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What All Home Educators Need: Remote Digital Backups (guest post)

Using an electronic device such as a laptop, tablet, even a smartphone to help store lesson plans as well as archive other important school-related documents like graded assignments and projects is definitely the more green approach. More importantly, it’s also great for organizational purposes— you can create digital folders with appropriate titles and dates forContinueContinue reading “What All Home Educators Need: Remote Digital Backups (guest post)”

Organize Those e-Books

A while ago, I wrote blog posts on organizing computer files, organizing digital photographs, and organizing website bookmarks. Those posts were so popular that I’ve been asked how to organize e-books and other downloads. For starters, organizing your e-books and other downloads is somewhat like organizing your computer files: set up broad categories for theContinueContinue reading “Organize Those e-Books”

Bookmarks Aren’t Just for Books

A while ago, I wrote blog posts on organizing computer files and organizing digital photographs. Those posts were so popular that I’ve been asked to write an article on how to organize computer bookmarks.Now, here’s my true confession for this post: those are old labels and my bookmarks are a huge mess. Ssshhhh, don’t tellContinueContinue reading “Bookmarks Aren’t Just for Books”

Organize Computer Files

Now that we’ve tackled organizing our digital pictures, let’s organize our computer documents. It may seem like a daunting task, but I promise that it is entirely doable and that it will be worth it in the long run.I love folders! I love paper folders, I love cutesy folders, I love labeled folders, and IContinueContinue reading “Organize Computer Files”

Organize Your Digital Photographs

Digital photography has done wonders. In addition to being able to zip photos of little Johnny’s first steps around the world in seconds and being able to safely store a large number of high-quality pictures in a small amount of space (CDs, etc.), we also have the problem of thousands of uncategorized pictures cluttering ourContinueContinue reading “Organize Your Digital Photographs”

10 Reasons to Go Digital

If you’re reading this post, you have access to a computer and the Internet. If you have access to a computer and the Internet, you have access to a tremendous array of digital calendars and organizers–many of them for free. So, why aren’t you taking advantage of them?Let me help you out here by detailingContinueContinue reading “10 Reasons to Go Digital”

Hey Kids, Learn How to Make Your OWN Web Page!

Do you wish you could afford to enroll your kids in a computer class? Are your kids begging to explore the Internet and build their own Web pages? Do you know what HTML is? Now you don’t have to be a computer expert or shell out big bucks for a class in order for yourContinueContinue reading “Hey Kids, Learn How to Make Your OWN Web Page!”