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Put a countdown timer on a presentation slide
[][] This past week as I was working on a presentation, I had a slide where I asked the participants to discuss among themselves. I wanted to set a time limit, but I didn’t want to have to switch out of Keynote, I wanted it on the slide. It took me a couple of minutes,…
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A Kindle, iPad, and iPod Touch walk into a classroom – #neotech2011
Here are the slides with notes: Handout from my presentation. For those following along with Twitter here are the results of the poll: [][] I really enjoyed the conference, and want to thank everyone that was involved at putting it on. It was very well run (although I didn’t win the MacBook Air door prize……
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A Kindle, iPad, and iPod Touch walk into a classroom – #oetc11
The slides are available on Google Docs.
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21st Century Learning – Return of the Jedi #oetc11
The slides are available on Google Docs, and I’ve started to put my links under http://www.delicious.com/mr.rcollins/partvi. Have you succumbed to the dark side? Do you use technology for good or evil?
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Interview with Kent State journalism students at #oetc11
I was interviewed by Amanda Murrow at the Ohio eTech Technology Conference: Star Wars for Teaching from David Smeltzer on Vimeo.
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My presentations for the eTech Ohio Educational Technology Conference 2011 #oetc11
I’ll be presenting twice at the conference this year. On Monday, I’ll be presenting “21st Century Schools: Part VI, Return of the Jedi” from 3:45 – 4:30 pm in Room: D230 – 232. This session will be on motivating students and teachers, while trying not to stray to the “dark side” of technology. The twitter…
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Distraction free writing with JDarkroom
[][] While there are several full screen text editing apps, I’ve settled on JDarkroom. Written in Java, JDarkroom is a distraction free text editor, taking over your entire screen so you can concentrate on writing and not worry about new email or tweets. It is patterned after Darkroom for Windows and Writeroom for Mac. I…
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Checking out Android
As I prepare for my eTech 2011 presentation, An iPad, Kindle, and iPod Touch walked into a classroom…, I decided that it would be beneficial to plan on questions about Android, Android Tablets, and how they may work in schools. The Consumer Electronics Show was held this past week, and during it a bevy of…
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FIrst impressions of the MacBook Air 11″
Since Steve Jobs blessed my MacBook Air and I received it two day early, I’ve had almost a week to investigate the 11″ MacBook Air. I opted to max it out, so it has 4GB of RAM, 128GB Solid State Drive (SSD) and the 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. The educational price was \$1,329,…