Tag: software
The Alternative WP apps
I was listening to an excellent interview of one of the creators of Scrivener, a word processing...
Weak – Laptop Hunter Picks PC for Video Editing
Come on, Microsoft. Clearly you’ve forgotten one of the first tenets of Sun Tzu’s The...
Broke Bookends
Remember how impressed I was last time when I was using online research tools? Yeah, in the meantime I’ve run headlong into a less than amazing experience. I went so far as to pay for the upgrade of my copy of Bookends,...
Almost Painless RSS
I live in my email app and my browser, but don’t expect me to visit your site everyday just...
Zotero & RefWorks: Damn Web-Based Apps that Work
I’ve been going at it all day, one tutorial after another, pausing to answer student queries...
Simplicity v Flexibility – iMovie 08
iMovie 08 goes from clip to ship with the greatest of ease. But maybe it’s just too easy for this home-video veteran.
Wrestling with TurboCAD … Day Two
I have say it, I hate it when I have to learn anything and CAD programs have got to be the worst. I’ve already mentioned losing several hours last spring when I first started looking into using a CAD program to do the lab...
One Keyboard (& mouse) To Rule them All – Amended!
What the hell was all that about? All I wanted to do was write that Synergy is friggin’ awesome. I launch the “server” on the mbp and the clients on the G4 and PC and if I want to do something on the G4 I just...
Ed Tech: Computer Labs versus Classroom Computers
Ed Tech: Computer Labs versus Classroom Computers It’s traditional that the showcase of any school with a halfway decent tech program is their computer lab. Go to any school site and if they want to show off their tech...
Ed Tech: Tool To Create/Adapt the Curriculum
Ed Tech: Tool To Create/Adapt the Curriculum Over the years, as I moved from high school to college to whatever it is that is supposed to follow college, I seriously began to work at my skills as a writer (after all, I did get a...
Ed Tech: Tools to Manage the Classroom
Education & Technology: Tools to Manage the Classroom When I came into the classroom in 1995, after 15-years at the phone company, I had no idea what one could or couldn’t do with technology so I just adapted what...
Pepperdine OMAET Blog Summary – Manning The Gap
I use technology, I have for over twenty-years. But I’m not so caught up with these little beasties to lose sight that they are essentially tools. As such, a careful balance needs to be made so that we don’t forget...
When It’s More Important to Have Shiny Tools Than To Use Them
At this past district tech meeting (10/12) the director told a story about a neighboring district’s network going down for two-weeks, referring to it as a “career ending” situation that our district will never...
Invention Requires Not Knowing Any Better
Whenever I heard or read the innovators of the PC revolution talk about what it was like in the “old days,” when they were starting out, to a person they always begin by saying that they had no idea what they were...
Bible Geek
So last week I finally decided that I needed to take another step and order this Bible software...
