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Edit PDFs with OpenOffice
Image: Hybrid butterflies – http://tinyurl.com/65zl99 What fantastic news! OpenOffice will support read/write PDF files! Hybrid PDFs provide the best of both worlds: consistent display anywhere via its PDF component, and editability via its ODF component. “Most applications (such as Adobe Acrobat Reader) ignore the ODF bits and treat the whole hybrid file as a normal [...]
Free Screen Capture Tools
Every few months, the conversation starts up…what are some free screen capture tools district personnel can use to create tutorials. You know, I always thought that my team of folks would jump at this opportunity…unfortunately, they don’t share my enthusiasm. I know *I* would have jumped at the opportunity to record tutorials. Now, we just [...]
NECC 2008 Expectations
As I mentioned in the previous blog post, I’m trying to round-up folks to attend NECC 2008 from my District. The main challenge is that this is the mandated vacation week for district staff…so, these folks are giving up their only summer vacation to attend NECC 2008. It seems like a great trade-off to me–although [...]
NECC 2008 Sessions
Over the last few days, I’ve been encouraging folks from my District to attend NECC 2008 Conference. The only challenge is that funding wasn’t made available until after many folks "tore down" their computers for summer. We’re closing school in my District, so we’re trying to get folks in to attend. That aside, I thought [...]
Feature – Malinda McCormick
Our resident Second Life guest blogger, is Malinda McCormick…featured in ISTE’s Learning and Leading with Technology magazine for June/July 2008: Scott Merrick was also featured. Be sure to read some of Malinda’s guest blog entries! News z: mguhlin@gmail.com (Miguel Guhlin – www.mguhlin.net)