Great free gradebook Excel template for teachers
Are you a teacher? Do you use Excel spreadsheets? Do you use an Excel template? Do you use an online or digital gradebook template? Like most teachers around Japan, I’m marking exam papers and calculating my final grades. In the past, I used MyGradebook.com, which was quite good, but is now defunct. I’ve tried other [...]
How To Choose A Scanner – YouTube
Brooks Duncan of DocumentSnap.com has a short video on the key factors to consider when choosing a scanner. Brooks Duncan is author of the Paperless Document Organization Guide, a series of detailed, multimedia guides on going paperless. Check it out (buy it from here and I get a commission). If you’re interested in going paperless [...]
The “Where the Hell is My Wallet” Hack | Bridging the Nerd Gap
I’ve been using Evernote more than, ahem, ever recently: first, I discovered how it can help me go paperless (thanks to Brooks Duncan’s excellent advice on DocumentSnap – if you’re serious about paperless, do consider getting his Paperless Document Organization Guide); next, I came across Daniel Gold’s “Unofficial Guide to capturing everything & GTD” which [...]
Using a Kindle in Japan
I’ve finally figured out how to purchase and download Kindle editions of books onto my Kindle. It’s not straight forward because I don’t have an Amazon.com account and I live in Japan. Here’s how to do it: Create an Amazon.com account (I have an Amazon UK account and was able to register with that; Amazon [...]
Great example of a simple, professional, free “howto” video that will attract customers
Surfing YouTube for videos that would teach me how to create an eBook, I came across this one, and was impressed. It’s a very good example of a good, helpful, video that attracts customers. It’s simple, yet professional. Using free technology anyone could make a video like this. Just because I found her video useful [...]
How academics waste time, and how the Internet can help
A student just came to my office and asked about the history of the word “gentleman” – did I have a good definition? I assumed that he had looked up the word in a number of dictionaries (I checked, he said he had). I recalled reading something about the history of the word recently. It [...]
Thank God (and capitalism) for the Internet
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Have had an iPod nano for about a year but only recently started playing with the built-in video camera. When I plugged in my iPod to my PC, I couldn’t see the videos I’d taken with the camera. After fiddling about for 15 minutes or so with iTunes’ useless [...]
How to eat sushi
For those who don’t know. I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly’s “Evernote Essentials 3.0″, Dan Gold’s $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions’ Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to try DocumentSnap’s free email course on going paperless first before buying his products. Sign up for it on [...]
Re-learning to write: my 30-day challenge
I’m 53. I need to learn how to write. Are you a teacher? Have you spent so much time reading and writing academic articles and essays that you now find it difficult to change your writing style? Do you keep a “Dear Diary”-type journal? Do you want to develop a side-business, but are stumped by [...]
