A couple of weeks ago, I missed out on my early morning run. I decided to instead go for a run in the afternoon, taking my usual companions of iPhone, arm strap for the phone (with headphones of course), and our Siberian Husky. Already I was experiencing what I believe is amazing technology; listening to a live feed of music from across the country (Triple J), tracking my coordinates, calories, pace, [...]
The Adobe Creative Suite is by far the professional choice for all things digital-media-editing-print. In my experience for classroom use, we typically tap into no more than 5% of the capability of these programs, which sometimes can make it hard to justify spending the thousands of dollars on the entire Adobe suite. Granted, it's worth giving students the experience on industry standard platforms, and depending on what you are trying to achieve and [...]
Have you discovered shared Photo Streams? An absolutely brilliant concept, and very private. Perfect for the classroom, and a quick way to get photos out (with notifications) to your students. Find out more here.
If your anything like me, and store almost everything in Dropbox, the 'Save to iCloud' feature on the Mac can become a little pesky - especially when it continues to default to this option. Solution? Just go into your System Preferences, and click on 'iCloud'. Here, you can turn off Documents and Data which disables this option when prompted to save in certain Apple apps.
Data Visualisation at it's best. Here is a great little project to follow, with their first product called 'Tree of Life'. This website allows you to explore the tree of life in a completely new way: it's like a map, everything is on one page, all you have to do is zoom in and out. Enjoy!
