Monthly Archives: April 2007

T.H.E. Journal has an article discussing the legal issues involved in using biometrics in a public school. If you aren’t familiar with these devices, they are used to authenticate a person using a personal attribute that cannot be stolen or … Continue reading →

John has a post about grammar and spelling that hits home. I have never been a great speller. Technologies like Word’s auto-correction feature and ieSpell’s web form spell checker have made things much better. I still put in “you” when … Continue reading →

I saw this for the first time over the weekend (I don’t watch much TV). I had two thoughts. 1 – Didn’t Apple start the whole “cancel or allow” thing? OS X has always required major changes in the OS … Continue reading →

After yesterday’s post about PowerPoint, my wife and I have had a lengthy discussion about using PowerPoint in class. She teaches education classes at Ohio State so we are always stealing each other’s material. She is going to use my … Continue reading →

You may have seen this post in Slashdot a couple of days ago. It points to an article talking about the research of Australian educator, John Sweller. Sweller developed the “cognitive load theory” which explains how our brains handle new … Continue reading →