Massasoit Sci/Math Professional Development

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.

The world of business is a tough one indeed. Anyone will tell you that. From the guys at the top earning billions per year to the lowly freelancer, tucked away

A quick look at Screenr, a handy new-ish tool for recording screencasts in your browser and sharing them via Twitter--for free! (Bonus: Because I needed something to talk about, the screencast shares a tip for using Gmail a little more effectively.)

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.

The header is likely the first thing a new visitor sees on a blog, so it is the first impression - but why is a blog header so much more important, or at

Just a mid-semester reminder: H1N1 is a pandemic flu--it should be handled a bit differently.

Why Wordpress? These days, many people run their blogs with Wordpress.  Wordpress, simply put, is an easy-to-learn and use blogging platform originally

The speed at which Wordpress development moves, never ceases to amaze me. The quality of themes, the power of the plugins and, of course, the reliability of the

Moving away from a full-blown CMS for your courses and using blogs instead? In this post, you'll find a brief discussion of tools that can be very helpful for managing multiple course blogs without going crazy.

The use of icons in web design is not just to make your page prettier, they can have a higher purpose. The proper usage of icons will have a positive effect on

If you're serious about running a successful business, you have to give some thought to your filing system. Filing may seem a bit secondary to actually running and growing your business, but like many behind-the-scenes business administration tasks, a poor filing system can hurt your productivity and profitability.

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.

When creating themes for clients, you might want to provide them with some administrative branding. The first and easiest way to do that is by replacing the WordPress logo with your Custom Logo in the admin dashboard.

If you spend any amount of time using a wiki-or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways-then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. You'll need to do a little gardening to keep things in order.

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.

Lecturecasting is all the rage these days. And whether you are lecturecasting specifically for a class (either online, face-to-face, or any combination thereof), or are putting your lectures out to the wider public on a platform such as iTunes U, it takes a lot of work to get your lecturecasts to the point where they are effective vehicles for your content.

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.

Google Apps tutorials

The end of the semester is the best time to do one or two little things that will have a big impact down the line, either in the long term or the short term. So, here are a few items on my end-of-the-semester checklist.

You're thinking of using a blog in conjunction with your courses, and you like what you see in the WordPress platform. Do you go with WordPress, or with WordPress MU?