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- KinderGarten (zip)
- KinderGarten is a fun-filled, colorful and interactive management game where you play Mila, the super sweet owner of the kindergarten. You have to help Mila take care of the babies that get dropped off by their mommies. Once you earn money, you can start using it to upgrade and expand...
- Tags: Baby, KinderGarten, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-10-22
- Kindergarten revolves around technology
- Kindergarten at the Arlington International Leadership School in Tennessee still has dress-up and nap time, but much of the academics are centered around a high-tech program to teach 5- and 6-year-olds computer skills, reports the Jackson Sun. "I never thought Id teach kids using PowerPoint," said kindergarten teacher...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Smart Board, Kindergarten, Ferguson, board
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
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- A good teacher goes a long ways
- My family joined my youngest son's Kindergarten teacher at an American Cancer Society Relay for Life this weekend. We only walked with her for an hour, but, having survived cancer a couple years ago, she asked her class to walk with her this year. Unfortunately, it was brutally...
- Tags: Mrs., Teacher, Kids, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-08
- Open source migration must be evolutionary
- Open source migration must be evolutionaryI agreeThe risk and effort involved in a all-in one migration is very high. Open source works great with proprietary software so there is no reason to migrate the server-side all at once. The desktop is a little harder to do.James DixonThis is why FOSS...
- Tags: Web browsers, Desktops, open source, migration, Open Source Migration, Microsoft Corp., desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Could Apple kill the Nintendo DS? I doubt it
- Could Apple kill the Nintendo DS? I doubt itWhat It Will DoThe iPhone need not completely subvert the DS to have a profound effect. First is the notion that adults would rather be seen with a iPhone than a DS. Second, this is the device that you have on your...
- Tags: Games, Apple iPhone, game, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Apple Inc., IPHONE IS, Nintendo DS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Do video games actually have a place in school?
- My soon-to-be first-grader just got a new game for the Nintendo Wii this weekend. He likes playing console games with his big brothers, but obviously Call of Duty isn't the best choice for a 5-year-old. However, the new game, Cosmic Family, is a slick game filled with puzzles...
- Tags: Video Game, Video, Nintendo Wii, Games, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- School District Saves Hundreds of Support Hours With Operating System Upgrade
- The Perry School District, in central Iowa, has about 1,850 students enrolled in grades kindergarten through 12. The district uses technology very effectively to create a productive learning environment. However, an increase in malicious software downloads and unauthorized system changes impaired computers and caused performance problems. With the help of...
- Tags: Operating System, School District, Microsoft Corp., Malicious Software, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Viruses And Worms, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Security
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Is there a happy medium for standardized testing?
- Is there a happy medium for standardized testing?Are they necessary?A question I am always hearing is whether standardized tests are necessary.I keep wondering whether it was necessary for my kid's physician to pass her MCATs. I mean, afterall, if the AYP testing proves so little, what does her MCAT...
- Tags: standardized testing, happy medium
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- Should Sugar be put out to pasture?
- A reader of the blog I posted yesterday ("Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?") raised some interesting objections to the Sugar user interface originally developed for the OLPC XO laptop. While I'm not sure I entirely agree with him, it does give some food...
- Tags: Operating System, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Kindergarten (exe)
- Welcome to Mila's day care extraordinaire. Help her make a success of her new child care center by changing, feeding, and entertaining a wide variety of little tykes, but don't send them back to thier mommys cranky. Happy babies earn you higher fees, higher fees mean better upgrades and better...
- Tags: Upgrade, Baby, SpinTop Games
- Software downloads 2008-04-28
- JuicyCampus, free speech, and personal responsibility
- Well the latest fad is upon us, and after a bit of a hiatus, I just had to write ... It is called JuicyCampus (see http://juicycampus.com/, if you must) and it certainly brings out the worst in us. Let's face it, people love to...
- Tags: Web, Action, JuicyCampus, Predator, Channel Management, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Little Hopper's Math Tac Toe (exe)
- Little Hopper's Math Tac Toe helps students practice their addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills in a fun and friendly environment. Users can play against the computer or head to head with a friend, parent, or teacher. Three math modes and two skill levels means that students can find a game...
- Tags: Skill, Productivity, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-01-23
- Animal Fun House (zip)
- Animal Fun House provides a good source of animal cartoon clipart. Simply selecting your choice of cartoons from Animal Fun House and pasting them to your favorite office software such as Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator, you can create attractive documents and artworks instantly. The following are some...
- Tags: Cartoon, Animal Fun House, Microsoft Word, Web Site Development, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Web Technology, Office Suites, Software, Internet
- Software downloads 2007-12-13
- Some brutal honesty about the iPhone's faults, and about that need for 3G (or 3.5G)
- Back when the iPhone came first out and I bitched and complained about its significant faults (lack of a replaceable battery was tops on my list, but the slower of AT&T's two networks and the soft-keyboard were others) to the point that I recommended waiting for v2.0, I took a...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, HSDPA, Phone, Network, Battery, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, 3G, Engineering, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Doing 1:1 the right way?
- Doing 1:1 the right way?A very interesting idea, Chris, but ...... with a caveat! These portfolios end up on publicly-owned servers. As such, they are publicly accessible in most states under freedom of information statutes -- just as the e-mail I write on university servers can be made...
- Tags: storage, server
- Discussion threads 2007-11-29
- Doing 1:1 the right way?
- Although announced earlier this month, the Fresno Unified School District has been getting a fair amount of exposure in the blogosphere recently for introducing 1000 Asus Eee PCs into its classrooms. The laptops will be shared among students in classroom sets and paired with a backend storage model allowing...
- Tags: Student, Laptop Computer, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Stem cell finding does not end debate
- Stem cell finding does not end debatecontroversyIt's been my experience that controversy is like a game score of one to nothing. The scientific finding is new, untested and has no history of success of failure. The controversy comes from the other side who have produced nothing but can't wait for...
- Tags: stem-cell, political debate
- Discussion threads 2007-11-26
- Ten Amazing Fruits (exe)
- Ten Amazing Fruits is a fascinating game for young children. This game stimulates imagination and develops eye-hand coordination. Controlling and changing the cartoon graphics fascinates children for hours. The different, funny Fruit faces that the children create can be printed or saved to disk. The cartoon graphics are easy to...
- Tags: Children, Games, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-11-15
- See the mind in action for good or ill
- ADHD is a very complex thing. It can be active or passive, and be identified through either mood swings or dyslexia. Diagnosis is tough, and a vital first step in dealing with the symptoms. There remain people who don't believe it exists. There are also people who...
- Tags: Diagnosis, Scientist, ADHD, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Not teaching safer surfing? You should be
- Not teaching safer surfing? You should beVirginia is one state taking charge of this!With Virginia's Dept of Ed's new Internet Safety Legislation, all school divisions have to put in place this year a program for implementing Internet Safety into their K-12 curriculum. Many divisions have teamed up to...
- Tags: Corporate communications, INTERNET, video
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
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