Mac Users: Have a Few Gigs of HD on Me (and Monolingual)

June 18, 2008 – 5:35 pm

Just spreading the love to my fellow Mac users by sharing Monolingual, a free open source program that saved me 4Gb of hard drive by removing the hundreds of languages localized on all my software, and by stripping the PowerPC files from my Intel MacBook.  (If you have Adobe Creative Suite, you’ll easily save 2 [...]

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An Old Prophecy Confirmed? On the Uses and Abuses of Laptop Learning

June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm

In my third month of writing here about 21st century education, way back in March 2007, I put the pom-poms down, stopped cheerleading, and started thinking about all the ways schools can kill the learning that is possible when students have a simple laptop and a blog. This snippet from a post from back [...]

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The Most Important Edu Website I Know: Education for Well-Being Strikes Again

June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm

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Education for Well-Being gets my vote as one of the most important educational sites on the web, period. Bill Farren makes the videos he posts there, writes lucid and relevant discussions of them, and links to supplementary resources for possible classroom use. His written posts are as well-crafted as [...]

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