by Dr. Jason Neiffer | May 3, 2016 | Teachers are Awesome!
Happy Teacher Appreciation Day from the Tech-Savvy Teachers and NCCE staff! We love learning with you how you use technology to help students build, create and express! We wanted to share with you a favorite recent TED Talk from Linda Liukas, a Finnish computer...
by Dr. Jason Neiffer | Apr 21, 2016 | Google Drive, Google Slides, Keynote, Office 365, PowerPoint, Tech Tip
Okay… full disclosure: I am a huge font snob! Throughout my time in the history classroom, I not only chose fonts for my presentations and handouts like a sommelier might approach picking a fine wine with dinner, I often researched what typeface might be...
by Dr. Jason Neiffer | Apr 19, 2016 | Announcements
For all of our Spokane-area tech-savvy teacher friends: Sign up NOW for the May 5th Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Teacher Academy at the Libby Center in Spokane, presented by NCCE. The event is free! This Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Teacher Academy is...
by Dr. Jason Neiffer | Apr 8, 2016 | Ask a Tech Savvy Teacher, Chrome, Tech Tip
At NCCE in Seattle in this past February, I received a question during the Google Summit about management of multiple Google accounts. “I now have three Google accounts, including one for school. I am constantly trying to log into to multiple accounts and...
by Dr. Jason Neiffer | Mar 31, 2016 | Chrome, ChromeBooks, Firefox, Tech Tip
For those of you that started your journey as a tech-savvy teacher in the 1990s, you may remember the popularity and necessity of bookmarks in your Internet browser of choice. Before Google, search engines were notoriously unreliable and difficult to use. If you...