Satisfied Only with Success
This past Friday, I had the chance to visit a New Tech High School here in Texas. I honestly was not prepared for the impact it woul
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Breaking the Bottleneck
Earlier this week, the Texas Education Technology Network (TETN) broadcast instruction about how administrators w
NVU Replacement - Kompozer
A colleague dropped by and bragged that he'd heard from a student in college. "Yeah, she made an 'A' in her proje
Learning the Moodle Mambo
The following is a workshop I taught on using Moodle.... Welcome to the Doing the Moodle Mambo web site! The work of organizing these pages, as well as teaching workshops gave
Surveys and Forms with GoogleDocs
Source: Tweet from @tgray352 Thank to Tanya's tweet, I was reminded of two instance of GoogleDocs. Earlier this w
Enhancing Creativity, Not Irrelevance
Read Gary Stager's article and find out about this triangle mentioning Papert as a the learner centered point, Tom Snyder (my hero) as the teacher u
Joyce on Transparency
Joyce Valenza (Web Site Blog
Successful Bond Campaigns
"Successful Bond Campaigns Making the Case for Technology" was the title of a Texas CTO Clinic presentation facilitated by Vicki Smith Bigham (Email: [email protected]). You can
Stop Doing Lists
What's your "Stop Doing List?" Do you have one? Thanks to an article James O'Hagan shared, I stumbled across a quote from Jim Collins that I'd underlined, highlighted, promised to
Struggling with Community
A blog entry from Nancy at Random Thoughts forces me to ask, What is community? Defining a community, going on a pr
Audio Converters
MediaCoder Audio Edition is an audio transcoding tool based on MediaCoder. It nicely integrates many audi
Combining PDFs
I've probably written about combining PDFs before, but it doesn't hurt to revisit this... To combine PDFs... ...on a Mac, use PDFLab or
Converting Video MOD Files
Someone sent me an email asking, "How do I convert MOD files to something else on Windows?" I was stumped until I googled the answer
DasBoot - Create a Bootable USB Drive
If you have an Intel Mac, want to optimize your hard drive (or something else), don't reach for one of those CDs
Erase Free Space on Your Mac HD
This request came in at work...not as memorable as "O Captain, My Captain" but I won't complain too loudly... Mac God, Do you have any recommendation for a Hard Drive Cleaner
Flickr Code in PMWiki
How to get images to appear in your sidebar in PMWiki from Flickr: %sidehead%Photos '''[[
Flickr RSS Feed
Tom Barrett asked: Does anyone know how to create an RSS feed for an image search in Flickr? The answer is pretty straightforward...
Free Fonts
Looking for free open source fonts? Ruth Suehle writes a short entry here, spending more time about the [Free Font Ma
Polls and Survey Sites-Free
Conducting surveys and polls is great. When I need to conduct a survey, I use UCCASS. Over the years, I
Portable field mp3 recording devices
I am looking for your recommendations on portable mp3 field recorders. We want to send students out with easy to use, portable mp3 voice recorders to conduct interviews in
Read Gmail via RSS
I hate logging into Gmail or Thunderbird to read my email...I'd like to just pull it down like an RSS reader and
Tweak Windows Keys in BootCamp
Although I run VMWare Fusion on my personal Macbook, I found myself at the end of a budget year without the funds to buy Fusion for the work Macbook (by design, it's all by design)
Web-based Post Its
I was chronicling the Alone in the Middle story to YouTube movie publishing by young folks, and remembered an old presenta
WGET on Mac, Windows and Linux
Image Source: It is undisputed that Defenda