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Looking for a Word Processor? Zaine Ridling at Donation Coder has written a thorough review, and by thorough I mean over 15,000 words, covering various word processors. Not only does he review major and minor desktop word processors, but he also has a rundown of online ones. With each Word Processor he presents [...]

I finished reading David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous a couple of weeks ago. Not an amazing book, but worth the time. His thesis is pretty straight forward, but he does have many examples and cases to back up his analysis, many of which are outside of my field of knowledge so they were interesting [...]

Increasingly I find students success, and ability to be media literate, is tied to their ability to use the internet. The problem with this is that reading through a browser posses a different set of problems then reading in print. I imagine something like this occurred in the technological change from scrolls to [...]

Supposing you have time, here are some things of note.
Find a tutor: Lifehacker post on a service that helps you find a tutor, or if you are a tutor find a student. As of now the service only works Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Just as instructive though is the discussion about the [...]

I was talking with a faculty member the other day who was complaining about being sent a .pdf, as he was unable to “edit” it in any way, he wanted the more friendly Microsoft Word document. (If you don’t know what a .pdf is click here, most of the “professional” documents you get are in [...]

I am working on a couple of longer things for the near future (tools for syllabus, some Devon notes, and writing a dissertation), but in the short span here are some useful links from around the web.
Two links on the Apple Mailing list. The first is a short review of information management software. The [...]

I received the following email from an Academhack reader.
Here’s my situation: I work in education policy, which means I spend a lot of time reading long-ish reports and writing syntheses, papers, policy briefings, etc. What I often find is that Report A will contain potentially useful info about a variety of topics (we’ll call those [...]

Weblogged points to this site which mobilizes Google Earth to track places in relation to literary works. Want to show your students the places in the Odyssey? Use this. (They have more than just the Odyssey, but I always had trouble keeping track of those place names so this seems like the most useful [...]

As if the .doc problem wasn’t bad enough, now we have to worry about .docx.
So as many are probably aware, Microsoft released its new operating system, and along with that release comes an updated version of Microsoft Office. The problem here is that the new Microsoft Office saves files in a different format than [...]

Okay, finally, without too much further ado, and two plane rides of writing later, I am going to outline all the steps I go through to “build” a presentation. Let me say a few things up front though. First, this again is not an expert thing, this is simply what I have developed [...]