Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Friday, October 5th, 2007
We’ve been having a lot of fun playing with a 3 year-old and some not-3-year-old-oriented applications. If you have a 3 year-old handy and would like to try it:
- Chess (standard in the Mac’s Applications folder). Spin the board in 3D. Push pieces to infinity. Get it to speak its move. Speak your move to it. Watch it play itself. Show a hint. Doesn’t let you turn on ‘permanent’ show hints though, which might be nice.
- Stellarium - Accelerate time, zoom out so you can see all of North, South, East and West simultaneously. Turn off the ground. Watch the days pass.
- Celestia - hit ‘d’ to get the demo tour of the Universe.
- AppleWorks - Open a wordprocessing document and the clip-art Library.Let the child drag things from the clip art library into the wordprocessing document.
- NeoOffice - Open a wordprocessing document, up the font size and let them type away to their heart’s content
- Photo Booth - take some photos with them, offer to print them out to give to people
Posted in Education, Games, Human interface design, Mac, Programming, Software | 1 Comment »
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
The Australian Government’s free copy of the Mac compatible “Safe eyes” filter is available here.
Of course the best way to safeguard your kids is to keep the computer in the living room and supervise their browsing. That way you’re on hand to answer any questions they have about anything they might see (including when they subvert the net nanny filter).
Posted in Education, Mac, Network, Security, Software | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Highlights of todays announcements
- Sexier iMacs with sexier keyboards (minus the Apple logo on the Command key)
- Airport Extreme ports bumped to 1 Gigabit
- Mac Mini bumped to Core 2 Duo and 1Gb memory (still no 802.11n or better graphics chip)
- iLife ‘08 (interestingly iMovie now requires a G5 or better, so no PowerBooks!)
- iWork ‘08 (now with “Numbers” spreadsheet)
- Xserves get a build-to-order hardware RAID controller for US$999
Interestingly both Numbers and Pages mention that they’ll import AppleWorks documents, and have a US$249 site licence deal for K-12 schools (not Higher Ed).
Posted in Airport and WiFi, Apple, Education, Hardware, Mac, Mac OS X Server, Network, Software | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
“Contribute, Communicate, Collaborate” is the theme of the Apple University Consortium Conference for 2007, being held from Sunday 23 to Wednesday 26th of September 2007 on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
Most AUC affiliated universities should have some funding allocations to send people, check out your representative here.
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