Home office printing costs
HP claimed (and IDG agreed) that their OfficeJet 8500 printer would cost less to run than a small laser printer. Really? After twelve months, I can totally confirm: the actual cost of operating this...
View ArticleXMind v Inspiration
Today I trialled XMind 3.1 side-by-side with Inspiration 9. XMind Free advantages The free version is not time-bombed. (Contrast with the Inspiration trial version which is limited to 30 days.) Drill...
View ArticleTranscription Tools
At first it seemed sensible to transcribe interviews within NVivo. But I soon changed my mind...
View ArticleClassroom technology breakdown
In a traditional classroom in a fee-paying school, when a lesson is interrupted because the technology misbehaved, the teacher is expected to make a rapid judgement and decision. A rational protocol is...
View ArticleFacebook covers Google logo with Bing
Foursquare pinpoints you on a GoogleMap and posts it to Facebook. But Facebook brazenly replaces the Google logo on the map, in favour of its ally, Microsoft! In what copyright jurisdiction is that...
View ArticlePopulation Pyramids
Population Pyramids are still required in Stage 5 Geography. I was surprised to see students hand-drawing them despite being equipped with notebook computers. Is the labour and extra opportunities for...
View ArticleWorksheets become self-marking online
Before using power tools, school students are given safety guidelines and a quiz to check that they recall them. Some schools use specialised online quiz and document kits such as OnGuard. Other...
View ArticleThe function of a School IT Manager
Harwell Thrasher's Hierarchy of Business IT Needs has an intuitive resonance to it: it makes sense that some IT activities are necessary foundations for others. This model leads to insights about the...
View ArticleWhen it is hard to GoToMeeting
The GoToMeeting was dead. The teacher couldn’t even be heard. What went wrong? It could be a number of things. A computer participating in a webinar can easily become too busy to perform well. Some...
View ArticleEvidence-based practices in online learning
I’ve been reading Means, Toyama, Murphy, Bakia & Jones, 2010. Evaluation of Evidence-based practices in online learning: A Meta-analysis and review of online learning studies. US Department of...
View ArticleSharing a Learning Management System is complicated
Sharing a Learning Management System is complicated. Who owns the Intellectual Property?
View ArticleNo significant difference
In the last few years there has been a growing raft of experimental results that favour distance education and use of educational technology, for specific purposes in specific contexts, over...
View ArticleEdutech implementation as resituation
Changing your own practice is real work. Westberry (2015) unpacks reflections of 14 lecturers who switched to multi-site lecturing. Experiences and responses Some good teaching intentions were...
View ArticleZoom outriders
Students in the classroom look at their peers' work and body language. Zooming your talk to the class won't provide that. You need other ways to build social affirmation. Continue reading →
View ArticleWhy the Principal is not a Superuser
It's obvious to the data team, but can be perplexing to school executives, that the Head does not need "administrator" role in the School Information System. Continue reading →
View ArticleScam detector tuneup
Some scams are really hard to detect. Here are seven good guidelines that fail. Continue reading →
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