Category Archives: mac

More Free Open Source Goodness: Celtx Media Pre-Production Suite

Life is physically and mentally too cramped for me to write the posts I’ve been planning about Pink’s Whole New Mind and Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody.  I’m tutoring three days a week, finishing up my change of visa status (I never thought I’d need a Green Card, but there it is), and moving into our […]

OS X Leopard Airport Scanning Driving You Crazy? A Possible Fix

[Update: See comments for more news on this.]
Is anybody else experiencing Airport Wireless “airport scanning” weirdness in OS X Leopard?  Since upgrading to Leopard, my wireless disconnects constantly to scan for other networks - when the network I’m on works fine. My Airport signal is also lower since the upgrade.  I know it’s a problem […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

Basketball without Borders Slam Dunk: Networked Learning Class Update and Video

It’s been about six weeks since my last update on the ten-week-old Networked Learning class I created with the help of so many of you in the initial Open Thread post and Twitter. Students are still grading themselves and justifying it - and showing the same fondness for grade inflation as so many […]