As I spent time planning for 2010, I also took time to look back over the fifty-one subjects I reviewed in 2009. I chose these five sites as representative of the best of the best. Keep in mind, unlike the …[Continue]
To Do Lists
Free browser-based to-do lists have proliferated like weeds over the last few years. These five sites are my favorites, and include a variety of approaches to goal tracking and productivity management. Whether you are looking for a simple list making …[Continue]
PowerPoint How To
Like chess, PowerPoint is easy to learn, but difficult to master. Today’s tutorials cover both the technical side of creating slides, and the presentation skills needed to give a really good PowerPoint talk….[Continue]
Social Music
In the old days, radio disc jockeys controlled what music was heard over the public airways. Nowadays, everyone’s a music critic, and we rely on friends (virtual and otherwise) to recommend new sounds. This week’s crop of sites use the …[Continue]
How to Create a Wiki
A wiki is a type of collaborative website with integrated tools for adding and editing content. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia.org is one popular example, WikiHow.com is another. But not all wikis give public editorial rights as Wikipedia does. A wiki …[Continue]
Best of 2007
As 2007 drew to an end, I revisited dozens of sites to cull my favorites from the year’s selections and to ponder the state of the educational Internet. Eleven years into my columnist gig, I find it easy to overlook …[Continue]
Typing Tutors
Nothing to download, nothing to pay, today’s picks offer free online touch typing lessons and typing games. Whether you call it keyboarding or typing, are teaching yourself, or looking for supplemental practice outside the classroom, these sites fit the bill….[Continue]
Best of 2006
As 2006 drew to a close, I took some time to review all the sites I recommended this year, and pick five favorites. Although TIME magazine highlighted the importance of user- contributed content in naming “You” Person of the Year, …[Continue]
Best of 2005
It’s the end of the year, which means it’s time for me to peruse my year’s work, and pick my favorite sites of 2005. As broadband connectivity has become more widespread, online multimedia has increased, and all of this year’s …[Continue]
Best of 2004
I’ve been reviewing educational websites for eight years. Over that span of time, finding good topics to write about has gotten much easier, since the entire Web has grown so much. But true quality, in both content and design, is …[Continue]
