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This is the place to go in order to learn all the specific touch gestures for your new MAC laptop. Includes step-by-step video guides that are very helpful. Additional info from Apple: "In OS X Mountain Lion, you interact with your Mac using your fingers. Tap, scroll, pinch, and swipe your way through your Mac with Multi-Touch gestures, and control what's on your screen in a more fluid, natural, and intuitive way."

"Mac Basics provides help for new Mac users: how to navigate, using the software, customization, hooking up peripherals and digital devices, troubleshooting and maintenance, and a reference sheet."

A variety of step by step tutorial videos to help you "Find out how to use your Mac, including the Dock, Finder, Mail, and many other features."

"A free Mac application to help you avoid distracting websites."

Offers Mac, Win, iOS, and Android apps that sync to a cloud account.

From Evernote.com

A detailed list of the many Mac OS keyboard shortcuts. Click here to learn a variety of shortcuts that will help you be more productive when using your computer.

"Screen Marker allows you to write and draw directly on your desktop and above all of your opened applications. You can use it to highlight areas you want people to notice before taking a screenshot, draw on your screen in classroom settings or just doodle away during those "important" meetings. "

"Highlight is a tool designed with teachers and demos in mind: it helps you attracting the attention of your audience on what happens on the screen. It is designed to be as unobtrusive and simple as possible, while letting you express your communicating skills efficiently."

Ink2Go is a screen annotation and recording solution that lets you write on top of your active desktop applications in real time. Save your annotations as image files or even record the entire annotation process as a sharable video!

Date: Thursday - April 04, 2013 Time: 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM Location: The Hewitt School Speaker: Jenny Kirsch   The Hewitt School 45 E 75th Street New York, NY 10021 Grades 4-12 With just a few great tools, teachers can easily provide students with a broader, more vivid learning experience. This workshop will begin with an introduction to Google Chrome, featuring specific Chrome Extensions geared to helping teachers become more efficient in their daily tasks. The morning will be devoted to exploring filters for Google and YouTube searches, and learning how to build custom Google search engines. In the afternoon you will hear from teachers and students who are using concrete applications of Google Apps for Education in their classrooms. The end of the day will be reserved for experimentation with your newly acquired knowledge of Google Apps, so be sure to come with a laptop* and a few curriculum ideas you'd like to enhance!

"RescueTime helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus and be more productive."

Ever heard of AutoCAD? Maya? 3ds Max? Autodesk has some of the best 3D software on the market, and they give it to faculty and students for free. 

Easy-to-use Chrome extension for taking a screenshot of a scrolling web page.

From Educreations: "Educreations is a recordable interactive whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that you can share online. Students and colleagues can replay your lessons in any web browser, or from within our app on their iPads. Check out the "Showcase" on our homepage or the "Featured" tab in our iPad app to view some great lessons that other teachers have created with Educreations."

Courtesy of our lovely trainer!

"Creativity and design play a significant role in every part of our lives. Here you will find a new approach to design, sustainability, and creative problem-solving using Autodesk software."

Tons of good ideas about how to use Evernote. 

Our Knowledgebase page, including our training videos.

Many more ideas and use cases.