Good day! We, like most of the world, are distance learning. We also use Chromebooks and Zoom. Early on we had reports from our families that they would continually get the wrong Zoom meeting over and over and over again. After a short and furious investigation we discovered the problem and the fast solution. But […]

Zoom issues on a Chromebook

This is pretty easy and certainly not a new topic but YouTube does change a bit over time so I thought I would put together this hand dandy little guide (with beautiful pics) to help you out. Keep in mind you must be logged into YouTube in order to create your own playlists to share […]

YouTube – How to make a playlist

OK, it’s a weird name but it has a pretty cool function. This is an extension you can add to Chrome and use on a variety of Google products to leave audio comments. If you mark up an essay or digital document, all too often students will just take a look at the score at […]

Mote – Chrome Extension review

I am quite interested in this. I have seen some Chromebooks with touchscreens and even a few of those may have a stylus, but the quality of those Chromebooks may leave a little something to be desired. Then I saw this article in Engadget that says Wacom now has a drawing tablet that works with […]

Chromebook + Wacom tablet? Interesting

Before I get into the meat of this story I just want to say that I am not condoning any action taken by any party. This is not the point of this post. This post is just to talk about how anything that is posted online is not private, does not truly delete itself and […]

Social Media – Cautionary tales

Do you ever have those apps that you like using. That you genuinely enjoy firing up and doing some work in it? Well CloudApp is one of those apps for me. I’ve been using for nearly a decade now and it just gets better and better. What does it do? In short, it performs four […]

CloudApp – A review

Just to be clear. I am not talking about Zoom, the video conference tool. I am talking about Zoom, the audio/visual recording hardware company. For long time readers of IT Babble, you may know that I have a sweet spot for Zoom. I own a Zoom H6 for about 8 years and absolutely love it. […]

Newish Zoom Recorders

I was reading Techcrunch and saw that Kahoot! had purchased a small company called Whiteboard.fi. The fi stands for Finland in case you were wondering. So, I loaded up the website, tried it out and within five minutes knew this was a very good product. Read on below to get the whole skinny. Pricing There […]

Whiteboard.fi – A review

I’m a little bummed. The last few years my school has had spring break over April Fools’ Day (April 1). I’m not a huge prankster at all, but it can be kind of fun to have a little harmless fun with the staff and students on this day. Sure, it’ll be a distraction so give […]

Fun April Fools’ Day

HOT TAKE ALERT!!!!!! The iPad Pro is not a good deal and schools should stay away from it! I guess that’s not really a hot take but more of an obvious opinion. Let me explain where this is coming from. My school assigns MacBooks to our staff. We like the build quality, the ease to […]

iPad Pro vs MacBook Air M1