Author Archives: Alvin Trusty

MIT OpenCourseWare – now for high school

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

I talked about MIT’s OpenCourseWare project last year in my eTech presentation.  This is a great resource if you are interesting in the content of a college course.  MIT has placed many (I have heard people say “all”) courses online and … Continue reading →

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Free – SnagIt and Camtasia Studio

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

TechSmith is offering two popular titles as free downloads.  Both SnagIt (screen capture) and Camtasia Studio (screencast capture) are utilities I have used for years.  Now the company is making last year’s versions available for free. These free versions do … Continue reading →

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Wii Big Brain Academy

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

I have been a fan of the Brain Age and Big Brain Academy games on the Nintendo DS.  So I wasn’t surprised when someone in my family gave us the Wii version of Big Brain as a Christmas gift. If … Continue reading →

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Vista – What is it good for?

Posted on November 26, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

I am still have problems with Vista.  If I weren’t in the middle of a semester, I would dump it tomorrow, but it will have to wait until Christmas. I started making a list of things in Vista that I … Continue reading →

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Wish I could have seen this one live

Posted on November 25, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

That UStream.TV is a bit slow.  At least on a weekend.  I have been struggling through a conference wrap-up with Will Richardson and Gary Stager. This is the first conference that has permitted two well known people with differing opinions … Continue reading →

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