Technology I use

I saw a student using Microsoft Explorer today in class and that inspired this post.  I am not going to tell you what technological products to use, but I do have some personal favorites.

• Chrome - I use this as my go-to browser.  One feature I like is that I can have it save my bookmarks and other items and share them on multiple computers.
• Dropbox - This backs up all the important data on my computer and synchronizes the files between computers.  Plus, I can access all files from any computer using a browser.  One too many hard-disk crashes and I keep everything backed up.  Plus, if you accidentally delete or write over your paper, you can retrieve an older version.
• Feedly - This is what I use to keep track of everyone's blog posts.  I can bring up one page and see all new posts, or look at all posts by a particular blogger if I wish.
• npr.org - I can't be listening to the radio all the time.  My students would be discouraged if I did that during class.  However, I have found this to be my source for the least-biased American news source.  If you want a more worldly source for news, you will need to look at non-English news sources.

If you are still using whatever came pre-loaded on your laptop, check out some of these alternatives.