Earlier this week, I (somehow) ran across a podcast that covers the world of technology in an education setting. Casting from the Server Room has been a very informative as well as entertaining listen this week. The current episode is #59, so I’m obviously a late-comer. No issue for me, though — I’m downloading the past episodes and soaking up them up like a roll of Bounty!
If you’re in the world of education and have a hand or an interest in technology, let me highly encourage you to check it out.You don’t have to actually own an iPod in order to listen to a podcast. All your PC will need is a media player of nearly any flavor and a set of speakers.
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“…imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
I don’t know if it’s true or not. Nonetheless, TeacherTube is an educational themed imitation of YouTube. Were you to spend a couple of minutes browsing around, you could find some precious video gems, such as:
I’m convinced that, with a little time and more participation, this site can become a very useful tool for increasing the use of technology in educational settings. I just hope that the participation increases in a short amount of time.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to go make a rap video about how to add a stick of RAM to a PC.
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Almost every PC here at school runs on Windows XP (SP 2) and is loaded with Microsoft Office 2003. In fact, we just got a new shipment of PCs in this past month and they all came pre-loaded with Office 2K3. However, with Office 2007 having recently been released, I thought I would install it on my computer to see how it fared and see if I wanted to install it lab-wide.
Well, I don’t.
I think I’m going to stick with what we’ve got for now.
It’s unreal the amount of resources the new version requires. I’ve had 2003 running from the moment it was released. I’ve never once had much of a problem out of any of the programs within the suite. At the most, the only problem I’d ever had was Outlook 2003 running a little behind if I had a lot going on. Otherwise, things went off without a hitch. This is not the case with Office 2007!
It takes well over a minute for Word or Excel to start up. Outlook 2007 is a horse of a different color. For a program with the purpose of increasing productivity, it prevents me from any increased productivity due to the amount of time I spend waiting for it to start-up, open the compose message window, or to shut down.
My friend Chris hasn’t had a lot of positive experience with this latest version either.
Why, MS, why?
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Welcome to The Lion’s Lab. I am “Mr.” Andy. I’ve been a computer lab technician for 4 years now.
What is a computer lab technician, exactly?
I’m glad you asked. 
It’s my job to take care of just about every computer here at our school, which is a lot since we have Kindergarten through Fifth Grade. In the computer lab, we have about 25 computers. It’s my job to take care of the computers, the software that’s on the computers, and a lot of other things — most of which are related to the computers in some way.
Why blog?
I started this blog to share a lot of ideas or tips and solutions that I’ve learned over the years. I also thought that this would be a good way to meet other that worked with education and/or technology.
(Please be sure to read the README.txt information.)
Here goes nothing…
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