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Top ten skills needed to succeed as a teacher (and technology)

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This article started out as the top ten skills needed to use technology effectively, but as I wrote the list, I realized that technology shouldn’t be separated out. As we proclaim that technology is a tool, we also shouldn’t single it out when talking about what skills it takes to educate. The [...]

SYSK – Test your SMTP mail server with telnet

photo credit: TalkingTreeWhen troubleshooting email, it may be necessary to see what the email server is spitting out, just to make sure everything is working. The easiest way to do that is to use the telnet command. Telnet allows you to connect to various services on remote or local machines through the command line. [...]

Skills You Should Know (SYSK) – vi

I’m starting a new category, that goes along with my blog post Yes I will lead. The new category is called Skills You Should Know – SYSK. Little bits of information that through my experience aren’t something that you may not necessarily use every day, but may someday save you a [...]