevant programs in schools.
Steve encouraged me to sign up for this email, and so far I have indeed found it interesting.
I got to learn about and check out a bunch of interesting things while at the ISTE 2019 conference in Philadelphia, PA. One of my favorite products that I might be late to the game on is GooseChase - a platform designed for creating self-paced scavenger hunts. They have EDU pricing available too.
There are probably a lot of tools that do this, I just happened to be introduced to it last week. Form Publisher is a Google Forms add on that lets you take form input data and lay it out on top of a template for easier sharing and communication.
I learned about Boomerang from Steve Barnwell at LearnFestATX. I have not set it up yet but will do so in about month when I add one more GSuite account to my growing list from my many professional and personal entanglements. When set up, it allows you to decide when your emails are actually delivered to you. You can designate specific times for delivery so that your phone or mail client are not always in an 'alway on and alerting mode.' You have to set an understanding that email is not the best mechanism for non-urgent communication (text/Slack/phonecall/walk down the hall are all better for that). Once set though, you can take back some control of when the often overwhelming volume of information comes in. I am excited to use this.
I think I have written about Automator before, and I still think it is a tool that I definitely underutilize and that most people don't frequently take advantage of. I needed to resize a bunch of images quickly and I thought I remembered how to do it in Photoshop but I wanted something that was quicker and easier to re-run. After dragging in 4 commands (it took a bit of trial and error) I got the result I wanted.
When I press Run, I get asked to choose a folder. After that, it copied the photos, opened the copies and resized them all. Now I did have a bunch of photos open on my screen but I just quit Preview and the process was all done. |