Category Archives: edtech

Let’s Make This Hard

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Yesterday I talked about an activity in class that should have been easier than it was. My students captured the screen to a file and used the pictures to create a tutorial. Normally, capturing the screen is trivial in OS … Continue reading →

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Learn Fast – Word For Dummies

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

My computer lap is dual platform. The machines are Intel based Apples, but we have boot camp on all the machines along with OS X. Most days the students decide which operating system to use on an individual basis. On … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Wiki Project

Posted on October 30, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Before I started class today, this article popped up in my aggregator. Ironically, we had just finished an assignment that was closely related. Martha Groom presented “Using Wikipedia to Reenvision the Term Paper” at Educause last week (link includes her … Continue reading →

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Veropedia

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Veropedia has almost 4000 “verofied” entries in wiki format. Here is the first paragraph from their “about” page. Veropedia is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia’s content, clean it up, vet it, … Continue reading →

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Splashcast

Posted on October 27, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Here is another tool that you can use to publish your PowerPoint with audio. SplashCast does it all. The SplashCast service enables anyone to create streaming media ‘channels’ that mix together video, music, photos, narration, text, as well as RSS … Continue reading →