Let’s say you’re teaching a web design or digital photography lesson. You’ve made all your plans, you’re ready to go, but you have one problem – you didn’t sign up early enough to use the computer lab that has Adobe Photoshop installed on the computers. There’s still a lab available, but those computers are so …
Category Archives: Technology
Wikipedia
You have a report to write on the Vietnam War. No problem, you did your work. You found your references – all six of them. Wait … six? You thought you only needed five! Well you’d better think fast, your report’s due tomorrow morning and it’s already midnight. What do you do? Well you could …
Podcasting
For those of you that didn’t know, a “Podcast” is halfway between a blog and a radio program. In fact, most podcasters also maintain blogs that show similar content. They are easy to record and upload, where a special RSS aggregator then downloads the recording to your computer, iPod, or any device that can play …
RSS Feeds
Yesterday I mentioned RSS feeds, so today I thought I would describe them in more detail. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It’s sort of like html code, but different in some key ways. Mainly, with RSS feeds the content comes to you rather than you going to the content. If a web site has …
Furl
What do you do when you find a website you like? Why, bookmark it, of course! But wait, what if you’re in a lab and there’s no guarantee you’ll be on the same computer again? Or perhaps your a teacher using a shared computer in the teacher’s lounge? Or what if you want to visit …
Lissa Explains it All
Your first web site is a step into the brave beautiful world of self publishing, where you can share your ideas, your masterpieces, and, dare I say it, your very soul with the world. Unfortunately, a lot of the so-called web page builders provided by the free hosting services out there leave a lot to …
JavaSketchpad Perspective Applet
Not much to say this time. All I’ve got is this nifty java applet that demonstrates 2 point perspective. You can move the vanishing points and change the proportions of the rectangular prism in order to see how perspective influences the angles of the box.
Leoville.com
You’re in a jam – your computer doesn’t work. It could be a virus, but then again maybe it’s something you accidentally configured wrong. Could it be that your software’s incompatible? Wait … is smoke supposed to come out of THERE?! Oh, if only your user manual didn’t read like it was written in a …