Be aware: Sometimes, posts are delayed. We apologize for that! For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with students, parents, meetings, grades, reports, reviews, and thinking. There are few breaks to update/fix/maintain the tech tools that allow us to pursue our trade. That includes our online presence. But, if they
aren't updated, we are left wondering why our blog doesn't attract visitors, why our social media Tweeple don't generate activity, and why we aren't being contacted for networking. Here's a short list of items that won't take long to accomplish. The ones you read last year, consider a reminder! Click for details |
- Sort through Documents and get rid of those you don’t need anymore. Every time you search, the computer must finger through those unused and worthless files. Plus, it distracts you from finding the documents you really want. If you don’t want to toss them, make an ‘Old’ file and put them all in
there.
- Empty the trash. Don’t even look in it. If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out.
- Learn to use that program you’ve been promising you would or delete it. Also: Delete the ones you no longer use–or never used (like the ones pre-installed on a new computer).
- Clean the junk off your (virtual) desktop. Put it in folders or create one for ‘Working on’.
Click for more Two maintenance tasks lots of people skip are: - back up your documents
- image your computer
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more Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. December 14-18thClick for details Questions? Go ahead and ask! I love tech ed questions. You can either reply to this newsletter, contact me via email, or find me on X/Twitter (@askatechteacher). |
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