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Maggie Verster

Pencil - a traditional 2D animation software - 12 views

www.pencil-animation.org

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shared by Maggie Verster on 12 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 12 Nov 09
     
    "Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source. "
M Jesús García San Martín

DVD Malted 3. Serie Recursos Educativos 2011 para idiomas - 1 views

recursostic.educacion.es/...index_php.php

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shared by M Jesús García San Martín on 31 Oct 11 - Cached
  • M Jesús García San Martín on 31 Oct 11
     
    Imagen ISO del DVD Malted 2010 para su descarga. Incluye la última versión de la herramienta, ya en formato plug-in, con sus dos editores y el navegador malted también, así como todas las nuevas unidades didácticas que hemos ido produciendo a lo largo de 2010 para inglés de primaria y francés de secundaria, además de los materiales de siempre. Todas las unidades didácticas son ejecutables directamente desde el DVD y también ofrece la posibilidad de instalar malted en local en Windows, así como las instrucciones y programas necesarios para su instalación en Linux.
Ed Webb

Peru's ambitious laptop program gets mixed grades - Yahoo! News - 0 views

news.yahoo.com/ts-mixed-grades-071038397.html

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shared by Ed Webb on 03 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • what we did was deliver the computers without preparing the teachers
  • the missteps may have actually widened the gap between children able to benefit from the computers and those ill-equipped to do so
  • Inter-American Development Bank researchers were less polite."There is little solid evidence regarding the effectiveness of this program," they said in a study sharply critical of the overall OLPC initiative that was based on a 15-month study at 319 schools in small, rural Peruvian communities that got laptops."The magical thinking that mere technology is enough to spur change, to improve learning, is what this study categorically disproves," co-author Eugenio Severin of Chile told The Associated Press
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  • OLPC laptops, which are rugged and energy efficient and run an open-source variant of the Linux operating system, are in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Mongolia and Haiti, and even in the United States and Australia. Uruguay, a compact South American nation of 3.5 million people, is the only country that has fully embraced the concept and given every elementary school child and teacher an XO laptop
  • no increased math or language skills, no improvement in classroom instruction quality, no boost in time spent on homework, no improvement in reading habits
  • On the positive side, the "dramatic increase in access to computers" accelerated by about six months students' abstract reasoning, verbal fluency and speed in processing information
  • "We knew from the start that it wouldn't be possible to improve the teachers," he said, citing a 2007 census of 180,000 Peruvian teachers that showed more than 90 percent lacked basic math skills while three in five could not read above sixth-grade level.
  • Each teacher was supposed to get 40 hours of OLPC training. That hardly helped in schools where teachers had never so much as booted up a computer. In Patzer's experience "most of them barely knew how to interact with the computers at all."
  • In the higher grades, Martinez said, children's use of the machines is mostly social
  • "For them, the laptop is more for playing than for learning,"
  • Negroponte thinks the main goal of technology educators should be simply getting computers into poor kids' hands.His proposal last year to parachute tablet computers from helicopters, limiting the involvement of adults and "educators," caused some colleagues to wince. But Negroponte is dead serious, and has begun a pilot project in two Ethiopian villages to test whether tablets alone, loaded with the right software, can teach children to read.
  • The OLPC team always considered Internet connectivity part of the recipe for success. They also insisted that each child be given a laptop and be permitted to take it home.Uruguay, a small, flat country with a far higher standard of living and ubiquitous Internet, has honored those requirementsPeru did not
  • Some schools didn't have enough electricity to power the machines.And then there was the Internet. Less than 1 percent of the schools studied had it.
yc c

Hot Potatoes Home Page - 0 views

hotpot.uvic.ca/index.htm

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shared by yc c on 13 Mar 09 - Cached
  • yc c on 13 Mar 09
     
    The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence. Check out the Hot Potatoes licensing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Website.
Jocelyn Chappell

Synergy - 0 views

synergy2.sourceforge.net

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shared by Jocelyn Chappell on 20 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Jocelyn Chappell on 20 Apr 08
     
    This sounds like I can sit at one computer in a room and control each of the others -- just by moving the mouse of the side of the screen in the direction of the next computer -- keyboard input to the computer with screen display
Nelly Cardinale

IntroToUnix - 2 views

www.devdaily.com/...IntroToUnix.shtml

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shared by Nelly Cardinale on 17 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Nelly Cardinale on 17 Feb 10
     
    Free tutorial provided by an educational institution on the subject of Unix. Also has a final exam at the end.
  • Nelly Cardinale on 17 Feb 10
     
    Free tutorial provided by an educational institution on the subject of Unix. Also has a final exam at the end.
Vicki Davis

TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP... - 1 views

www.truecrypt.org

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shared by Vicki Davis on 26 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 26 Apr 10
     
    Use this to create an encrypted drive for your financial records if you have them on your laptop! Remember to backup the folder as well! It is free. I would also recommend this for those who have private files on their computer like guidance counselors.
Ted Sakshaug

Chemistry of Paint - 13 views

www.angelfire.com/...chemistryofpaint

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 14 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 14 Mar 11
     
    Chemistry of paint
Ed Webb

Stories Matter - 0 views

www.stories-matter.com

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shared by Ed Webb on 03 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Stories Matter will have a second phase wherein independent academics, teachers, and other interested communities will be able to download the software and apply it to their own collections, or interact with already clipped interviews posted by the Life Stories CURA project. The goal is to make Stories Matter an accessible tool for oral historians from all walks of life, and to provide people with an alternative to transcription that will ensure researchers continue interacting with and learning from the interviews they conduct once the interview is completed.
  • Download the software The application runs with Adobe AIR 1.5.1, on either the Windows, Mac or Linux platform.
Vicki Davis

64 Things Every Geek Should Know - LaptopLogic.com - 1 views

laptoplogic.com/...-things-every-geek-should-know

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shared by Vicki Davis on 17 May 09 - No Cached
  • Identity theft groups warn about keyloggers and advocate checking out the keyboard yourself before continuing.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
       
      Often the keylogger is a program on the computer, so don't think just looking for the hardware will find it!
  • Tor is an onion-routing system which makes it 'impossible' for someone to find out who you actually are.
  • See this tutorial for info on how to bypass the password on the three major operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
       
      FYI - as a person who has had to do this on a Windows computer - this often doesn't work!
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  • Every geek should know how to recover the master book record.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
       
      I did this last week! It saved me a TON of time!
  • There are computer service centers that would be happy to extract the data for a (hefty) fee; a true geek would be the one working at center, not taking his or her drive there.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
       
      There are inexpensive programs that you can use to do this - it helped us with a personnel matter quite a few years back - I think every IT person should have such a program and every teacher should understand that it is possible for such a program to be used. I teach my students that everything ever saved on a hard drive can be retrieved - be careful.
  • Person to Person data sharing
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
       
      Uhm - that is peer to peer!
  • Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
     
    Great article with many things people should know.
  • Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
     
    Cool article that covers a lot of things that people should know - whether you mind being called a geek or not. Very interesting reading.
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