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As teachers, we often expect our students to be reasonably tech-savvy. We're even more likely to have this expectation when (a) we're reasonably tech-savvy ourselves, even though we have no formal training, and (b) we're old enough--or nearly old enough--to be our students' parents. Students should be able to compute circles around us, right? Maybe not.

Since using scheduling & calendaring services Doodle and Jiffle, I've learned about Tungle. Conclusion? It combines the best features of the other two and offers some features they don't, making it the best choice of the three for academics (though it's not without drawbacks). In this post I explain why.

Like it or not, email is the standard communication channel these days. Whether you are an attorney, a student or an online worker, you'll certainly spend a good percentage of your day in front of an email client. If that is the case, learning how to be more productive with email is a must, right? Below you'll find 20 email productivity tips for that purpose.

It's final exam time for most of us in higher education. We are scrambling to give final exams, grade student work, submit grades, and leave for the winter break with just a little bit of sanity and a few working brain cells. Then it hits: the excuses for missing or late work.

Many of us use instant messaging in our professional and personal lives, and we can pair IM with different tools to offer digital office hours.