Free Technology for Teachers: Reminder: Take Out the Trash

About a month in the past I received a brand new MacE-book Air. It has been a few decade since I final used a Mac as my major laptop. 

One of the issues that I’m consistently reminded of whereas utilizing my MacE-book Air is the necessity to clear stuff off of the desktop. As you would possibly guess, I take loads of screenshots for work. Out of behavior, I ship them to my desktop to make it simple to search out them whereas I’m working. But they do fill the desktop display rapidly. At the tip of the day I drag all of them to the trash. 

Why am I telling you this? I’m telling you this as a result of I seemed in my trash bin yesterday night and noticed that I had greater than 100 gadgets in it. I rapidly emptied it. 

Why does that matter? Because the trash bin, the downloads folder, and the paperwork folders are locations which might be usually filled with information we now not want. And whereas holding onto miscellaneous screenshots and paperwork most likely will not hinder your laptop’s efficiency to a notable degree, those self same folders when stuffed with video information, excessive decision photographs, and enormous GIS information definitely might. So make it a behavior to empty the trash and different folders which have information you do not want in your laptop anymore. 

This is one in every of 5 ideas that I spotlight in a Practical Ed Tech information to enhancing your laptop’s efficiency. You can view the information and get a replica of the information proper right here.