Archive for May, 2007

1-to-1 Lashback

Alan November recently posted on the Edustat Blog about laptop program lashback. It’s an interesting article (with many comments that follow). Among several interesting points, he argues that labeling a program a “laptop program” dooms it to inevitable failure, because it puts the focus on the technology instead of the learning. The article includes a [...]

Microsoft has released a beta version of a conversion utility program to convert Office Open XML files created with Office 2007 (for Windows) to files that MS Office 2004 or Office X on a Macintosh can read. It seems there are many shortcomings. For examples, charts and graphs are converted to graphics, and tables background [...]