Microsoft has just about cornered the market when it comes to word processing software. Word is used by more people than any other software by a wide margin. However, Apple has been offering its own word processor for the Mac for a long time. Apple’s Pages is only available for Macs, Windows users don’t have [...]
SLATES “Students today can’t prepare bark to calculate their problems. They depend on their slates, which are more expensive. What will they do when the slate is dropped and it breaks? They will not be able to write.” ~Teachers Conference, 1703 PAPER “Students today depend upon paper too much. They don’t know how to write [...]
Yes, there was a time that we didn’t have PowerPoint when we presented. We didn’t have computers either. We used a slide projector. The most commonly used slide projector was from Kodak. In the olden days all we had were pictures. We took them with our 35mm cameras and Kodachrome film, Ektachrome if you had [...]
In the good old days… Facebook was when I went outside and met my friends in the street. Texting meant sending a postcard. YouTube was looking at a huge TV with a tiny screen. Email was sitting down with a fountain pen to write a letter. Google was a library card. Computers were a paper [...]
Web Site Checklist by Joel Heffner [The Web Site Checklist was originally written in 1996. It still applies today.] 1. Address: Is the address of my site easy to remember and get to? 2. Audience: Who will want to view my site? 3. Background: Is my background interesting? Does it distract attention from the images [...]
Many folks on Twitter have the idea that having followers mean that you have a following. The two are different. Some people on Twitter will follow just about anyone who follows them. Many will look for large numbers of people to follow in hopes that they will reciprocate. Either way…that’s not creating a following. All [...]
It’s official. The world has changed. iPads are now a reality. First, no…I did not run out and get one the first day. I’m still waiting to actually get my hands on one. The Good iPads offer a chance to help many people take advantage of technology. Many people who are someone reluctant to explore [...]