How 2 Create a trip itinerary

Most of the services where you buy airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations will send you email confirmations. Some will give you a url for the portion of your itinerary that you arranged through them.

www.tripit.com will put all of these in one handy location for you - you can then access it whenever you like, and you can send links to your friends, family or co-workers.

TripIt will send your itinerary to a smartphone, iPhone or any text-capable phone as well as alerts to keep you on schedule!



The website is free but does require registration.

How 2 create a self-playing webquest

Teachers often create lists of websites they want their students to use for a project - but the challenge becomes: how do you get the students to go to those sites, not wander all over the internet, and not get frustrated by the challenges of typing in a bunch of addresses when the internet is very unforgiving of type-o's?

Enter "Furly", which can be found at www.fur.ly


You can enter any number of addresses - each time you click on the field to enter one, the next empty field appears. When you're done, click GO.

The website will give you a very short url like this one --> http://fur.ly/e63

When a student enters this short url, they will see your first site with a navigation controls bar across the top that allows them to click back and forth among the list of sites in your list.

Go ahead and try the one I created to see what it's like. The address is permanent, at least it is as permanent as anything on the internet is...

It would be a very easy thing to require students to only work in your list of pre-approved sites, and very easy to monitor by looking for the orange navigation bar across the top.

How 2 create a Digital File Cabinet You Can Bring With You Anywhere

My personal favorite cloud storage site is Dropbox. You can use it with or without the installed app and if you CONTACT ME for a recommendation, we'll both get extra storage space (so drop me a line!). One thing I especially like about this site is the "Public" folder - you can store things here and for each one you can generate a link that can be posted elsewhere. I used this for files I post on my not-so-friendly class page at a previous school. It was a royal pain to upload documents, but it was easy to post links. I discovered another advantage in that I could easily revise already-posted documents and as long as the name was the same, the link still worked.


Here's a review of Evernote (which looks really cool even though I never quite got the hang of it) Digital File Cabinet You Can Bring With You Anywhere

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