I recently upgraded my old Windows XP machines to Windows 8 Pro. I was talking about this with a few teachers in the staff room, and they didn’t know that, right now, Microsoft has a special upgrade price. Windows 8 Pro costs $69.99 to buy a DVD. You can download the Windows 8 Pro upgrade […]
Backing up Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 User Profile
There is nothing scarier than opening up Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 to get an error message saying there’s something wrong with your user profile. (Well, I suppose your computer not booting up is pretty scary too. Or, when your hard drive crashes and you lose all of your family photos, that sucks.) If you’ve been […]
Can your students guess your password?
Teachers live in a digital world. We use computers and email systems to store and communicate student information to parents, teachers, and other colleagues: marks, assessment information, tests, special education data, etc. Could one of your students guess your password? Obviously, this isn’t a problem if you teach grade 1, but if you teach in […]
CrashPlan for teachers
Someone once told me, there are three things that are inevitable in life: death, taxes, and hard drive failure. If you’re like most of us, backing up your hard drive is a chore that you never quite get around to. Until disaster strikes. We live in a digital world. Our kids have been photographed since […]
iPhone 5 cases: OtterBox Defender or Lifeproof Fre?
I recently got the iPhone 5. Two words: love it. In fact, I don’t know how I lived without it. I used to have an old school hand-me-down iPhone from my brother. I use the Pocket Informant iPad app to try to manage my calendar and to do list. I use pocket informant and ToodleDo […]