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Thirty years of tech, where are we now?
This January marks the 30 year anniversary of the Apple //e and the Apple Lisa. While the Apple //e had profound effects on the computer world throughout the 80s, I am in awe of how much the Apple Lisa foretold of the computing world. No matter what your thoughts are of Steve Jobs, the man…
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Thursday 3s for Jan. 24, 2013: Student tech skills, tablets vs. IWBs, and menu calendar
5 technology skills every student needs before they leave high school Jeremy Kaiser writes about 5 technology skills every student needs before they leave high school. Technology moves fast, but even this article which is almost 2 years old holds relevance today. What is missing is the mobile component, which in 2011 wouldn’t be as…
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Your inbox is not an organizational tool
Email is the technology that everyone loves to hate. They use it daily, and most hate every minute of it. I believe part of the problem is the difficulty in coming up with a workflow that allows you to efficiently use email. And by efficiently use email, I mean that whether you are on your…
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Use a GMail filter to organize emails from students
GMail has a somewhat powerful filtering mechanism that you can apply to incoming email. Unfortunately, I say somewhat since there really isn’t an easy way to select student email and take it out of your inbox. It won’t match on part of an address, so you can’t just search for an email address that starts…
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Has Apple lost it?
Apple announced the iPhone 5 today and updates to the iPod line. Most of the announcements were lackluster at best, but the event laid the groundwork for the rumored iPad mini event in October, which could be even more disastrous than the iPhone 5 event today. The iPhone 5 is a nice upgrade, thinner and…
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Impressions of the Nexus 7 Tablet
For those that know me, ordering a Google Nexus 7 Tablet when it was released isn’t much of a surprise. I did wait a day though. 🙂 The Nexus 7 Tablet joins the stable of portable devices at home, which include a couple of iPad 1s, and iPad 3, a couple of cheap Android tablets…
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Something about iPads
[![][]][] I’ve been thinking a lot lately about iPads, Chromebooks, Android Tablets, and Linux laptops. In planning the next 5 years of technology in my school district, I know it will be mobile, but what device should I be thinking about? And then I noticed something very curious about the iPad and how people interact…
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First impressions of the new iPad (from an iPad 1 user)
[![][]][] I’ve had the new iPad for 24 hours, and it has already ruined me for all other displays. I noticed it yesterday, as I was working on my 24″ 1920×1080 monitor at school. It just looks bad after using the new iPad. As an upgrade to the iPad 1, the new iPad is a…
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Beyond Paperless
[][] Slides: Beyond Paperless – eTech 2012(pdf) Audio: Beyond Paperless – eTech 2012 []: http://ryancollins.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2012-02-13-at-10.19.33.jpg
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