Academic Musings & Tech for Learning

FREE Quick Reference guides from CustomGuide are available for many versions of MS Office software, Windows OS, using the MAC, and some Adobe software products (up to CS3). These make a great hand-out for students and workshop participants.

CustomGuide – Free Computer Training Quick References, Cheat Sheets.

The company allows you to

• Distribute them at your organization.
• Forward them to users with support issues.
• Post them on your organization’s Website.

I first saw these on CTAP, The California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) another site with great resources for using technology in the classroom.

Disney Offers Up a Clean, White Space – Gadgetwise Blog – NYTimes.com

Like Times Square, Disney’s home page is a crowded, noisy place. Starting next week (Monday [Sep 7]aound 1 p.m., to be specific) there will be something radically different — a completely silent, blank canvas surrounded by creativity tools.

Create on Disney.com is a suite of four open-ended activities that pushes the envelope for Web-delivered creativity tools.

According to the post there will be 4 activities Digital Painter, Anipods to design animated creatures, Comic Creater and PhotoMashups where you can use other Disney celebrity pictures to make posters, and such.

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In today’s NYTimes there’s good advice for new PC owners

Tips to Keep a New PC Free of Malicious Software – NYTimes.com.

School starts soon, and many people are getting spanking-new computers. Ah, the joy of a new and more powerful toy — and a clean slate.

A new PC, whether you know it or not, may well have freed you from many malicious programs that steal credit card numbers and other valuable information or otherwise obstruct your safe and private use of the Internet. Now is the time — while you’re getting everything set up just the way you like it — to take some steps to keep your new machine clean and free of malware. Here is what you need to do before you do anything else.