Category Archives: edtech

Garr Reynolds has a nice followup to the debate on PowerPoint, complete with slides. If you use PowerPoint/Keynote and are not a reader of the Presentation Zen blog, you should check it out.

T.H.E. Journal has an article discussing the legal issues involved in using biometrics in a public school. If you aren’t familiar with these devices, they are used to authenticate a person using a personal attribute that cannot be stolen or … Continue reading →

John has a post about grammar and spelling that hits home. I have never been a great speller. Technologies like Word’s auto-correction feature and ieSpell’s web form spell checker have made things much better. I still put in “you” when … Continue reading →

I saw this for the first time over the weekend (I don’t watch much TV). I had two thoughts. 1 – Didn’t Apple start the whole “cancel or allow” thing? OS X has always required major changes in the OS … Continue reading →

After yesterday’s post about PowerPoint, my wife and I have had a lengthy discussion about using PowerPoint in class. She teaches education classes at Ohio State so we are always stealing each other’s material. She is going to use my … Continue reading →