Monthly Archives: April 2006

Podcasts from NSBA’s TLN meeting

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I posted recently about my trip to my Chicago to do some podcasting. Apple sponsored a day-long meeting of NSBA’s Technology Leadership Network, and we had some great speakers. David Warlick delivered a great opening keynote, and Ken Kay from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills did a wonderful job of putting 21st century skills into context for me and everyone else in attendance.

I recorded Ken’s presentation and created an enhanced podcast that includes the slides from his talk. I didn’t record David’s session, but we sat down for a chat afterwards. You can download both podcasts from the official NSBA conference blog.

nsba, nsba2006, tln, david warlick, ken kay, 21st century skills

Ed Tech Coast to Coast lives!

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Steve Burt has been busy. He’s posted three new editions of Ed Tech Coast to Coast in the last couple weeks. In particular, we recorded something from FETC a couple weeks ago and most recently a chat with a superintendent and school board member following their blogging panel discussion at the NSBA Conference. You’ll find links to the panelists’ own blogs at the NSBA blog entry on the session.

You can listen and subscribe to the feed at ODEO.

Apple Store visit

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I took a walk down Michigan Avenue to the Apple Store tonight. My hotel doesn’t have wireless so I decided to pick up an AirPort Express to create my own wireless network in my room. Why is it that the nicer the hotel, the worse their network seems to be?

The Apple Store in Chicago is impressive. What’s more amazing is that the place was packed at 8:30 on a Thursday night. Most of the people there were just hanging out and playing around with the products. The store has a large theater area, but unfortunately I’d just missed a Final Cut Pro demonstration. The atmosphere at one of these stores couldn’t be more different than Microcenter, Fry’s, or any of the other large computer/technology retailers. But then it’s pretty obvious that the Apple Stores aren’t selling technology. They’re selling a geek chic lifestyle, and from the looks of it a lot of people in Chicago are buying.

Windows on Mac with Apple’s blessing

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For most of us who use Macs, OS X is the reason why. Sure, the hardware is beautiful to look at, but that’s just eye candy without having powerful applications available. So when Apple announced their transition to Intel chips last year and the buzz began about the possibility of running Microsoft Windows on Apple hardware, I was one of many people who were probably wondering why anyone would want to do that.

But as soon as the Intel-based Macs became available, the race was on. One contest sprang up and quickly established a $13,000 bounty for the first person to get XP running on a Mac. The prize was claimed pretty quickly and the process of getting Windows installed, though long and complicated, got easier as more and more drivers became available.

Everything changed today. Apple announced Boot Camp and things just got a lot more interesting. From the site: “Once you’ve completed Boot Camp, simply hold down the option key at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows. (That’s the “alt” key for you longtime Windows users.) After starting up, your Mac runs Windows completely natively. Simply restart to come back to Mac.”

So you’ve been wanting to try podcasting with GarageBand, but you’re “stuck” running Windows? You can now buy a Mac and dual-boot Windows and OS X. Pretty cool.

windows, macosx, apple