Archive for February, 2007
How to Make a Lego USB Drive!
Instructables.com offers step-by-step illustrated instructions on how to replace the boring casing of your USB memory stick with a lego! This is a fun, easy project to customize your technology.
Click here for details.
Tags: cool, project, students, usb drives
Posted: February 28th, 2007 under Odds and Ends, Faculty, Students.
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Think First, Email Later
I can’t say that I was surprised when I read Daniel’ Goleman’s Flame First, Think Later:New Clues to Email Misbehavior article in the Times (Free registration required.) I’ve been guilty of writing things in an email or an IM that I would not have said face to face. It turns out that our brains […]
Posted: February 22nd, 2007 under Odds and Ends.
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Blow the Dust Out of the Connector
This customer service gem comes from Raymond Chen’s Old New Thing. You might consider this approach when working with a teacher, administrator or peer.
“Sometimes you’re on the phone with somebody and you suspect that the problem is something as simple as forgetting to plug it in, or that the cable was plugged […]
Posted: February 21st, 2007 under Odds and Ends.
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Register now: 2007 Educators Conference on April 25th!
It’s that time of year again! Click here to register for the 2007 MOUSE Squad Educators Conference.
With a keynote address by MOUSE board member Ejovi Nuwere, CEO of Gather.At and author of “Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace“.
Educators will participate in hands-on technology […]
Posted: February 20th, 2007 under Opportunities, Events, Faculty, Ed/Tech.
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So What’s With Vista Anyway?
Formerly codenamed ‘Longhorn’, Vista is Microsft’s latest version of the most widely used OS, Windows. Windows Vista promises hundreds of improvements over Windows XP including Window’s Aero (the new look and feel of Windows) and tighter security measures for the Operating System.
Though Vista is already available for consumption, common software sense recommends waiting until most […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2007 under Odds and Ends.
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