Leopard for Educators Redux

Guys and Gals, this is official! Leopard launches 26 Oct! For those who are interested, we can have an UNOFFICIAL meetup on Saturday for a simple review. As mentioned below. we will explore features, enhancements and education related stuff. There’s also a software I have been working on for screen recordings; works only in Leopard, and I will need beta testers

Please note that this is an UNOFFICIAL meetup. Not endorsed by my employers in any way.

Tentative date and location: Saturday 27 Oct at 5pm, Indochine Siem Reap @ Holland Village. I am buying drinks Please email me off-blog if you are attending.

As this is our own little thing, resources are limited, but I will bring along 2 demo machines for you guys to hands-on

Leopard for Educators

For Singapore educators on this site:

1 week after the official announcement, shall we meetup for an educators’ review of Leopard? We can do this at Apple or Ishop (to up you guys) from about 3pm to 5pm on a weekday. Agenda will be on:

1. General new features of Leopard
2. Education-specific features and how to use them
3. New 3rd party applications for education on Leopard, including one I just wrote

if interested, please email me off-blog with your name, school, subject/s taught and I will bug you when Leopard comes a-calling!

Comic Life no longer bundled

Important message - Comic Life is no longer bundled with new machines, effective about a month ago. Education pricing is available at the plasq website. Am looking for alternatives,will keep you guys updated.

Look what A dug up!

The olde ACOT research report…

Apple Classrooms Of Tomorrow

Cautious about YouTube?

Enter TeacherTube:

Education-safe videos, peer reviewed, linkable, free. I Like!!!

Go to TeacherTube

BBC Motion Gallery

Need a place to find high quality video? One of our latest eureka’s is BBC’s Motion Gallery widget for Mac OS X Tiger and above. A comprehensive, if not legendary, historic record with over 700000 hours of content. Caveat: Do check with the website to see if the clips you need are royalty-free (many are). YMMV.

From BBC Motion Ga…

Mac Shortcuts

I keep getting asked for notes on shortcuts whenever I do Mac OS Beginner Courses. I keep saying, great way to make use of that lazy arm by your side and rather than reach out to use the mouse, why not use simple shortcuts? I actually challenged someone a couple of years back and it was quite amusing to see the person using the mouse when a neutral party gave the task to do (like copy, cut, create new folder, duplicate, save, quit, move the window behind the active window you are using, etc) So anyway, click here for all the shortcuts you can use.

If you need to change some of them on your Mac, click SYSTEM PREFERENCES > KEYBOARD & MOUSE > KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS. Have fun!

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