Archive for the ‘Tips and Tricks’ Category
Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
Whether you're just getting started with Del.icio.us or have hundreds of bookmarks, you'll probably find something new in "The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users" at the Slacker Manager blog. Habit #3, "Use the inbox," looks particularly interesting. It seems like it's possible to build up a complex set ...
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Sunday, December 11th, 2005
I resolved for my recent podcasting presentation at the TIES Conference to avoid bullet points entirely in my Keynote slides. I was motivated in part by some reading I've been doing at Presentation Zen, a blog devoted "professional presentation design." Two posts in particular, "Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic" ...
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Monday, November 21st, 2005
I'm in Rochester, MN for a couple days this week working as a mentor at an ISTE Institute. After listening to the latest Security Now! podcast with Steve Gibson where he talked about VPNs, I decided that I should probably get my act together and get set up with a ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
This caught me by surprise… We spent the first big block of time here at the ADE Summer Institute with "The Improv Lady" Rebecca Stockley learning some improvisation games and techniques. Among other clients, Rebecca works with Pixar animators to help them develop their stories and characters. She's been a ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
This session is called "Ideas for Using Technology in the Mathematics Classroom" and is presented by Frank Sobierajski.
He's talking about Geometer's Sketchpad, which is a piece of software our Hopkins math teachers have been working on since we adopted the Key Curriculum for next year in our secondary schools. He's ...
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
I've been using Apple's new OS 10.4 for over a month now and my initial impression was corrrect: the best new feature is Spotlight, Apple's desktop search system. Since buying a Brother 7820N laser printer/copier/fax/scanner a couple weeks ago I've realized that if I can find decent OCR software I have ...
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Terri Osland, my colleague at Hopkins High School, discovered a handy application that will find a place on our one-to-one laptops next fall. ImageWell is a tiny little program, but it has a bunch of handy features:
Drag images in and out of the well, resize, crop, shape, rotate and add ...
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
I have now emerged from the geek cave. Actually, my Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) installation went smoothly and I've been chugging along quite successfully since I finished the install last Saturday. There are a ton of new features, but my favorite so far is Spotlight, Apple's system search tool. It's ...
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Friday, April 29th, 2005
I am now entering the geek cave. I will not emerge until I have Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) installed on my PowerBook. With any luck I'll have a brief review to post later this weekend. In the meantime I've got a lot of backing up and restoring of files to ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
I found myself needing to send a very long URL to a group of teachers today and I suspected that not all of their email clients would handle a four-line hyperlink gracefully. So I reached into my bag of tricks and paid a visit to TinyURL.com, a handy little site ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2005
The success of Frank Miller's Sin City in theaters has brought the comic book genre into the spotlight. As a former Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and Daredevil fan I was quite intrigued when I heard about Comic Life on the MAKE:DIYcast podcast this morning. Comic Life is a Mac OS X ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2005
As much as we'd all like our students to spend all of their time doing hard-core constructivist school work, the fact remains that a lot of the learning we ask kids to do is not much more than memorization. So until cranial expansion slots are commonplace there will be a ...
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