Tag Archives: open source

Open Source or Proprietary LMS? Your Answer, My Friend, Is Floating In the Cloud

Posted on November 8, 2011 by tcnet

A colleague recently asked me if I could explain the distinction between open source and proprietary learning management systems, especially as it might affect a K-12 school looking at the best kind of LMS to implement today.  She wanted to … Continue reading →

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Take and Annotate Screenshots with Open Source Tools: ZScreen and Paint.net

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Ted Curran

Online teachers and instructional designers need access to good tools for capturing screenshots and annotating them. These tools are invaluable for giving step-by-step computer instructions to students and faculty, and can really help you communicate information visually. If you’re new … Continue reading →

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Just an Idea: Google Human– Google Earth for the Human Body

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Ted Curran

Update! What began as a pie-in-the-sky idea was actually put into production as Google Body Browser, a 3D WebGL powered app that showed the major features of the anatomy in a browser. As Google has focused their energy around their … Continue reading →

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Your computer has that "not so fresh" feeling? Get AppFresh or TechTracker to update all your apps!

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Ted Curran

AppFresh is a great app for the Mac which scans through your whole computer, checking to see if all of your apps are up to date. It checks them against the iUseThis database to let you know how many other … Continue reading →

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Broke free of my iPhone/AT&T Bondage!: Road Test for the Palm Pre on Sprint

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Ted Curran

Image by zoovroo via Flickr Since its debut in 2007, I’ve been a fanatical iPhone jailbreaker and general enthusiast of the device. As more and more iPhones have begun bogging down the 3G network in the Bay Area, Apple/AT&T seem … Continue reading →

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Over-Extending your Firefox with Extensions? Use Different Firefox-Powered Browsers for Different Tasks!

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Ted Curran

Everyone loves Firefox because there are so many great user-created Add-Ons that make your web browser into much, much more. Add-ons allow you to customize your browser to make tasks easier. This extra performance comes at a slight cost; the … Continue reading →

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Bridge the Screen Divide: YuuGuu, Jaadu, and Chicken of the VNC

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Ted Curran

Image via Wikipedia Has this ever happened to you? <<<<<<<RING! RING!>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Me: Hello? Dad: Hi Ted. There’s a problem with the computer. All my programs disappeared. Me: What do you mean they disappeared? Dad: I don’t know– they’re just gone. … Continue reading →

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Google Picasa- A Lovable Alternative to iPhoto

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Ted Curran

Image via CrunchBase I really like a lot of things about Apple‘s iPhoto– it makes it easy to rip, organize, and upload your pictures. However, I HATE how it tries to keep me from knowing where my photo files are, … Continue reading →

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Have students RECORD key assignments as MP3s so you can listen, not read.

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Ted Curran

As an English teacher, I always felt like I was drowning in a sea of papers. I needed to get the students to do high quality thinking, and the only way I knew how to evaluate that thinking was through … Continue reading →

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Work at a school that can't afford fancy software? GO OPEN SOURCE!

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Ted Curran

I first became interested in open source software while working at an underfunded little charter startup in the central valley of California. We had an aging computer lab that didn’t have any modern software because the school couldn’t afford to … Continue reading →

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