The Deposit - Updated 10/07/2025

Welcome to The Deposit. You want Squatters? We got 'em! You want tools? They're here too! You want asparagus? What do we look like, Hello Fresh? Get out of here with your asparagus... unless you use asparagus as a code word that means bacon. We'll enjoy that bacon.

Enjoy!

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Squatters - The Squatter is my High Class Potty PD. No low-rent toilet humor here.

The Squatter 1 - Keyboard Shortcuts

The Squatter 2 - Google Tools

The Squatter 3 - Jamboard

The Squatter 4 - Extensions

The Squatter 5 - App Smashing
The Squatter 6 - Quickies
The Squatter 7 - Self Care
The Squatter 8 - Email

The Squatter 9 - Keyboard Shortcuts (again)

The Squatter 10 - What Sucks vs. What Doesn't Suck

The Squatter 11 - What do you Meme?

The Squatter 12 - Chrome Extensions (again)

The Squatter 13 - Ye Olde Classroom Hookup

The Squatter 14 - High Effect Tech

The Squatter 15 - Need a Lift?

The Squatter 16 - From My Library

The Squatter 17 - Vivi Can Do That?

The Squatter 18 - Twelve Days of Techmas

The Squatter 19 - The Omnibox

The Squatter 20 - Mitchell Myths

The Squatter 21 - Protect Yourself

The Squatter 22 - You Oughta Know

The Squatter 23 - Cognitive Bias

The Squatter 24 - Cognitive Bias vol.2

The Squatter 25 - Eduprotocols Introduction

The Squatter 26 - EduProtocols vol. 2

The Squatter 27 - ChatGPT Has You

The Squatter 28 - What Has AI Done For Me Lately?

The Squatter 29 - This is Hallomeme

The Squatter 30 - Rivals

The Squatter 31 - Musical Pep-Talk

The Squatter 32 - Is A.I. Cheating?

The Squatter 33 - Prompt Engineering

The Squatter 34 - Revenge of the Squat

The Squatter 35 - Hallomeme 2.0

The Squatter 36 - AI Literacy IS Literacy

Tall Tech Guy - Infographic format tech information aimed at students and created to be posted in the classroom.

Tall Tech Guy 1 - Chromebook Handling

Tall Tech Guy 2 - Make it Last

Tall Tech Guy 3 - Keyboard Shortcuts

Tall Tech Guy 4 - Social Media

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Tools

Yellkey.com - for easy, TEMPORARY web address shortening. More info in Squatter 4.
Plickers.com - Quick, multiple choice assessments for classes that don't have devices.
Adobe Scan - Use your phone to scan documents to PDF format.
Google Lens - Use your phone camera to do miraculous things, including copy text from images.
Microsoft Office Lens - Use your phone camera to scan documents into various Office apps.

• Google Play Store
• Apple App Store
• Microsoft Store

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Tech Tip of the Week

These will be more often than weekly until I get caught up with the posts.

January 29 - .new

January 30 - Watchkin
January 31 - Google Tour Builder
February 3 - PDF Candy
February 5 - Windows Snap
February 7 - Podcasts
February 7 - Copyright
February 10 - Nice One Dad
February 14 - The Squatter & Canva
February 18 - The Adjacent Possible
February 21 - Twitter for your PLN
February 28 - Be Internet Awesome
March 6 - Brush Ninja

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Lunch & Learn Sessions

• Session 1 - 1/17/2020
• Need/Want/Anything
• How can I help YOU in your classroom? - Email me to let me know.
• Yellkey.com
• Session 2 - 1/31/2020
• Adobe Scan
• Google Lens
• Microsoft Office Lens
• Google Play Store
• Apple App Store
• Microsoft Store
• Session 3 - 2/14/2020
• Google Classroom

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Videos

• Ed Tech 180 #1
• Publish Google Slides
• Insert URL in OBS
• Ed Tech 180 #2
• Chrome Extensions
• Print Friendly
• Quickie 1
• New Features in Google Meet
• Quickie 2
• Jamboard / Google Meet Integration
• Quickie 3
• Fix the Dreaded Blue Screen when Printing
• Classwize Training
• The basics of using Classwize to monitor student devices.
• Ed Tech 180 #4
• Google Chrome Bookmarks Bar
• Yes, I know. ET180 #3 had audio issues and had to be scrapped.