Archive for the ‘Educational’ Category

Feb 22, 2010

Another reason to use DropBox

Today I had a student call me on my google voice number and tell me that his laptop would not start up with video. Nothing on the screen. He even tried to hook it to a TV and there was nothing coming out. Video card seemed to be toast.
No big deal?
Normally this would be [...]

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Feb 8, 2010

Prezi = PowerPoint redone.

A cool tool I started to use in late January is Prezi..

Just a PPT replacement, but think about the uses. Record yourself presenting in front of class then share the prezi and the video. Two for one. You can drill as deep as you want, so share concepts and as you go deeper perhaps [...]

Jan 20, 2010

DBAN – selling your computer or HDD. Read this

So I sell a fair share of my old computers and I have computers from two of my jobs that I regularly turn in for upgrades. When I do this I like to make sure my data is no longer on the machine.
It isn’t that I am doing anything wrong, it is just that I [...]

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Jan 4, 2010

FTP not working through Windows Firewall (on my server)

I have a virtual dedicated server from godaddy. This is basically a virtual machine running on a shared host. So far it has been awesome. Works really well if I could get my forums to stop taking up too much memory
I wanted to open up FTP for a project some of my former [...]

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Dec 7, 2009

Why I like Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is a pretty cool information engine created by the guy who wrote Mathmatica. Mathmatica is an application used by anyone doing any sort of mathmatics computations or calculations. You can express complex calculations using the application. He made lots of money selling the app.
So if you type in Jason you will get information [...]

Nov 24, 2009

Back on Board

Getting back on track. Jason has been away from a while and he explains what he means to get back on track and working on the site again.

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Mar 5, 2009

Working with Git and VS.NET 2008

In the WEB 460 class I am teaching at DeVry we are changing the rules a bit. We are working on a collaborative ecommerce site and in doing so we needed to have some sort of central repository. So we went with Git. Well Git has no central repo, so how does that work? Really [...]

Aug 27, 2008

Taking a Final – some thoughts

I am sitting in my Keller class final (I am the Instructor) and I had some thoughts about how I took a final when I was a student. Here it is. Originally this was an email to my students.
As you all sit and take the final a few thoughts occurred to me that I thought [...]

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Aug 19, 2008

WhiteBoard Sharing

I felt I needed an app to do whiteboard sharing. This seemed like an easy thing to find, but it took a few days of talking about it before I found one I like:
http://vyew.com/site/
It offers desktop sharing, whiteboarding, teleconferencing – who needs that when you have Skype?
Anyway – I added this post more for [...]

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