Category Archives: edtech

TrustyETC Googlified

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

A couple of weeks ago, my mail server started making one of those “it won’t be long now” sort of sounds.  It was the kind of noise you hear an eight year-old computer make just before everything goes dark. I have … Continue reading →

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Who Is Important Here?

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

If you could choose three people as the most prominent people in educational technology, who would you select? This is the question I posed to one of my classes. I gave no ground rules. We have no text book with … Continue reading →

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AndreaMosaic

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

John mentioned this mosaic program during EdTechWeekly last night.  AndreaMosaic is free.  You provide the program a directory of your pictures and one target image.  Above is something I created today.  I pointed AM to the folder with our pictures from … Continue reading →

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Google &as_qdr=d

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

The next time you use the Google, add this to the end of your search URL: &as_qdr=d Instead of this: http://www.google.com/search?q=”how+to+create+a+great+powerpoint” Make it like this: http://www.google.com/search?q=”how+to+create+a+great+powerpoint”&as_qdr=d Google then adds a time sensitive drop down box at the end of your … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 8.04… day two

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

After nine hours of downloading from the mirror at OSU, my connection was lost.  I tried one of the torrents just to compare the download time. Twenty minutes later, I had the ISO on my hard drive.  What a great … Continue reading →

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