For all you folks looking for an alternative to .ppt, try a blog. For a bonus use Classcaster to add audio.
LawLibTech: PowerPoint Alternatives – From Browsers to Blogs, Part II
StarOffice 8 Released
StarOffice 8 offers enhanced Office compatibility – Computerworld
Sun Microsystems Inc. today released a new version of StarOffice designed to better address the software’s compatibility with Microsoft Office, one of the chief complaints among users of Sun’s office productivity suite.
iPod + Phone? Maybe Not
Interesting comment. At today’s Duke podcasting symposium someone asked an Apple engineer about Apple’s plans for video and he said that the laptop was the perfect video iPod and video on phones didn’t really work.
I don’t know about you, but I’m sensing a trend.
BetaNews | iPod Chief Not Excited About iTunes Phone
In an interview with the German daily Berliner Zeitung on Monday, Apple vice president and iPod division head Jon Rubenstein expressed his feelings on the convergence of music devices and cell phones, saying the devices are best left separate.
30th Anniversary Re-Issue of Born to Run
Sounds sweet:)
RollingStone.com: Bruce Springsteen : Springsteen “Born” Again : News
Bruce Springsteen’s seminal 1975 album, Born to Run, will be reissued in a thirtieth anniversary edition on November 15th. The three-disc set features the remastered album, a live DVD, an additional DVD of new interviews with Springsteen collaborators and a forty-eight-page booklet of previously unpublished photographs.
No Classcasting from Duke…
Well, cell reception in the Fitzpatrick Center @ Duke is non-existant, so I can’t call Classcaster. At lunch I’ll step outside and give it a try.
Duke Podcasting Symposium
Online at the Duke podcasting symposium. I’ve got a hardwired connection, wireless is available but I prefer all the bandwidth I can find. Here are a few links to get things started:
Intros are starting…
Lectures, Podcasts and iTunes
Brief article with a number of links to various podcasting efforts that include the use of iTunes.
Intel, Digium Team Up For Commercial Asterisk Support
By including support for Intel telephony products Digium will be abel to provide a version of Asterisk that supports more advanced digital telephony features.
Intel Gets Inside Asterisk with New Drivers
Digium and Intel have partnered in an effort that will see the professional version of Asterisk, Asterisk Business Edition, run on Intel’s building blocks and be supported on Intel’s Dialogic and NetStructure products.
Open Source Clickers?
Some good comments about clickers and educational feedback. It is not clear just what the person looking for the OS clicker is really looking for here.
Slashdot | Building an Open Source “Clicker”?
“The problem is this: a clicker system requires…clickers. What I need are remote controls that have a minimum of 6 buttons (for users to select options with). The sticking point comes when a button is pressed — the remote must send the option choice, as well as a unique ID specific to the remote, so the clicker software can distinguish between different students. “
Clients pressure bar to innovate
Great article with good links to articles about tech innovation, or the lack thereof, in legal practice. I think the implications for legal education are worth noting. As clients expect more use of technology in practice, firms will pressure law schools for more tech savvy graduates. And the 100+ year old style of teaching law in America ain’t going to cut it.
excited utterances
The message is clear. Innovate or die.
So where does innovation in legal education come from? Well, all modesty aside, CALI is probably one of the best sources for innovation in legal education in America. Over the past 12 months we have released quite a few products and services to our members that, if applied, have the capacity to significantly alter the way legal education works. Adoption has been slow at best, but we keep pushing. I think that eventually pressure from students and employers will force law schools to get more involved in using technology in education and exposing students to more of the technology they will see in practice.