Posted in About, software on Nov 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Eagle-eyed blog readers will have noticed that I just changed the header of the blog. The new one is a shot I took of the Yarra Valley in May 2007 when I had a magical weekend up that way.
It’s actually two ore three images stitched together with Auto-Stitch, a great little program for stitching together [...]
Posted in software on Nov 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve blogged about OneNote before a few times; probably the ONE tool that I’d really miss if I ever moved over to the Mac platform and left the Windows side behind. It’s a part of MS Office, and a really flexible, functional tool for gathering notes. I’ve set up my students with it over the [...]
Posted in software, tools and gadgets on Aug 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
It’s about this time of year that we look again at the software list for next year’s notebook image; what’s new and should be on student and teacher computers, and what is no longer doing the job. I keep a bit of a list on a page here called Essential Software, which I must update [...]
Posted in software, tablet_pcs, tools and gadgets on Mar 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
I realised this week that I hadn’t talked much here about one of the most significant technology changes we’ve made for students this year, that is moving to the tablet pc format for the notebook computers at our school.
A group of teachers, including me, trialled tablet pcs over the last year and have found them [...]
Posted in software, tablet_pcs, teaching strategies, tools and gadgets on Jan 28th, 2008 2 Comments »
An interesting non-edublog post from a high school maths teacher talking about technology, productivity and what software schools should be supporting teachers with. There are a lot of comments and suggestions at the end of the post too. The post describes the multi-pronged problem as:
I have found it increasingly annoying to hear from on high [...]
Posted in software, tools and gadgets on Dec 10th, 2007 No Comments »
I see that the Windows Live Writer is out of beta and into full implementation. This is a blog writing tool. You set up your blog or blogs and then writer the entry in Windows Live Writer and publish it to your site, or multiple sites.
It IS nice to type your blog into [...]
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