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Teaching the smart kids (or at least the motivated kids)

For the first time since I've been teaching I have a high-end physics class this semester. Everything I've taught to this point has been computer application electives, introductory physics, or remedial math, all of which present a variety of challenges in addressing student needs and keeping kids on track....

Tags: Semester, Kid, Physics Class, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Edu Planner (exe)

Edu Planner is a free application that is also portable and easy to use. Being portable standalone means that it can be stored on a removable storage device, such as USB drive. Edu Planner was designed for University students and anyone who likes to manage their tasks on a weekly...

Tags: Removable Storage, Student, Semester, Edu Planner

Software downloads 2007-08-20

A new year (and semester) is upon us

Well, if you work in University IT, your students are back in town and classes are about to start. More likely than not, faculty are starting to panic because the application they requested on 22 December is still not deployed to hundreds of workstations which their students will be...

Tags: semester, University IT, information technology

Blog posts 2007-01-06

Wiki as a Tool for Web-Based Collaborative Story Telling in Primary School: A Case Study

Wikis are simple to use collaborative hypertext authoring systems. In recent years, these systems have caught the attention of the education community, because they embody many aspects of personal empowerment and communication between learners. To date, most work on Wiki in education has focused on use for information creation and...

Tags: Web, Semester, Tool, Wiki, Online Communications

White papers 2005-07-01

Additional Resources

How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability

The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...

Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

I have to stop using Gmail :(

I have to stop using Gmail :(You can enable POP3 support in Gmail...If you switch on POP3 support in Gmail, then you can still comply with archiving procedures: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13273That way, you can both send and receive e-mails with an e-mail client like Thunderbird or Evolution or even Outlook Express. I...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Using Gmail, Google Gmail, archiving, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

What programming language should we teach?

What programming language should we teach?Re: What programming language should we teach?How about Javascript? No, seriously... it's free, it's cross-platform, it's already available on virtually ANY computer without needing to install anything at all, it's not terribly complicated, and it greatly resembles many of the other languages in use.When it...

Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, C#, Scripting languages, programming, programming language

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

"Everything gets delivered in an electronic form" - Textbooks, too?

"Everything gets delivered in an electronic form" - Textbooks, too?Well...Producing texts is "fun" and all that, however you've got a hurdle or two to overcome. Nothing unsurmountable, but they're there.The prime issue is that publishers have an awful lot of material locked down under copyright, particularly in terms of graphics....

Tags: E-books, LaTeX, textbook, e-book

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...

Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, data-processing, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COBOL, mainframe, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Frequent open source miles

Frequent open source milesThe gov. should pay for FOSS!Since FOSS is like a free utility for everyone, like a library where membership is free, the government should pick up the tab and pay the developers and companies that develop GPLed software.We doDon't overlook the fact that "open source" is publishing....

Tags: Vertical industries, F/OSS, open source mile, government, open source, software

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

College Schedule Maker (zip)

College Schedule Maker helps students to create their own course schedules. Example: In our university, there is a system called Online Banner where we can register our courses for the next semester. The Problem: Almost all the times we face time-conflict of a course with another, so lot of us...

Tags: Student, Course, AddaxSoft, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-05-14

A new must-read for math/science teachers

A new must-read for math/science teacherssorry, sorta uselessquarts gallonpints quartinches footEver hear of metric?This week's book for my 6-year oldBesides my 8-year old's passion for being a member in the WordMasters group before school starts in the AM, my 6-year old brought home last week a booked entitled "Jump...

Tags: new must-read, math/science, must-read

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

Got a .edu email address? Pick up Microsoft Office Ultimate for $60!

Here's a deal that some of you might be interested in: "The semester may be ending, but that doesn't mean the educational discounts have dried up for the summer — yet. Actively enrolled college students with .edu e-mail addresses (and carrying at least a 0.5-credit course load) have one...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., E-mail Address, E-mail, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Is your keyboard dirtier than a toilet seat?

Is your keyboard dirtier than a toilet seat?As my microbiology prof saidat the beginning of the semester:Two weeks into this class and you'll want to be like Howard Hughes, trying to sequester yourself from the little critters crawling everywhere.After two months, you'll get over it and realize that there's not...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, toilet seat

Discussion threads 2008-05-01

Forget the paperless office dream, but how about a paperless living room?

Like several high tech innovations Zinio began as a digital service aimed at B2B. But it worked, so it's inevitably grown to become a global, consumer-oriented service as well. If it works at work, just think how you can use it at home. And then...

Tags: Magazine, Zinio, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Turns out it's harder to be green when you have a lot of green

Turns out there's some truth to that phrase "filthy rich," at least when it comes to your environmental footprint. Web site TGDaily reports today about a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that proves (surprise, surprise) that your typical billionaire like tech titan Bill Gates...

Tags: Footprint, Ton, Carbon Footprint, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Advertising & Promotion, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-04-28

If my kid doesn't like Linux now...

...then I'll give him Vista. I finally had the chance to install Ubuntu 8.04 on his laptop last night, wiping out an unhappy 64-bit Kubuntu 7.10 installation. His final words before I took the laptop were, "Just save my music." Typical teenager. So I backed up...

Tags: Desktop, CD, NVidia Corp., Laptop Computer, Vista Business DVD, Linux, Notebooks, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-04-28

Using green tech ideas to save paper

Using green tech ideas to save paperE-ink and audio books also helpFirst of all, I'm not so sure that books are really the biggest cause of problems.But if you really want to avoid the paper form of books, you can always get an E-Ink reader like Amazon.com's Kindle, or get...

Tags: green tech idea, green technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-12

When all the technology in the world won't help

A masters thesis fell into my lap earlier this year when I switched second semester classes and taught another section of informal geometry. I decided to look at the section I taught in the first semester with an inclusion teacher versus the section I was teaching second semester. ...

Tags: Geometry, Teacher, Microsoft Excel, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-04-10

French court says site cannot grade teachers

French court says site cannot grade teachersActually, one could conclude thatit is up to students to hail or rail against the pros and cons of their teachers real issues not rants or raves, not necessarily on the grounds of their teachers educational credentials, but on the manner of their teaching,...

Tags: Performance management, French Court

Discussion threads 2008-03-03