toggl.com - Time tracking without taking up time to track it

www.toggl.com

Have you ever looked back on your day, having so many items on your to-do list still not completed, and wondered where all your time went? Or do you feel that you might be giving more time to a project than it needs? Or do you have a job where you want to easily complete your timesheet and export it to your boss or client? Then Toggl might just be the tool you need!

Toggl helps you keep track of your time with a simple click of a button. You can access your account across platforms (e.g., on your computer desktop, on your mobile phone, on your tablet, on any browser with an internet connection). It's available for Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Windows.

You can export your tracked time in a spreadsheet format, or you can have it e-mailed. You can even e-mail it to yourself once a week!

How much does this cost? Nothing! You can even make your account via your Google account. There is an option to get more features for $5/month. You can even track your time as "billable" or "non-billable".

Finally, be sure to watch these two videos, which are about 1 minute long each, to get the hang of how to use it.
http://youtu.be/xc_Z19pWllQ
http://youtu.be/8hdCOnW6oH0

Then, download it on your devices, and get ready to open the black box containing the information about where all your time went! For instance, I just spent about 5 minutes researching and downloading Toggl, then about 10 minutes writing this blog post. Easy as pie!

Evernote - organizing with Table of Contents

http://evernote.com/video/#D7oSS4i57MY|1|1

I know I already posted about the Evernote app, but here's some additional information for those of you who use the desktop version (PC or Mac). You can create a "table of contents" for a notebook, which will link directly to each note that you wish to include!

An example of what a table of contents in Evernote could look like.

This seems like a great idea for those of us who keep a compilation of ideas or documents for future use. I'm definitely going to start using it to keep track of notes, so I can organize them into ideas without having to create new notebooks just for one "subtheme" (e.g., LGBT Research is the notebook, but LGBT Youth could be the sub-theme, and I could list all the notes related to LGBT Youth in the Table of Contents).

A quick reference on how to create a table of contents.

You can watch the video (see link at top, or click here) for more details on how it works.

And if you haven't downloaded the desktop version of Evernote, do it now! Click here to download it from Evernote.

KhanAcademy.org - its all about the math, y'all

I'm sure many of you already know about KhanAcademy.org, but if not, it is an online repository of learning modules on just about any topic you can imagine, from math, to science and economics, and more.

I want to focus your attention on a particular set of modules at the Khan Academy on probability and statistics (click here). Kal (the founder of the site, and the author of this particular series of modules) is a brilliant guy, and really good at breaking down statistics to social worker speed. It was a great supplement to the standard coursework on quantitative methods in my program.

Topics include:

• Independent and dependent events
• Probability and combinatorics
• Random variables and probability distributions
• Descriptive statistics
• Regression
• Inferential statistics

Need I say more? Get to clickin', y'all. ;-)

Jing - screen capture in no time flat!

Get Jing here: http://www.techsmith.com/jing-features.html
So, I know there are tons of screen capturing software options out there, but I really enjoy using Jing for a few reasons. #1, it's free. (You know how I feel about free stuff!) #2, it's simple! You can install it quickly, and use it with ease! When you want to do a screen capture, you simply click on the little sun icon that hides at the top of your screen, then drag your cursor to select a rectangle portion of your screen, and then a dialogue box pops up asking you what you want to do with it! You can save that portion of the screen as an image, or you can use that portion of your screen to start recording a screen-cast, and lots more! Check out the link at the beginning of this post to start exploring the possibilities of what easy screen capturing can do for you.

Amara.org - subtitles so you can be heard around the world!

So, you know how you tech-savvy social workers are creating videos of your presentations and lectures? (Right??) Well, if you want to have subtitles in a different language, that's easy! Just upload your video to YouTube, then make an account with Amara.org. It's incredibly easy, and it just got easier with the announcement of a new feature. See details in their press release, here. Now it's easier than ever to expand your social work projects to the international arena. Globalization, here we are!