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Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint

Be sure to read Guy Kawasaki's blog entry where he takes the latest shot at PowerPoint with his "10/20/30 Rule". He says, "a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points. Read More
posted Tuesday, January 03, 2006 6:03 PM by Mr.McBain | 0 Comments 
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Technology Haiku

Here's an idea: write a haiku to describe some aspect of technology in schools. Haiku, of course, is a 17-syllable poem, arranged in three lines of five, seven and five syllables. Let me give it a try: Internet filterProtecting me from evilWhat is your Read More
posted Monday, November 07, 2005 9:12 PM by Mr.McBain | 3 Comments 
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Distance Learning Carts

  Wow! Two months since last post! I've been deblogified, but now it's time to reblogify. But what to write about?     Chip is on the verge of putting distance learning carts in each school. The equipment has arrived, but we are waiting Read More
posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:47 AM by Mr.McBain | 0 Comments 
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The Ideal Classroom

(I've got just 6 minutes to blog...) It seems like this time of year brings a "mad-dash" mind set as we rush towards the opening of the school year. On my end, however, we are rushing to prepare a school that opens a year from now. Builders are working Read More
posted Monday, August 22, 2005 2:00 PM by Mr.McBain | 0 Comments 
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Director of Technology!

Hey, that's me, I'm the new director of technology for Chippewa Valley Schools. It's pretty scary! One of the first things we did was to okay a plan to obtain portable distance learning carts for each school. This will greatly improve our ablility to Read More
posted Tuesday, August 09, 2005 4:47 PM by Mr.McBain | 3 Comments 
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Losing to Dope Wars

There was an interesting post today on Techdirt: Symantec Sues Adware Company For The Right To Call It Adware ( http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050608/0133232_F.shtml). The gist of it IMHO is that spyware companies are suing anti-spyware companies Read More
posted Wednesday, June 08, 2005 9:38 AM by Mr.McBain | 0 Comments 
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Mach 3 Razor

Mach 3 Razors -Can you imagine that marketing meeting? Boss: OK, people, we've got to come up with a new idea for a razor. So far we've had 2 blades, 3 blades, 4 blades; and 5 blades; and we've got comfort strips up and down. We've had racing stripes Read More
posted Friday, May 27, 2005 5:11 PM by Mr.McBain | 1 Comments 
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Does Blogging Effect Your Writing Style?

From http://brandautopsy.typepad.com/brandautopsy/ Talk about how your writing style has evolved from PERMISSION MARKETING to LIARS.SETH: Blogging has really messed me up. If it’s more than four paragraphs, I think it’s too long. As a result, I have Read More
posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005 3:28 PM by Mr.McBain | 1 Comments 
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Reach Out and Touch Community

In our district we are considering a number of new technologies that seem to have a common thread. See if you can guess what it is: Follett Destiny moves library management and catalog to a web-based system accessible from anywhere on the Internet. Read More
posted Friday, May 13, 2005 11:45 AM by Mr.McBain | 0 Comments 
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The New Digital Divide - Seth Godin's Blog

I just found Seth Godin's blog and read his timely and thought-provoking entry at http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/05/the_new_digital.html. (Don't stop reading after the word "skills", scroll down to get the whole thing.) Seth is a facinating Read More
posted Monday, May 09, 2005 4:54 PM by Mr.McBain | 0 Comments 
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