Month June 2009

Do you want us to jing it?

The English language continues to evolve — jing is now a noun and a verb as far as my students are concerned.Jing is the free (or lost cost pro version) program for the Mac and the PC that quickly allows…

Paperless?

California’s recent announcement that they are moving to e-textbooks will mean a lot more resources for 1:1 schools. Right now, using a tablet computer means either having a CD copy of the textbook (now a departmental requirement for our texts…

Microsoft’s Live Mesh

One of the most successful tools I used this past academic year is Microsoft’s Live Mesh ( ), a cloud-based file-synchronization and desktop-replicator. I had signed up for it when it was in Beta and have never had a…