I will be traveling with the France trip from 2/25 to 3/10. You can keep up with the trip online at www.Nice2012.com. While I am away, Karen Pontti will be handling STJLabs password resets, and Merle Haskins will be taking care of Portal password resets. Thank you Karen and Merle! The second technology in the [...]
Since we acquired the Kindles in October, they’ve been pretty popular. Overdrive is also a great service even without a Kindle. You don’t even need a library Kindle to use Overdrive. You can use your own personal Kindle or other electronic devices. So far we’ve had 52 Kindle checkouts and 147 Overdrive checkouts. If anyone [...]
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We’ve made more of an effort to use the portal this semester, and that includes the dropbox feature. The kids have been happy with uploading their assignments and not having to figure out printing. It’s also been awesome for when kids lose their USBs or don’t have a saved copy, as I can download the [...]
I have been using Dropbox for the past 2 years. It’s an utterly fantastic system that syncs a folder on your desktop with a private online file locker. You can sync that one folder across many computers. When you change a file on one computer, it changes it across all others. This means I can [...]
The 2012 Horizon Report has just been released. You can download the full report right here. Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2012 are: Time [...]
Here are the slides from the presentation I gave during today’s faculty meeting.
Lifehacker has an excellent post up outlining how popular online file conversion site Zamzar has added convert-by-email functionality. Simply put, all you need to do is send an email to format@zamzar.com where format is the format you want to convert to. In a few minutes you’ll receive and email back with a link to download your [...]
A digital version of the Advisor Feedback Form is online right here: http://bit.ly/stja-advisor-feedback-spring2012 In order to use the form, someone needs to: 1) Load that link 2) Fill it out in their web browser 3) Hit submit All of the submitted data will go into a private spreadsheet. Individual advisory feedback will then be emailed [...]
The winter tablet program winner is Mike Donovan for his proposal to use a tablet during science explorations outside the classroom. His complete proposal is below the fold.