TechTipTuesday

TTT19--Parting Tips!

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Wed, 10 May 2006 10:15:00 -0700

Howdy, ya'll,

Over the past 20 weeks or so it's been my pleasure to provide weekly tech tips to ya via this podcast. Today's show is the last one I'll put up, at least until next school year, possibly forever.

As you may know, I produce another weekly podcast, Snacks4theBrain!, for the Vanderbilt University Center for Science Outreach. Over the summer (my germ of a) plan is to transform that weekly brief (~20 min.) podcast into a bi-weekly longer one (~40 min. to one hour) in a new format that will allow me to play complete podsafe songs of many genres, include a tips feature, and continue to interview cutting edge research scientists about the way they're connecting to K12 students worldwide. I will also be doing occasional "soundseeing tours" of the Nashville, Tennessee area for you poor folks who can't get here in the flesh. If you don't already subscribe to S4theB! I heartily encourage you to do so.

What I'd like to do here, by way of a sayanora, is to share links of sites that I've found to be veritable founts of tippery. Check these out as a way to continue learning and growing your tech skills:

Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers:
I just like to TTTT thing she's got going on. Just kidding: Actually, Tammy--an Instructional Technology Specialist at ESSDACK, an educational service center in Kansas--has assembled a good working set of skills tips specifically for teachers.

Computer Geeks Tech-Tips:
Anybody who will call themselves a geek and smile about it earns a friendship entry in my book. These folks have done a cool job of compiling and archiving a great set of tips categorized under the headings Computer, Computer Parts, Consumer Electronics, Networking, and Other.

Technology Tips of the Month from Oregon State University:
Deborah Healey from the English Language Institute at the above-named institution of higher education has obviously done something like our WiredWednesday project, only on steroids. Here are her categories: Software, Email, Websearching, About the Web, Group discussion/projects, Content-based instruction, Skill areas, and Other.

Micro2000 TechTips:
Oh, those Brits. They have a tip for everything, or nearly, for a total of 91 as of this writing. This site is for the big kids, ya'll, with tech tips from simple Internet tricks to advanced data recovery for uber-geeks. You can download all of the tips in a big zipped file, too. Tasty!

TechTips 101 from Bob Bicknell
Tech Tips 101 and Web Picks are written, produced and voiced by Bob Bicknell. Bob reports on technology for KYW Newsradio 1060. His Tech Tips and Web Picks reports are syndicated nationally to more than 300 radio stations. For those of you who need an audio source for tips, visit the radio station link to hear individual shows. It doesn't seem to show up in iTunes. And also visit iTunes and browse the results from a podcast directory search for "tech tip." I like the One Minute Tip podcast, though it's not nearly as fun as TechTipTuesday has been!

Cheers to all!

Check out the final podcast here.

Photo is all my wonderful colleagues at University School of Nashville Lower School. I've been told it looks alot like something that should be called "Scott and his Posse!" Just an accident of placement and costume, but I sorta agree. One could wish for no better company...

TTT 18 -- Word Tabs

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Tue, 2 May 2006 15:00:00 -0700

Hey, ya'll,

This week we're laying out the text of our Wired Wednesday card on Tabs in Microsoft Word (image at right, Tab Hunter, heeheehee, courtesy of the Meeker Museum online) . The card and its resulting podcast audio barely scratch the surface of this powerful formatting tool, and because of that I'm adding some links here to additional resources. The folks at VTC (Virtual Training Company) have been creating and delivering tutorials on a wealth of computer related programs for a decade. Many of their tutorials are free, and the quality of the free ones leads me to believe that if one is interested in a tutorial that requires purchase, it would be money well spent. Check these tutorials out at their website. The tutorial about the formatting toolbar is particularly appropriate this episode. Suffolk University's Paul T. Birtwell has some great tutorials of his own, including this one on tabs. Or how about Penn State's tabs tutorial! Heck, you don't need me: Just google "word tabs tutorial" or some other variant of the query.

Download TTT18 here, or browse all TTT's by clicking on "Feeds" in the sidebar. Music courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network, a really nice piece from indie label BBE Records group Osunlade, called "Caseblanca of the Soul."

Cheers, all!

TTT 17 -- Word Autoformat

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:26:00 -0700

TTT17 moves into the domain of Microsoft, detailing steps to help tame the Microsoft Word "Autoformat" functions. These can be extraordinarily helpful, especially if you typically misspell certain words (I personally can't seem to type New Yourk--SEE! "New York," that is, without adding a u in it, as if my fingers really want me to be typing "your" when my mind thinks "york." The other thing I do (infrequently but enough to bug me) is type the first two letters of a capitalized word in capitals, as in STeve or NEw YOurk. Well, I can set my Word autocorrect features to deal with those sorts of things. In the computer lab I want the thing off completely, and at the first of the school year (and periodically thereafter, since individual users may override my changes) I check and reset "Check Grammar as you type" and "Check Spelling as you type" to my preferred unchecked setting.

Listen up, enjoy, and for this one you really want to listen several times or at least be sure to "ride that pause button" as you may.

Music today by Podsafe Music Network's Mike Norton, from a compilation called "Music from Mano," an instru-bash called "From the Disk."

Cheerio,
Scott

Takin' a Break This Week

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:22:00 -0700

Hey, ya'll,

Taking a break for personal reasons this week, but there's a great "Revisit Show," featuring snipsnipped clips from past episodes of that educational podcast, over at Snacks4theBrain! that I'd love you to go check out. While you're there, click on the "Feeds" link in the sidebar to browse all the past shows.

I'll also use this post to send you, especially if you're a teacher, over to edtechtalk.com to explore all the amazing resources they have to offer. I learn something every single week by listening to their podcast, which is actually the audio from a live interactive meeting of educators!

We'll be back next week with another TechTipTuesday!

Cheers,
Scott

TTT 16--Spam!

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:32:00 -0700

Spam, that marvelous concoction of (what kind of meat?). In our modern world, "Spam" has come to mean "email I didn't ask for, don't want, and dispise having to manage" *my definition.

Listen to TTT 16 here, and please forgive my li'l rant. Everybody needs one of those every once in a while, and I really really mean it. In the show I mention a new service called "BlueFrog" that I'm currently testing out. I think I like it. Stay tuned.

Music for this week's podcast courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network, a moody electronic goodie entitled "Slow Magenta" by a young Canadian who calls himself "ghoti" . Thanks, ghoti! Pic courtesy of Dan Garcia's Spam Page, a websited dedicated to the "other spam!"

TTT 15--Spyware Detection and Removal!

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Sun, 2 Apr 2006 14:00:00 -0700

Last week we talked a bit about spyware, which we tech department members classify along with adware and malware under the broad heading "scumware." This week I'm sharing one free tool that I've found useful. While not the be-all and end-all (wouldn't that be nice!), Spybot Search and Destroy is a fantastic free option for the beginning PC housecleaner. Download and listen to TechTipTuesday episode 15 here.

There are a number of other useful tools which the TTT does not mention, and on purpose. Hijack This!, AdAware, and the online Housecall are all tools that all do good jobs thoroughly but whose effective use might benefit from the touch of a more advanced user than this podcast targets. If you're brave and confident, though, they're well worth a look!

Music this week again hails from the wonderful Podsafe Music Network and is provided by a band called "This Spy Surfs," a tune called Spy Beach! In addition to their PMN weblink, the band has its own website, where they share this and several other fun songs.

Have a great, safe-surfing, springtime week!!!

TTT 14-- Spyware!!!

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:30:00 -0800

This week's TTT offering aims to share some information that I actually want to share with you, as opposed to the information you may be unwittingly sharing with unscrupulous operators of spyware programs who have tricked or otherwise convinced you to install their automatic reporting software on your machine. This one's closely related to TTT 13, when we looked at Internet Pop-up Messages, because those messages often provide the way a lot of this stuff can propogate.

Be sure to see the original Wired Wednesday card in the sidebar if you're a paper-collecting sort of a fellow or lass, and I'm adding one link that might help you understand this whole topic better. Knowledge is power, don'tcha know: Wikipedia's comprehensive Spyware entry.

Download TechTipTuesday episode 14 here!

Music courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network, a tidy little song called "Walkin' the Beat" by a one-man group appropriately named "Electric Spy!"

TTT 13 -- Internet Pop-up Messages

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:22:00 -0800

Greetings from the Sundog Bookstore coffeehouse in Seaside, Floriday. We're down here for Spring Break but I'm not forgetting what day of the week it is! In fact, I'm posting this on Monday! Okay, well, if you're a purist you don't have to listen until Tuesday!

If you've done any web-surfing at all you've encountered them, nagging very official-looking messages designed to make you click and hit a website which means to sell you something you don't want, don't need, and certainly won't be better off downloading onto your computer. Two words: "Ignore" and "them."

This week's TTT has some words of wisdom to help you identify and ignore those pop-up or embedded-on-the-page ads whose only real purpose in life is most likely to generate one more click an unscrupulous for which a web host can charge an advertiser. So what if it's only a tenth of a penny: enough of those, pardner, and you've got a buck...

I'm not sure how I pulled it off in one minute and 13 seconds, but this week's show features somewhere around 55 guest stars. Ms. Pitt's, Ms. Ackerman-Scott's, Mr. Amore's, and Ms. Noel's students help me out with TechTipTuesday shoutouts and my son Colin lends his voice-over talents when it comes time to demonstrate the pop-up examples. Life is grand! Listen to it here.

Music, as usual, is provided by the fine folks at the Podsafe Music Network, Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, mvt. 3 by Joseph Haydn, performed by Mario Ajero. Thanks to Joseph, to Mario, to Colin, and thanks again to my great kids at USN for their help!

Cheers!

TTT 12 -- Listservs!

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:05:00 -0800

It's an old concept, really--or at least relatively old as these things go. You sign up to receive periodic email messages from a group of like-minded collaborators. You can set your message preferences so that you receive every message any member sends to the "listserv," or one message a day, or one a week (called "digesting" one's messages). On all but the sleepiest of lists, I prefer the digest, else my email inbox becomes even more choked and unmanageable than it usually is. It's not blogging or wiki'ing or podcasting or any such trendy tech; it simply gets the job done. Want to discover a 3rd grade classroom somewhere that'll videoconference with yours? Pop out a post to ed1vidconf, the busy listserv for educators interested in IVC (interactive videoconferencing). Want to know what's new in cooking and food science? Join a listserv dedicated to that discussion. Gardening? Mandolin? Fishing? There's a listserv for every one of these and pretty much any interest you can name. Image courtesy of http://stuact.tamu.edu/.

TTT12 gives you, especially if you're an educator, some excellent starting tips on how to begin taking advantage of this sturdy technology. Get started today: You're missing the discussion!!!

Download TTT12 here. Be sure to grab the printable .pdf file in the bar to the right, should you be a hard-copy sort of earthling.

Music for today's podcast once again courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network, a little untitled dance ditty from a guy who calls his "one-man-band" Roll On Red. Must be from Alabama, methinks!!! Cheers, and roll on listserv!!!!!

Links mentioned in today's podcast:

Topica--http://lists.topica.com
Yahoo!Groups--http://groups.yahoo.com
E-Mail Discussion Lists and Electronic Journals--http://www.ibiblio.org/edweb/lists.html
LISTSERV list by Subject--http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/listservs/subjectsearch.html

TTT 11 -- Get the Picture?

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Mon, 6 Mar 2006 04:25:00 -0800

Our world is flooded with 'em: images, pictures, graphics, all those things you can look at and that you can use to support what you have to say--for others to look at. You have found the perfect example for your students or your audience, whatever it might be. How do you use it?

TTT episode 11 is all about getting the picture: Go to the Internet, find the picture, get the picture. It's as easy as all that. An important term in this episode is "right-click," that term denoting the use of the middle "tall man" finger on the mouse button you don't use very much. That button is designed to give you what's termed a "context menu," one that will differ depending on where your mouse cursor is located when you click it. Think of it as a "WhatCanIDoHere?" button. Yeah.

Copyright issues are as connected to this topic as cake is to ice cream, ya'll. It's not okay to use someone else's hard work for your own profit. If you're using it for an educational project with limited distribution and not for commercial purposes, you're sliding inexorably into that gray area known as "fair use" and you'd best be aware that you may be held accountable should your gray area turn profit-black. When in doubt always give credit, prominently and accurately.

Listen up to TTT episode 11!

Music today is from the Podsafe Music Network, a loverly little techno-ditty from "Xenotoxin" called "Scanning all Frequencies." Enjoy.

TTT10-- Google News Alerts

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:08:00 -0800

Ever since I stumbled upon Google News Alerts, I've been having fun checking up on Scott Merrick, the 19 year-old New Hampshire congressman and Scott Merrick, Inc., the Australian employment firm, not to mention the occasional random news item that actually has something to do with me, Scott Merrick (earliest existing picture of same exhibited at right).

That's because I visited www.google.com/newsalerts and signed up to be alerted by email whenever there's a Web news article containing the search terms "Scott" and "Merrick." I did so by enclosing both terms in quotation marks, or else I'd get an email whenever the word "Scott" appeared or the word "Merrick." I also keep an eye on a particularly long-running local murder case, on "educational podcasting," and on "videoconferencing." When the emails announcing news (or News and Web) appearances of these terms appear in my inbox, I either ignore them or click on them and read--my choice, not the local or national news media's. As Martha Stewart might say, "It's a good thing."

Listen to TTT number 10, download the printable .pdf file, and set yourself up to keep up (at your own pace and at your own discretion) with items, professional and/or personal, of your interest.

Music for today's podcast has been provided by the Podsafe Music Network. I've butchered up a really kickin' song called "And the Good News Is" for my own nefarious porpoises. Especially if you're interested in country music, you really owe it to yourself to click on the link for "Nashville Star survivor" Sean Patrick McGraw and discover more about him. Thanks for listening, and please take a minute to share the site with a friend! Just copy the link from your address bar and send it to 'em. The more the merrier!!!

TTT9--Burn Baby Burn!

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:41:00 -0800

Hey, ya'll.

I'm jumpin' around here amongst the original "Wired Wednesday" cards that have inspired this podcast. Why? Because I can! We're back into the "General" category, and this episode of TTT is all about burning desire, or at least about the desire to burn.

CDs, compact disks-- can the youngstest amongst us imagine a world without them? I doubt it. Heck, I clearly recall cruisin' around in my '72 Buick station wagon's 8-track stereo and feeling like a tech wizard because I had figured out that in order to play a cassette tape (remember those?) I needed an adapter device I could jam into the deep 8-track chamber to fool it into thinking the cassette it was playing was actually a tape it was meant to process.

Anyway, as I move through my professional and personal worlds in the disguise of someone who actually knows something about technology, I've seen a lot of confusion about how to record information on these things. It would seem that one ought to be able to just drag and drop files into the thing, but it's actually a bit more complicated. Good news, though: Like a lot in your life, the more you do it the easier it gets to do. Thanks be.

Listen up to TTT9 here. May the Source be with you (whatever that means!).

Music for TTT9 is from Bob Hughes's "Back Burner," courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network. Thanks, Bob!

Don't forget to download the printable .pdf file from the list in the sidebar, and while you're at it, share TTT with your friends! And check out the list of other fun Podcasts in the sidebar, too.
Contrary to appearances, it's not all about tech, folks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TTT8 -- Cookies!

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:16:00 -0800

Yum yum yum yum yum--cookies! Everybody likes them. I particularly like chocolate chip ones, especially if the chips are semi-sweet or dark. Yummy. Particularly good on Valentine's day, like, for instance, today!

Okay, we're not talking about that kind of cookie this week. We're talkin' about the kind that your Web browser stores in a special folder on your computer's hard drive, a little text file that contains information about you and that can convey information the next time you log into a website. Like so many other features of our lives, this can be good, bad, or somewhere in between. Check out this expedient.com site resource for very detailed definitions and directions for dealing with cookies on a pletora of browsers besides Internet Explorer. Meanwhile, prepare to ride that player pause button whilst listening to this week's TechTipTuesday, downloadable here.

You might wonder why this TTT is spoken in an uncustomarily soothing and quite tone of voice. It's because I recorded it in the lobby of the school hotel at Interlochen Center for the Arts early in the a.m. this past Saturday morning. I am here (was there) to accompany my talented daughter for an audition to attend the Academy next year. She did just fabulously, and we have both enjoyed the winter snow and the intensely focused arts atmosphere. I'll be back in Nashville for next week's show, but if you reallyreally liked the tone of today's TTT, why not leave a comment to let me know? I'm always up for input, so I an improve output and facilitate throughput.

Music today is again from the Podsafe Music Network and was created by Jaime Beauchamp, a song called "Memorial Day." I just love hearing new music, ya'll. Hope you do, too!

Cheerio!

TTT7 -- Cache

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:35:00 -0800

It's all about the cache, ya'll. Not the "cash," though that'd be nice to have. It's about the way your browser works to save you time and bandwidth by displaying recently accessed webpages from your computer, not going back out again and downloading them again. This TTT will help you tweak your settings (or at least show you where to tweak them) and make your websurfing experience just that little bit better.

BTW, I did once have a cache torn down by a brown bear in Alaska, pulled out of a tree 15 feet high and ripped open. It looked like the big cans of bulk dried veggies had been used for target practice--but I knew that was only its teeth that made the holes.

I moved my camp the next morning.

Download TTT7 here. Don't forget to download the printable .pdf file from the sidebar at the right, and don't forget to smile!!!

Music today from the Podsafe Music Network. Image from the PennyPostcards website.

Cheerio,
Scott

TTT6 -- FROZEN?

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:53:00 -0800

Everybody's faced it--the blue screen of death or the mouse that just won't mouse anymore, and along with it the keypad that just won't keypad. In my many days as Tech Coordinator I've heard maybe a hundred people tell me that their computer just wouldn't turn off. Invariably, I go to their classroom or to their computer, then turn the durned thang off using the tip included in today's TTT. Listen up: Download it here!

AND: Here's another tip not included in the 'cast: I subscribe to several newslists, and one in particular reaps me a weekly (or so) email that contains links to some wonderful tips for advanced users. Since this podcast really is for basic users, those in search of more advanced guidance might be encouraged to move on over and check out Jake Luddington's MediaBlab.

Music today is a song of mine I call "Colin's Walk," composed incrementally during countless walks with the wee babe on my back in a backpack, me with guitar, he all a-babble. I plan to compile a CD with this and other songs, to be entitled "Still Waiting." Appropriate, one thinks, since it's been a work in progress for, oh, around 3 years...

TTT5 -- Organization!

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:44:00 -0800

Numero Cinco, Ya'll!

This TTT is all about organization, that seemingly unobtainable quality we all so desperately strive for. If we could JUST get organized...Listen up here!

Music for this 'cast, from the Podsafe Music Network, is Brain Buckit's "Rocket Science," and I highly suggest you all give the whole song a serious listen. I'm going to be buying a BB recording soon, myself: Their rich rocking mix of slide guitar and pounding rhythms speaks to my sense of ORGANIZATION.

Picture from the free downloads page at Picaboo.com! Click on the image to make it larger, click on the enlarge icon on the lower right corner if necessary, and just sit back and think about organization!

TTL4--Extensions

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:19:00 -0800

Extensions, ya'll. Those little single dots followed by three (usually) letters that mean something. But what, one wonders. This definition at whatis.com might help. If you don't want/need to get that technical, just give a listen to the very brief rundown about file extensions that comprises this week's TechTipTuesday! Download the file here or click on the "Feed" button on the right to browse all the TTTs you would like to hear; and don't forget to view and/or print this week's .pdf card (hey, that's an extension!), also listed in the sidebar to the right.

Music for this week's li'l show was created by David Keifer at Cagey House Music. His work is also to be found at the Podsafe Music Network. Thanks again, David!

Quick flash: After recording, I discovered a great website that you can visit to learn anything and everything about file extensions. It's fileext.com. Check that out!

And to display all file extensions on your computer, open your "My Documents" folder (or any folder), click "Tools," "Folder Options," then "File Types." You'll be amazed!

Cheers, and don't let yourself get overextended!

TTT3 -- Basic File Management!

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:16:00 -0800

I'm not a particularly organized person. That said, I've become fairly good at knowing where I have stored something on my computer and being able to find it. There are times, though, when I need to find something I've "lost," and the tip in this episode of TTT precisely describes what it is I do in that event. There are all kinds of rumors that the current "file folder" organizational structure for PCs is under serious revision and may even be doomed for replacement by something determined to be more efficient or more intuitive, or both. Meanwhile, it's the old file cabinet metaphor for us all (image at right from roadsideamerica.com). Download TTT3 here. Enjoy and share! And don't forget to print or save for future reference the "Wired Wednesday" .pdf card, linked in the sidebar to the right.

The background music for this week's TechTipTuesday is some great music by Jim Fidler, a song called Merrigan's Reel, and was provided via the Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com!

TTT2 -- Defrag!

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:23:00 -0800

"Defragulation" is not a word (I just like the way it sounds). However, putting into action the somewhat abstract concept of scanning one's hard drive regularly for scattered files and parts of files and scooping them all together to live in harmony with their little data friends can help speed up your computer's operations significantly. Do it. At least once a month.

This show is available for listening here. Or, contrariwise, subscribe to the feed by clicking on the feed link in the sidebar to the right.

Music for TTT2 was again created by moi on my wee Casio keyboard. Look for some really great new independent music from Podshow Podsafe Music Network in next week's show!

TTT1--Disk Maintenance

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 04:37:00 -0800

Yippeeeee! The first episode of TTT can be downloaded here. Also, there'll always be a revised tip card link in the shownotes for your download/printing convenience. I'm going to toy with the posting format over the next few shows so that it can be optimized for ease of access, but for now, here's the first one in the text body of this posting:

Regular Computer Maintenance
If you want your computer to run faster and more reliably, there are a few simple steps you can take to keep everything running smoothly.

1. Update virus protection. Set your computer to update protection when you logon to it in the morning. Select Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Security Center to do so. Shut your computer down when you leave and restart it when you arrive daily.
2. Backup. Backup your files weekly to another storage device, daily if you're working with very sensitive or irreplaceable data.
3. Get rid of Spyware. Run Spybot Search & Destroy and Immunize your computer from future downloads. Do this weekly.
4. Scan Your Disks. Double-click My computer on the Desktop, select C: drive, File, Properties, Tools, Check Now, Select Automatically Correct…, Start. This is a monthly task.
5. Defragment your drives. Select Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter, select a drive, and click Start. Do this monthly.
6. Cleanup Unneeded Files. Choose Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Cleanup, choose a drive, select OK, and you'll see a list of various files that you can delete. Check the file types you want to remove (Temporary Internet Files, Temporary Files, Download Program Files) and click OK. Do this monthly.

Complete each task at the suggested intervals unless your computer is behaving badly. If your computer is running slowly or freezing, run through the whole list of tasks.

Music for this episode was created on the fly by moi on my little Casio keyboard. I have recently registered as both podcaster and musician at Podshow Music and I promise some great independent music, both as backgrounds and whole songs for your listening pleasure in future shows!!!

The following is just to post to my Odeo Channel.

Episode 1

My Odeo Channel (odeo/f1d460e56e820821)

TechTipTuesday Podcast Launches!

smerrick@usn.org (Scott Merrick) — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:15:00 -0800

Welcome and Happy Holidays. TTT will be posting weekly on Tuesdays once the routine is, well, routine. We're still noodling with format and concept, but the basic idea is to make use of the "Wired Wednesday" tech tips created by Page McMullen, Omari Lewis, Penny Phillips, Kathy Wierczerza, David Maclean, and Scott Merrick (moi) at University School of Nashville back in the academic years 2003-5 and originally published as hard-copy printed cards with a single corner perforation that allowed them to be added weekly to a little ring that in turn could be hung on a hook stuck onto the side of a teacher's computer monitor. I dare say some of these things are hanging there as I type.

Now, with the miracle of podcasting (a bit pretentious, I understand, but I'm just making a point here) we can get these out to the world--THE WORLD, I SAY--and perhaps help more folks keep their tools sharpened and their wheels greased. Enjoy TTT by subscribing to the podcast feed (soon, when it becomes available) and listening, then check out this page for the shownotes that will contain links to relevant resources.

Cheers!