A student of mine writes, Have you seen this yet ? Its a great idea http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1772009 ignore the fact that its from collegehumor.com lol The video is a presentation from the SIGGRAPH conference and describes new research in automatic image resizing. Know how your web pages reflow if you resize the window? Imagine if the [...]
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My Yearbook class collaborated last week on the ladder diagram for this year’s book. In the course of two class periods, we laid you the entire book and the students take ownership for the sections. And the room was nearly silent the whole time! The screen capture, below, shows the ladder diagram document and our [...]
I have about 100 users and 3 network printers in my school. About two years ago, I installed PaperCut to manage print quotas for students and teachers. PaperCut is set to limit students to printing 50 pages per week and teachers to 100 pages per week. For everyone, I opted to limit any single print [...]
I just signed up for a free account at Gliffy, which bills itself as a web based diagramming program that feels like desktop software. It works a lot like Visio. Signup requires an email address, so I probably won’t use Gliffy with my middle school students — which is a shame. I continue to struggle [...]
I teach at a small private school where students are anywhere from 9 years old to 18. One of the challenges of such a large age range is that I need to stretch my software budget to cover kids with very divergent developmental needs (not to mention divergent interests). Enter free software. In school, the [...]
