May 21, 2018
The Rocketbook An Erasable Smart Notebook
I have mentioned the Rocketbook in my Gadgets presentation for a few years now and was happy when the gang at Rocketbook approached me asking if I would be interested in my very own lesliefisher.com Rocketbook. I now offer them at conferences bundled with my membership as a book signing as well as…
May 21, 2018
Mentimeter Create Interactive Slide Show Presentations
I learned about Mentimeter from Cassandra Stewart at FETC 2018 and thought it was about darn time I shared it with you as well. Mentimeter allows you to create presentations easily than can then be shared with an audience to interact with. I wrangled up 6 of my friends and we all…
May 17, 2018
Slido Possibly your Alternative to Today’s Meet
Today's Meet has been a popular backchannel tool for years but is sadly closing its doors in June 2018. While looking into alternatives I discovered Sli.do which offers a variety of interactive tools that might work well in your classroom and/or professional development. I share a…
April 4, 2018
Tinylinq A customized URL shortening service
TinyLINQ is a wonderful higher end URL shortening customization platform. Based on open source, TinyLINQ will help you acquire, administer and host a shortened domain that you can then customize to your liking. TinyLINQ helped me purchase the leslie.link domain which I now use to shorten links…
April 1, 2018
Yellkey I love it and here is a video explanation of it
Need to get a link to a group of people quickly? Yellkey. It's great. Yellkey is a simple way to quickly get links to a group of people you might be standing in front of teaching to, presenting to, etc. The only heads up I will give you is that the shortened link expires after a set…
April 1, 2018
Delivr The Link Shortener You Might Not Know About. Complete with an Awesome Feature
Delivr is a great way to shorten a link complete with a QR code. Not only that the creator of the shortened link can head back to it at any time and change its destination URL. Perfect for having one shortened URL for something such as an Exit Ticket link that can have its destination link…
March 18, 2018
Microsoft Translator. Your first step to bringing the United Nations of languages into your classroom
A huge thank you to Brandon Petersen @Den_Petersen Who wanted to make sure I knew about this app. Microsoft Translator allows you to have point to point conversations in a multitude of languages (more languages are being added all of the time. This is a newer solution from…
March 17, 2018
Home, Smart Home
I was interviewed in January 2018 for Curbed about my Smart Home. You can read the article here
February 28, 2018
Voice Dictation in Google Keep
Google Keep has a lot of nice hidden features. This is one of my favorites. Using the Google Keep mobile app to voice dictate a note. It will listen to you, grab the text and record the audio. It will then save it as a note complete with selectable text and playable audio within Keep allowing you to…
February 18, 2018
Like Augmented Reality? Then you need to check out the Merge Cube
At the time of this typing, Merge Cube is available at some WalMart locations for only $1. Also, most of the apps for it are free! The video below will introduce you to the Merge Cube. A cube when combined with one of its many available apps will layer Augmented Reality over the cube that you can…