Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Smith-Corona Award Nominees

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...the electric typewriter award for the IT Director most determined to block anything useful. Here are the top 3 so far: 1. The IT Directo...
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Sunday, October 08, 2006

Using MySpace for course hosting

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Cheers to NC State University Professor Tim Hoban who, in the face of contrarian administrators, is supporting his "Social Movements fo...
Friday, September 22, 2006

URGENT! Wheel just invented!

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Oh...wait... that's already been done, hasn't it? I am in the middle of teaching my government-only "Online Trainer" cour...
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Learn to use what you have before buying something else...

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“In user testing, Microsoft found that nine out of every 10 features that customers wanted to see added to Office products were already in t...
Monday, September 04, 2006

FREE PowerPoint templates

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Check out Indezine for hundreds of beautiful, free PowerPoint templates, including many for health care, teaching, and computer-related top...
Sunday, September 03, 2006

Prices?

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Readers know I'm a proponent of the 'buy-what-you-need' approach; that is, rather than outsource whole projects, I advocate outs...
Saturday, August 12, 2006

Love the One You're With

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I've had lots of questions this past week about products -- most costing in the upper hundreds -- that don't do anything that can...
Thursday, August 10, 2006

Beware of "featuritis"

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I can't say it enough...before you buy anything, identify the problem you're trying to solve. AND be sure that you can't already...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

FREE "Learn Italian" Podcasts

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Basic lessons available to play online or to download . Add-ons are by subscription (still only a few dollars a month) but the basic lessons...
Saturday, July 29, 2006

FREE Whiteboards, VOIP, etc.

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Sourceforge is a repository with hundreds of open-source products. Click 'projects' for a searchable list of what's available.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Cool FREE Timer

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Check out this great timer! I use this in synchronous online sessions as well as F2F classroom events. It's available for free download...
Sunday, June 25, 2006

Online tutoring

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A comment from partner in crime Nanette Miner, who saw on a recent Today show "a man in India who is tutoring a 15 year old CA girl in ...
Saturday, June 24, 2006

Free Live-Online Classes!

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My fall schedule includes FREE synchronous sessions of "TrainerSmarts", "Speaking with Sizzle, Substance & Style", ...
Saturday, June 10, 2006

Palm Springs, CA, USA: June 11-14

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I'm headed to sunny (and hot!) California tomorrow morning for VNU's Training Director's Forum . Hope to see you there!
Saturday, May 27, 2006

WOW

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Just home from Ireland, thanks to the conference organizers of the the Irish Learning Technology Association, and saw this at an airport boo...
Friday, May 19, 2006

Location, location, location

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Am on the road a good deal the next few months so please do look me up if I'm in your neighborhood: Irish Educational Technology Users...
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

FREE file transfer

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E-mail attachments getting blocked? Check out YouSendIt for file transfer. Upload your file to the web, send an email to the intended recip...
Monday, April 03, 2006

The Right Technology for the Job

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I'm concerned about the oft-mentioned--and, in my opinion, false-- distinction between "classroom" and "e-learning"....
Friday, March 31, 2006

Do you PowWowNow?

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Powwownow provides FREE voice conferencing, shared presentation, and PDF documentation--you pay the phone charges.
Friday, March 03, 2006

Coming to Training 2006?

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I'll be in Orlando Sunday--Wednesday. Am presenting all day long Wednesday and have a book signing that morning as well. Please stop by...