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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Google Doc’s PDF to Editable Text OCR
Yes, this is one of those huge things for educators. Ever find a .pdf document you wanted to edit, but did not either want to recreate the document or could not recreate it? Well, Google Docs now allows you to upload any document and its OCR (optical character recognition) will turn the image into editable [...]
ISTE 2010
This week, in Denver, the main national technology in education conference occurs, ISTE. Renamed from NECC, this conference brings together about 20,000 educators and administrators for a few days worth of sessions on everything ed tech. I attended NECC a few years ago in San Antonio and was pleased to see an Open Source thread. [...]
Posted in hardware, open source, OSS Applications
Tagged education, gimp, open source, schools
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Microsoft’s Entry into the Student Response System Market
Microsoft week, I guess, on the K-12 Open Source Classroom blog… Apparently Microsoft feels like stirring up a hornet’s nest with their latest news of a ‘no-cost alternative’ to the clickers, or student response systems prevalent in today’s K-12 classroom. All the major companies provide their own, including SMART Response from SMART, ActivExpression (I think!) from Promethean, [...]
Microsoft Beginning to Sweat Over Google Docs
Seems the boys in Redmond noticed all the K-20 institutions switching to Google Apps for Education. Just in our State alone, NC State switched, the NC Department of Public Instruction, and about 20 school systems, including ours. Yes, cost definitely exists as a large factor, but Google Apps provides a good product as well. While [...]
Posted in open source, OSS Applications
Tagged android, browser, education, google, internet, microsoft, Open Office, open source, schools
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Old School Gaming!
Not much open sourcey-ness to this, but so cool for us Children of the 80s…a Super Mario Crossover! You can play the original Super Mario Bros. with a twist–as a character from another 80s original NES character. There is Link from Zelda, MegaMan, Simon from the Castlevania games, the dude from Contra, and then Mario. [...]