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Thanks for the kind words those of you who attended my CUE 2010 presentation on Open Source Animation.  Attached, you will find a .ZIP file containing my first nine assignments in PDF format.  These assignments use Pencil and Pivot (Stykz) about half the time and Adobe Flash CS4 the other half.  Fell free to repurpose [...]

I’ve always been disappointed by how much software companies charge education.  Sometimes, you find great software at a reasonable price, but other times you don’t.  One area that comes to mind here is in the area of Interactive Whiteboards.  Leading companies like SmartBoard and Promethean charge thousands of dollars for a single installation.  So it [...]

Ubuntu Linux is a wonderful operating system. Over time, each new release has gotten closer and closer to being usable by real people. Real people like teachers, students and (gasp) site administrators. People who just turn on and USE computers to do things, and nothing more. In October, the Ubuntu folks released Ubuntu 7.10 (code [...]

  I will be presenting at the CUE “Digital Natives / Digital Immigrants” Conference in Monterey on Saturday, December 1st, 2007. You can find a copy of my PowerPoint presentation here converted to PDF format: Using WordPress In Education PDF

We have all run into CAPTCHAs (those little squiggly words we must type to access web services). You might also know there are multiple projects under way with the goal of scanning books and documents into digital form. Now imagine combining these two concepts! Enter reCAPTCHA, whose goal it is to provide login security AND [...]

Have you ever wished that your hard drive would just tell you why it’s so full, and what files are filling it up?  Well, now there is a free program called WinDirStat that does just that.  WinDirStat, gives you a graphical view of your hard drive with blocks representing files.  The beauty of this is, [...]

One of the major problems with the Internet in general is the number of logins each user must have to navigate the net. Currently, I have over 50 registrations or passwords to websites that I use in one way or another. There have been many attempts in the past to have one login/password for all [...]