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Document Processing

Document manager (reference manager) I am an academic. That means, in part, that I read for a living. This is not the type of reading you do to put yourself to sleep, but the type of reading you do so you know how things are done or what is presently the best information in a [...]

Posted 10 April 2013 † grabe § ‡ Comments (0) °

Feedly as a replacement for Reader

One of the biggest tech stories of the week was Google announcement that it would shut down Reader. This service is used by many to organize their RSS feeds – the syndication that announces new content. It is possible you follow such feeds using another app, but it is likely that this app loads information [...]

Posted 17 March 2013 † grabe § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

WordPress Education Vertical

  WordPress is one of the most popular alternatives for blogging and web publishing. The software is free to those who want to install it on a server or available hosted by Automattic (the company responsible for WordPress). The software delivering the blog you are reading falls into the first category. WordPress is adapting its [...]

Posted 24 February 2013 † grabe § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

ISTE – The Outside Aisle

Cindy and I have an ISTE tradition. We select our favorite product from a vendor positioned on an outside aisle of the exhibition hall. These vendors have a smaller and less expensive booth and typically a very small number of products. You should be able to locate most of our previous posts by searching “outside [...]

Posted 28 June 2012 † grabe § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Docs Research Tool

Google has added an interesting new feature to Google Docs. Under the Tools heading you will find “Research“. Select text and then select the research tool. A pane will open with the results from a search on the selected text. You can preview individual hits from the search. You can then use the tool to [...]

Posted 17 May 2012 † grabe § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

On the way to Mendeley?

I obviously pick post titles based on what pops into my head. This post likely has a limited audience. However, for those of us who do a certain kind of work, there is a constant quest to find a more efficient approach and I thought my experiences may be of interest to this limited audience. [...]

Posted 03 April 2012 † grabe § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

iPad iPhoto Journals

The issue of whether the iPad is a meaningful production device is important to many educators. The issue comes up when making the decision whether to invest school money in traditional computers or iPads (and similar devices). Traditional computers, laptops or netbooks, are versatile and the capacity to write and create multimedia as a learning [...]

Posted 16 March 2012 † grabe § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,