Tag: software

OLPC on USB

One Laptop Per Child or OLPC initiative aims to provide low-cost laptops to the educational market.  These computers feature a special, education-focused operating system designed to work with a School Server that can provide content distribution, homework collection, backup services, Moodle integration, and filtered access to the Internet.  The main advantage of this operating system […]

ETEC 533 Final Reflection and Analysis

Below you will find my final reflection post for ETEC 533.  To see the article full screen please click here. Introduction When I started this ETEC 533 class I had a strong feeling that the activities and readings would help me to discover new interactions between learning and technology and further develop my understanding of […]

“Information Visualization”

I am grateful to be teaching in the technology-infused, connected world we live in today. As an educator the internet offers a vast array of resources that can be easily implemented in your average secondary classroom to meet information, communication and technology (ICT) outcomes and course outcomes or simply making a difficult concept easier for […]

Aviary – Free online graphics editing

A common problem for teachers and professionals on the go is having the software you need when you need it. As the Internet gets speedier and programmers get more creative we are beginning to see software move into the “cloud” of computers and servers. Cloudware is one of many terms used to describe software that […]

Google Earth 5.0

Google Earth 5.0 was released last week and I have been meaning to post about it for some time now.  A new feature added to Google’s already acclaimed software is the ability to step forward and backward through all available satellite imagery with a feature called “Historical Data”.  This relates to research in my ETEC […]

Touch Recognition for SMART Boards

SMART has just released a new feature for its SMART Boards that I heard about last year.  At a teacher’s convention I was talking to a SMART representative who put on his hush-hush voice and told me about a new feature that should be released in the next month.  The feature he spoke of was […]

Geek.Menu for your USB

For those out there that haven’t heard of Portableapps.com you should probably check it out.  These small portable versions of popular applications for productivity (Openoffice.org, Gimp), internet (Firefox, Thunderbird) and many other uses are great to have on the go along with your files. Now there is even a built in menu to keep the […]