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- Laptop or desktop+netbook for back to school?
- It's almost August, folks. We all know what that means, right? If you don't already have a computer for school, you need to get one, PDQ. For some of you in K-12, your school might have a 1:1 program and you'll take a laptop home with you...
- Tags: Desktop, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Required summer reading: Neuromancer turns 25
- Most of us have probably read Neuromancer, the canonical work by William Gibson, the loose basis for the Matrix movies, and, arguable, the first major book of the cyberpunk genre. Can you tell I'm a fan? I bring this up because this is the book's 25th...
- Tags: Idea, Computer, WWW, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Now this is stimulus
- As I sat through a DSL install at one of our schools this morning, I Tweeted my excitement at finally leaving a fractional T1 behind at this particularly remote school. The bandwidth, usually running around 200kbps, has seriously hampered our efforts to roll out e-learning tools, so a 6MBps...
- Tags: School, Australia, 6MBps, E-learning, Training And Certification, Network Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Our new business/technology curriculum
- Our new business/technology curriculumGoogle Docs & Zoho Stands OutGoogle Docs & Zoho Stands Out as these tools are available for $0 and we can still enjoy the full features of that.Cheers,-Kathiravan Manoharanhttp://kathyravan.blogspot.comhttp://paisamechanic.blogspot.comRE: Our new business/technology curriculumGoogle Docs & Zoho Stands Out as these tools are available for $0 and we...
- Tags: Marketing research, new business/technology curriculum, business/technology curriculum, Zoho, Google Docs, survey
- Discussion threads 2009-02-03
- 'Facebookgate': Fake Class of 2013 groups today; Annoying marketing tomorrow?
- 'Facebookgate': Fake Class of 2013 groups today; Annoying marketing tomorrow?RE: 'Facebookgate': Fake Class of 2013 groups today; Annoying marketing tomorrow?I wall start a new site called FaceSpace. Facebook is so 2008...Thanks!Thanks for posting some thoughts on the story. It has certainly raised many questions and issues within the higher...
- Tags: Spam, Branding, Annoying marketing, Facebook, Fake Class, Facebookgate
- Discussion threads 2008-12-21
- How many printers do we need?
- How many printers do we need?As long as you always have one working laser you're fine.Having someone go out and grab papers for the teacher should be a non-issue. Tip the janitor if you have to. More printers equals more maintenance, more toner, and more wasted electricity. ...
- Tags: Printers, Document management, Projectors, Copiers, printer, printing, laser, inkjet printer, projector
- Discussion threads 2008-12-08
- Teaching object-oriented programming with Greenfoot
- Another topic I covered with during my interview with Sun Microsystems' Joe Hartley was "Greenfoot," a tool that Sun helped develop providing financial and consultative support to the developers to teach students about object-oriented programming. While most students pick up algorithmic approaches to programming fairly easily, many struggle to...
- Tags: Object-oriented Programming, Student, Object-oriented, Programming, Greenfoot IDE, Development Tools, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Is OpenOffice good enough?
- Is OpenOffice good enough?For the vast majority of users, it works fine.For the vast majority of users, it works fine. There are occasional features that it doesn't do so well at, but it has all of the standard word processing features that most people need.If you need to use some...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, object-oriented, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Can HP's new ULPC compete?
- I just might be buying a bunch of these...this is a repost while I'm on vacation, but I'd appreciated any new feedback now that these have been in the wild for a bit. Tell us what you think of them. HP announced today that it would...
- Tags: Misconception, Hewlett-Packard Co., Video Editing, Video, Laptop Computer, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Corporate Communications, Open Source, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Nothing new for Ed Tech at Macworld?
- Well, sort of. If you were looking for a new entry-level headless desktop, then no. If you were looking for a UMPC-style low cost Macbook, then no. A brilliantly-executed OLPC competitor for Steve Jobs' "One more thing" that never happened? No, nothing like that, I'm afraid....
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Macworld, Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- What would my ideal education ultraportable look like?
- What would my ideal education ultraportable look like?my specsMine would be very similar to an Eee PC but with a touchscreen and solid state storage. With the ability to run apps locally and remotely. And yes the magic price would be $200 :)www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htmYour specs would be perfect for your classroomWhereas...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, ideal education, laptop computer, keyboard, education, Webcam
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- What would my ideal education ultraportable look like?
- The OLPC XO, Intel Classmate, and Asus Eee all bring important features to the table and put 1:1 computing models within reach of many more districts than ever before. However, all have merits and detriments, compromises, and baggage. The XO struggles with performance, stability, and distribution models. ...
- Tags: Education, ASUS, Webcam, Operating System, Intel Corp., Intel Classmate, Asus Eee, XO, Ebook Mode, E-books, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Wireless, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Young adults are actually using libraries
- Young adults are actually using librariesThe are going there to - get ONLINE !THe part you failed to mentions ... they are going there to *drum rool* ... GET ONLINE !Good to hearParticularly since we've been hearing for years that the WWW has made public libraries obsolete (usually when politicians...
- Tags: CAD, Public Library, Internet, Young Adult
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
- Young adults are actually using libraries
- Just when you thought us aging Gen-Xers and our Generation iPod successors had given up on anything other than Google and Sparknotes, a new study was featured on CNN.com suggesting three things: Young adults actually use libraries, The role of libraries is evolving in an increasingly digital world,...
- Tags: Library, Internet, Job Training, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-01
- Google U.S. Web search share jumps to 58.5 percent
- Google U.S. Web search share jumps to 58.5 percentI don't understandAre MS' search guys sleeping? According to [url=http://tinyurl.com/2brpu6]this report[/url], MS' market share slipped to 7.4%. Can't MS continuously tweak its search algorithms and use focus groups to help identify the best formula? For what it is worth, I indicated [url=http://tinyurl.com/222xyu]here[/url]...
- Tags: Operating systems, Web, gmail, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Google U.S., Google U.S. Web
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- Apple's most valuable vendors; New campus on tap; Jobs raise possible
- Apple's most valuable vendors; New campus on tap; Jobs raise possibleDouble or even TripleI think they can afford to double, or even triple Jobs' salary! Who could complain about that?Does ANYONE proof read these articles?Apparently not, because the "Jobs may get a raise Techmeme. From the filing:" section is all...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, job, salary, Apple Inc., valuable vendor
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- Apple: Back to the Mac (and the future)
- Apple's Mac business is an unappreciated juggernaut--it's delivering big time, but the pyrotechnics from the iPhone and iPod overshadow old reliable. Apple's fourth quarter report on Monday will change that equation. Most earnings previews (New York Times, Tom Krazit and TheStreet.com) about Apple's September quarter note the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Keith Bachman, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Open source booming in K-12 education
- Open source booming in K-12 educationOne thing...Peer reviewed journals are nice and all. But do you really expect high schoolers to understand the papers, and how many of them are free and accessible for free from home?Other than that, I'd be interested to see you delve deeper into this topic.I...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, open source, Internet, computer, K-12
- Discussion threads 2007-08-31
- Free tuition for math/science majors?
- Free tuition for math/science majors?Good idea, but only if outsourcing is stoppedStudents won't pick up a major where most of the related jobs are moved overseas.Carry it fartherAs one of those victims of outsourcing now working in a mundane industry with a BS in Physics and advanced database, networking and...
- Tags: education, job, outsourcing, tuition
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
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