Monday, December 10th, 2007
Kurt Steinhaus is Deputy Cabinet Secretary of Education in New Mexico. (He's also a marathoner who ran 4:38 at the 2007 Duke City Marathon.) The title of his talk is "Enjoying T-Time by the Sip or by the Gulp?". His slides will be available on the conference wiki.
Kurt wants us ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
I hear my share of horror stories from educators all over the country about innovative things they'd like to try with their students, but are unable to because of overly restrictive policies from their IT departments. Whether it's blocked URLs or an unwillingness to load a particular piece of software ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Fellow ADE Simon Elliott has got a huge list of free OS X applications on his web site. A huge number of the apps are open source and look like they could be of great use in the classroom. Looking through the list, I see quite a few that I ...
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Thursday, December 28th, 2006
An article at Linux.com about a new open source library circulation system caught my eye recently. We've had quite a battle getting a new library system going at work, and although I don't usually use this space to beat up on vendors I feel compelled to name names. Think long ...
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Here are the links for the open source tools that I mention in my talk at the TIES Conference.
Moodle, online learning management system
Audacity, audio editing
Inkscape, vector drawing
Scribus, desktop publishing
OpenOffice.org, office suite
NeoOffice, Mac version of OpenOffice.org
Linux, free Unix-like OS
Creative Commons
Open Source
Flickr, online photo sharing
Wikipedia, world's biggest encyclopedia
VLC, media player
Drupal, content management ...
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
It's that time of year again. The TIES Conference starts this Saturday and runs through Tuesday. I'm doing a day-long workshop called Podcasting A–Z that should be a blast. We're going to cover the full range of podcast production techniques including recording, editing, and publishing. I'm also doing an updated ...
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
I'm doing a talk at this year's TIES Education Technology Conference called "Open Source Tools You Can Use." Here's the description:
From tech support systems to graphics applications, there are hundreds of free and open source applications that will fit easily into your school’s technology environment. Participants will learn about the ...
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
This isn't a political blog, and I don't intend for it to become one. But I just can't ignore the technology angle that's brewing in our upcoming U.S. election. I've been concerned for some time about the potential for fraud and errors associated with the current state of electronic voting ...
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Those of us using OS X haven't had the easiest time with OpenOffice.org. Running that open source office suite has always required additional (but free) software that isn't usually installed by default on OS X systems. Once installed, the software never really fit in with the rest of my system since it ...
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Thursday, June 1st, 2006
My district is evaluating options for a new system to maintain our Web pages. We had a demo of SchoolCenter a couple days ago and it didn't look too bad. I found their templates to be pretty unattractive, but they're probably better than most schools' Web pages. While poking around ...
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
Mark McCahill is from the University of Minnesota and is one of the architects of the Croquet Project, an open source peer-to-peer system for building virtual worlds like those found in World of Warcraft and Second Life. Those of you who've been around the Internet block a few times might ...
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Paul Nelson is Technology Director at Riverdale High School in Portland, OR and co-creator of the K-12 Linux Terminal Server Project. K-12 LTSP is a really cool way to take older machines and breathe new life into them by connecting them to a powerful server that takes over the bulk ...
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