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Gary Edwards

Free desktop productivity tools that aren't OpenOffice - 0 views

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shared by Gary Edwards on 04 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Gary Edwards on 04 Oct 10
     
    Good discussion and review of office suites, desktop publishing tools, wordprocessors, time management, and drawing/illustration tools.  covers: AbiWord, Scribus, SeaMonkey, GIMP, Paint.net, InkScape, Dia, GTD-Free (Getting Things Done), and Task Coach.  +1 for InkScape Tagged PDF editing and Paint.net as a Adobe Illustrator replacement.
Gary Edwards

You Are (Probably) Wrong About You - 0 views

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  • Gary Edwards on 30 Jul 12
     
    When you fail to reach a goal - say, for instance, you give an important presentation and it doesn't go well - you become the detective (once again, largely unconsciously). You gather up the usual suspects to see who is responsible for your failure: lack of innate ability, lack of effort, poor preparation, using the wrong strategy, bad luck, etc. Of all of these possible culprits, it's lack of innate ability we most frequently hold responsible, like the much-maligned butler in an Agatha Christie novel. In Western countries - and nowhere more so than in the U.S. - innate ability is the go-to explanation for all of our successes and our failures. The problem is that the evidence - the kind gathered by scientists over the last thirty years of study of motivation and achievement - suggests that innate ability is rarely to blame for either succeeding or falling short. (If you've blamed your poor performances in the past on a lack of ability, don't feel bad. We've all done it. The butler seems guilty. Just please don't do it anymore.) If we are going to ever improve performance, we need to place blame where it belongs. We need solid evidence about where we went wrong. Unfortunately, that's the kind of evidence that usually doesn't make it to our consciousness on its own, making self-diagnosis practically impossible. We need help getting the right answers.
Paul Merrell

Official Google Blog: Alis volat propriis: Oregon's bringing Google Apps to classrooms ... - 0 views

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shared by Paul Merrell on 30 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Things have changed since I was in middle school of course, and there are people working hard to bring technology into classrooms to help students learn and teachers teach. Today Oregon is taking a huge step in that direction — they’re the first state to open up Google Apps for Education to public schools throughout the state.Starting today, the Oregon Department of Education will offer Google Apps to all the school districts in the state — helping teachers, staff and students use Gmail, Docs, Sites, Video, Groups and more within their elementary, middle and high schools. School funding has been hit hard over the past couple of years, and Oregon is no exception. This move is going to save the Department of Education $1.5 million per year — big bucks for a hurting budget.With Google Apps, students in Oregon can build websites or email teachers about a project. Their documents and email will live online in the cloud — so they’ll be able to work from a classroom or a computer lab, at home or at the city (or county) library. And instead of just grading a paper at the end of the process, Oregonian teachers can help students with their docs in real time, coaching them along the way. It’s critical that students learn how to use the kind of productivity technology they’ll need throughout their lives, and Oregon is helping students across the state do just that.
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