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Going with Outlook/Exchange

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

After a long process, my school has decided to move to Microsoft Outlook/Exchange 2007.   I realize that this is bucking the trend to move towards outsourced email with Google’s Apps for Schools and Microsoft Live, but these systems did not meet our requirements.  I use Gmail for my personal email and am very happy with [...]

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Tags: Collaboration · Communication · Microsoft · On My Mind · School 2.0 · Technical

Wordpress 2.0.1

February 11th, 2006 · No Comments

Hey — That was easy — just upgraded to Wordpress 2.0.1 — followed the directions and it worked.  Heading out to check out the snow with Evan:->

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Tags: Technical

Audacity and Wordpress for Learning Labs

January 19th, 2006 · No Comments

So — I just finished my first video stream tutorial.  I created it with Windows Media Encoder and posted it on our Windows Media Streaming Server.  Then I linked to it using our Wordpress MU Blog server (we needed to tweak the MU server a bit to link to mms:// servers — here’s the hack [...]

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Tags: Education · Technical

Tablets vs. Smartboards

December 29th, 2005 · No Comments

I’m using a IBM X41 tablet right now — I really like it, but tend to use the keyboard more than the writing functions.  What I like best about this guy is the fingerprint logon — a wonderful security feature! I have also installed 22 smartboards at my school, so I have a bit [...]

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Tags: Technical