A. Kipta's Blog 07/28/2011 (p.m.)

• Mixbook

  "Mixbook is the easy and fun way to make completely customizable photo books, cards, and calendars on the web – for free. With Mixbook, you aren’t limited to static pre-designed templates – our powerful design software gives you the freedom to lay out and design your creations to your heart’s content. We’ve dedicated ourselves to bringing you the best experience in creating photo products so that you can make keepsakes that truly reflect your vision. With Mixbook, you can truly Make It Yours™. "

  tags: slideshow digital_storytelling

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/27/2011 (p.m.)

• USA Lanyards Wholesale Store - ID Name Badge Holder Lanyard Supplies

  As a leading manufacturer of identification supplies, we strive to provide the best service with quality products. UMX carries a wide range of plain & custom printed lanyards, name badge holders, plastic id cards, nametags, badge clips, retractable badge reels, and lanyard making hardware supplies.

  tags: @shopping edc

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/26/2011 (a.m.)

• Town Turns to iPads in Cost-Cutting Move

  While Apple started selling iPads to the public only 15 months ago, the 1.5-pound tablet computers seem well on their way toward ubiquity. This year, Alaska Airlines began issuing them to pilots to replace the 25 pounds of paper flight manuals they were required to carry on flights. Now, Cornelius, N.C., with a population of about 25,000, has stopped printing meeting agenda packages for town commissioners and has given them iPads instead. Anthony Roberts, the town manager (with Bence Hoyle, the police chief), discusses.

  tags: ipad roi

• Using Interfolio to Manage Your Professional Documents - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  My reason for writing this post is two-fold: first, to introduce Interfolio to potential job-seekers otherwise unaware of its presence, and second, to give a little free publicity to a group that really gets it when it comes to the academic job market and its intricacies (and idiosyncrasies). Also, they have top-notch customer service; there are real people behind those e-mail addresses, the Facebook page, and the Twitter account. In fact, I signed up for Interfolio approximately one second after I saw a fellow grad student cry out in frustration on Twitter and have an Interfolio representative come to their rescue, after business hours (and I think on a Saturday, too), to make sure that their document made it to its destination on time. Interfolio offers two separate services: a Portfolio service that allows you to manage an online identity complete with publicly-accessible documents, and a Dossier service that allows you to: Request, receive, and manage confidential letters of recommendation; Store professional documents; Create custom packages of documents in response to those 5, 10, or 100 job ads all requiring different material; Deliver your documents electronically or in print; Track the progress of document preparation and delivery.

  tags: document management jobs portfolios

• Five Things That Helped Me Survive the Job Market

  A conversation on Twitter earlier this week reminded me that the first round of the Job Information List (JIL) for MLA fields will be published soon, and with it comes the beginning of the job market season for those of us in language and literature fields. Other disciplines, undoubtedly, will not be far behind (and some may well have started their searches already). Bearing in mind the incredible stress and anxiety that can dismantle even the coolest of job-seeking cucumbers, I would like to offer you five things that helped me survive the job market.

  tags: jobs

• British Research Libraries Say No to 'Big Deal' Serials Packages

  As some U.S. research libraries back away from so-called Big Deals with journal publishers, a major British library group has also taken a stand against high serials prices. Late last year, Research Libraries UK announced that its members would not sign any more large deals with two of the biggest journal publishers, Elsevier and Wiley, unless they agreed to significant reductions in what those deals cost. The association represents 30 of Britain’s major research libraries, including those of the Universities of Cambridge, of Edinburgh, of Oxford, of Warwick, and of Kings College London, as well as the British Library and the national libraries of Scotland and Wales. The group’s members have collective deals with publishers that are negotiated on their behalf by JISC Collections.

  tags: libraries jisc

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/25/2011 (a.m.)

• Microtraining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  The Microtraining method is an approach aimed at supporting informal learning processes in organizations and companies. Learning in this sense means that an active process of knowledge creation is taking place within social interactions, but outside of formal learning environments or training facilities. This process can be facilitated by well-designed and structured systems and by supporting ways of communication and collaboration, like the Microtraining method does. A Microtraining arrangement comprises a time span of 15–20 minutes for each learning session, which can activate and maintain learning processes for a longer period if bundled into series. A Microtraining session can be held face-to-face, online or embedded in an e-learning scenario.

  tags: microtraining training informal_learning

• Mobile Learning « Research on Technologies for Engineering Education

  Technology is becoming increasingly important in education and is becoming part of the day-to-day learning experience. During the last part of the 20th century, technologies related to communications and the Internet led to a revolution in some fields, such as the arrival of e-learning platforms. More recently, over the past decade, the Web has evolved from Web 1.0, where most users held the passive role of mere readers, towards Web 2.0, where users have become active players, publishing their own content and interacting in social networks. However, besides the Social Web, many other new technologies are emerging as candidates that may have a deep impact on education, including games, augmented reality, new human-computer interfaces, and ubiquitous and mobile technologies [1]. As an example, the social web fosters student-teacher and student-student communication anytime and anywhere, not only in the classroom [2]. Collaborative environments are created where students participate in learning experiences within a social community [3].

  tags: mlearning mobile mobile_learning

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/23/2011 (a.m.)

• Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff – TechLearning.com

  The Google+ Hangouts are an easy and great way to connect face-to-face with up to ten people. The other social media platforms don’t have this integrated functionality. Even when Facebook gets Skype, it’s not as good and doesn’t allow for ten people at once.

  tags: google social_networking

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/20/2011 (p.m.)

• Learning Objectives (Teaching and Learning Laboratory @ MIT)

  It may be best to start with what learning objectives aren’t:  They aren’t simply a list of the topics to be covered in the course.  Certainly, there will be a body of knowledge that students should know and understand by the time the course is complete.  But if the goals for what students should achieve stops there, there may be many missed opportunities for providing them with a more productive learning experience. A learning objective should describe what students should know or be able to do at the end of the course that they couldn’t do before.  Learning objectives should be about student performance.  Good learning objectives shouldn’t be too abstract (“the students will understand what good literature is”); too narrow (“the students will know what a ground is”); or be restricted to lower-level cognitive skills (“the students will be able to name the countries in Africa.”). Each individual learning objective should support the overarching goal of the course, that is, the thread that unites all the topics that will be covered and all the skills students should have mastered by the end of the semester.  Best practice dictates that learning objectives be kept to no more than half a dozen.

  tags: learning_objectives instructional_design

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/18/2011 (a.m.)

• Physics Teaching Resources

  This page provides a map to our online teaching resources for advanced laboratories at Haverford College Physics. We have three labs that effectively fall in this category.  Most unusally, our sophomore-level labs cover much of the material usually taught in Jr. lab.  Our majors then take a semester of upper-level junior or senior level advanded lab.  The sophomore labs have standard writeups (see below), while our advanced electronics and computer instrumentation lab is taught out of prerelease copies of the new version of Art of Electronics Lab Manual (courtesy of Tom Hayes, Harvard University), and our advanced lab course per se is project based and students do not have writeups to work off of.  Feel free to contact us with any questions. Suzannne Amador Kane. I also maintain a website with more information about medical physics-related labs.

  tags: physics

• Lesson Plans | EDSITEment

  Explore our library of humanities lesson plans by subject, theme, and grade level. Find Art & Culture lessons on anthropology, art history, folklore, mythology, religion, and more World Language lessons on languages and the cultures of which they are a part; History & Social Studies  lessons on American (including our popular AP U.S. History index) and World History, civics, government and society; and Literature & Language Arts lessons on great writing and great literary works throughout the ages.

  tags: humanities

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/16/2011 (p.m.)

• Historypin

  Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history.Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories. Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world. Historypin has been developed by the not-for-profit company We Are What We Do, in partnership with Google.

  tags: history maps photos collaboration

• Socrative | Student response system | Engage audiences

  Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets. Our apps are super simple and take seconds to load and run. Teachers control the questions and games on their laptop, while students respond and interact through their smartphones/laptops. Run it as an app or on any web browser.

  tags: smartphone feedback app

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/16/2011 (a.m.)

• Wakerupper - The Web's Easiest Telephone Reminder

  "Wakerupper is the web's easiest telephone reminder tool. Schedule reminder calls on the web. It couldn't be simpler."

  tags: reminder

• How to Put the Rigor in Project-Based Learning | Edutopia

  "It took some convincing. At first blush, Eric White -- social studies teacher at Whitfield Career Academy in northwest Georgia and the unofficial evangelist of project-based learning in the Whitfield County School District -- wasn't sold on project-based learning. He had heard the stories about PBL being "warm, fuzzy, snuggly learning in which Johnny glues some Wikipedia information to a poster and gets a grade." But visits to High Tech High and an in-depth look into the rigorous approach to PBL there turned him into a die-hard proponent and highly successful practitioner. "

  tags: project-based learning pbl

• Ten Takeaway Tips for Replicating Project-Based Learning | Edutopia

  "Five middle schools and one high school in the Whitfield County, Georgia school district are in their second year of a transition to project-based learning. Their model is High Tech High, a San Diego charter school renowned for its hands-on student projects that have real-world impact. Whitfield educators have taken big risks, tried things that failed, and then improved their work based on those mistakes. They're still learning. Yet they've also succeeded in making a huge transition in a short time. The words they use for what it's like to see their students so thoroughly engaged include exciting, amazing, and fun."

  tags: project-based learning pbl

• Here’s Why You Need an E-Learning Portfolio » The Rapid eLearning Blog

  A few weeks ago I announced a job opening. I got about 1000 inquiries and ended up looking at over 200 portfolios. I could have looked at more but I got a lot of emails from people who didn’t have portfolios. They tended to fall into one of two camps. They either didn’t have a portfolio or the projects they worked on were proprietary so they couldn’t share them. I know that many of you are in the same boat. And based on the tons of emails I get about finding work in this industry, I’d like to share some thoughts about why you need a portfolio and how it can help you get better at elearning.

  tags: e-portfolios

• Technology: Teacher Enhancement, NOT Replacement - Coach G's Teaching Tips - Education Week Teacher

  Web 2.0 applications. Mobile learning. Digital portfolios. Flipped classrooms. Just a few of many topics I learned more about at the recent International Society for Technology in Education Conference (ISTE), and plan to tweet/blog about in the coming weeks. But what stood out to me at ISTE even more than all the great ideas for integrating technology were all the reminders that while technology can enhance teaching, it can't replace teachers.

  tags: educational_technology

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/15/2011 (p.m.)

• Research | Project Based Learning | BIE

  "The BIE research library provides access to PBL-related studies and summaries of research that has been conducted. We have collected a series of research summaries, full papers, and presentation materials. These provide evidence for PBL effectiveness and provide knowledge of effective PBL practices."

  tags: project-based learning pbl research

• Project-Based Learning | Edutopia

  "Project-based learning is a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explore real-world problems and challenges. With this type of active and engaged learning, students are inspired to obtain a deeper knowledge of the subjects they're studying."

  tags: project-based learning pbl

• Automatoon- Easy Animation For The Web!

  "Automatoon is completely web based and free. There's no fussy authoring software to install (or pay for!) and you can effortlessly share your animations online. You can also easily export your animations and embed them in your own websites, all for free! (Some premium features cost extra.) Automatoon is the easiest animation tool ever created. It is built using a new technology called CBT or "Composition by Tool". CBT is an algorithm that changes how the data behind an animation is structured, greatly reducing the effort required to create it. Just watch the video below and you'll agree! Automatoon is powerful. Automatoon has many advanced animation tools built in, including skeletal animation, inverse kinematics, automatic tweening, morphing, and fades. More importantly, in Automatoon you can actually figure out how to use these tools without spending hours with a manual- CBT makes them completely intuitive. Automatoon is pure HTML5. Since no Flash is used, your animations will play just fine on iPhones, iPads, Android devices, and all common web browsers. (details) You can play your animations with a simple, open source javascript file. This file is small and easily hackable to create customized or interactive animations."

  tags: animation html5

• Debunking Five Myths About Project-Based Learning | Edutopia

  "Many teachers and administrators -- not to mention the general public -- might have the wrong impression of PBL. Maybe they have stereotypical views of what a "project" is, or they've seen poor examples of it in the past. Or they can't imagine how it could fit in today's landscape of standards and testing ("Oh yeah, we did that in the 90's, but things were different then.") Here are some common misconceptions and how you could respond with a "fact check" if you're trying to explain or defend PBL. "

  tags: project-based learning pbl myths

• Animaps - Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free!

  "Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time. When you send your Animap to friends it appears like a video - they can play, pause, slow and speed up the action!"

  tags: google_apps mapping timeline

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/15/2011 (a.m.)

• Learning with 'e's: Digital age learning

  "In my Learning is learning post yesterday, I started a debate about andragogy and pedagogy. I held the position that the theory of andragogy (Malcolm Knowles) adds very little to our understanding of learning. In some ways, I argued, andragogy theory seems outmoded in the light of recent rapid developments in new teaching methods, learning resources and digital media. Building on this position, I would like to examine two further concepts - namely heutagogy (Stewart Hase) and paragogy (Corneli and Danoff) - which may offer more appropriate ways of framing learning in the digital age. I would like to acknowledge Martin King, who set my thought processes going down this road when he commented on the 'Learning is learning' post. Although the two terms may be unfamiliar to some, most teachers will recognise how they actually work in authentic learning contexts. Heutagogy is a grand way of saying 'self directed or self determined learning'. Paragogy is another way of describing peer to peer learning, where students support each other's learning on an equal basis. Both are highly applicable when we consider the advance of learning technologies and the deep pervasion of social media into many learning spaces, formal and informal."

  tags: learning heutagogy paragogy connectivism

• Learning with 'e's: Learning is learning

  "I got embroiled in a Twitter discussion today with Mark Childs and Fred Garnett on whether the word andragogy is actually helpful to our understanding of learning. I'm not convinced. As ever, I like to promote argument, so here on this blog, I offer you my own views on what is quite an old debate. For the uninitiated, Andragogy (from the Greek Andros, meaning man) was a term made popular in the education world by Malcolm Knowles. It refers to learning strategies and experiences that are for adults rather than children. Knowles had made the distinction between children's learning and adult learning on the basis of adult motivation for learning being different from that of children. Pedagogy, another term used widely in education, derives from the time of the Roman slaves, known as pedagogs, who were tasked to either train their masters' children, or in many cases, to 'lead them to education'. Pedagogy is sometimes erroneously applied only to children's education, but is best applied to all forms of teacher directed learning. The main problem with Knowles's concept of andragogy is that it is intended to be different to pedagogy, which implies that adults learn differently to children. But is there any evidence for this? How does Knowles differentiate between adult and child learning?"

  tags: learning andragogy pedagogy

• Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff - TechLearning.com

  "Did you ever feel frustrated that in school you are supposed to spend all this time studying, taking tests, completing worksheets and handing in reports with no audience beyond the teacher and after years of that all your left with is a pile of tests and papers nobody cares about? School shouldn’t be preparing you for more school. Should be preparing students for the world, but unfortunately, the thing that is most important often falls through the cracks and is replaced by more and more testing and measuring. If you’ve decided to opt out of school and opt into the real world, you’ll have time to begin preparing your ePortfolio where you can share with everyone how great you are!"

  tags: e-portfolios

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/14/2011 (p.m.)

• The 7 Golden Rules of Using Technology in Schools | MindShift

  "Sometimes teachers and administrators need a kick in the pants to see what they perceive as problems re-framed in a different way. Adam S. Bellow, author of The Tech Commandments, and founder of eduTecher, spoke to a roomful of receptive teachers at the recent ISTE 2011 conference, and demonstrated some of the ironies and contradictions the education system is mired in. And he had some advice."

  tags: teaching educational_technology

• 28 Creative Ideas for Teaching with Twitter | MindShift

  "Enterprising educators are using Twitter in creative ways, to engage students inside and outside of class, to stay on top of education news, and keep in touch with peers and students. A recent post by Best Online Colleges enumerates 28 ways to use Twitter in class. They’ve asked me to repost, and I’m happy to share it."

  tags: teaching twitter

• QR Code Periodic Table with Symbols | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

  "Our QR code periodic table with symbols added (thanks to Aaron Litoff who added the symbols for us). I prefer the "lucky dip" aspect of no symbols, but this is very useful too."

  tags: periodic_table flickr qrcode

• 60 in 60 from ISTE 11 - Symbaloo

  "About this webmix : Most of the sites from the 60 in 60 session at ISTE 11. These are educational sites to try and integrate into your classroom."

  tags: educational sites resources

• Quo Vadis, LMS? Trends, Predictions, Commentary -- Campus Technology

  "The LMS market is in flux. According to a 2010 survey conducted by the Campus Computing Project, Blackboard's dominance of the higher education market declined from 71 percent in 2006 to 57 percent in 2010. Open source alternatives Moodle and Sakai have continued to make inroads, as has Desire2Learn--together they now control over 30 percent of the market. The entry of Instructure, whose Canvas LMS recently scooped up the business of the Utah Education Network, provides an additional plot twist. And hanging over it all is the imminent migration of hundreds of legacy Blackboard clients to new systems as their existing platforms are retired. Often overlooked in the numbers game, though, are more fundamental--even philosophical--questions about the evolving role of the LMS and its ability to meet the needs of higher education today. If the debate of recent years has been between open source and proprietary systems, the focus is gradually shifting to how all of these systems will tackle the thorny issues of informal learning, social networking, assessment, and a mobile learning environment."

  tags: lms trends

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/14/2011 (a.m.)

• Smartphone is the first step to escape PC dependency - Fred Cavazza - Welcome to the 21st Century - Forbes

  Mobile internet has been hot for more than 10 years in asia and scandinavia, but the iPhone started a revolution. The real smartphone revolution was not about technology, it was about unlimited data plan (content and services accessible 24*7*365) and an integrated distribution model (iTunes). The iPhone showed content providers, software makers, and telcos what role a tiny device can play in consumers’ daily usage. A smartphone is much more than a phone, it is the link to tens of millions of users’ digital life. Thus, mobile devices shipment is expected to override PCs shipment in the current year.

  tags: smartphone

• Free Forum Hosting - Lefora.com

  Express yourself - In full color or full motion video. Members can post and play videos in the forum. Upload photos or link to photos on other sites. Rich Text Editor - What You See Is What You Get. Lots of storage - 2GB included for free, upgrade for more.

  tags: forums

• Scholarship Applicants, Use Social Media to Your Advantage - The Scholarship Coach (usnews.com)

  According to a report released by the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) in 2009, 26 percent of colleges go online to research candidates for "special programs or scholarships." A 2008 Kaplan survey of 320 admissions officers from the top 500 schools (as compiled from U.S.News & World Report's Ultimate College Directory and Barron's Profiles of American Colleges) reported that one in 10 checks applicants' online profiles before making a decision about their admission—and more than one third shared that what they found out there didn't make them feel better about the students they were researching.

  tags: social_media scholarships

• Jennifer's language page

  At this site you can learn how to say greetings and several other words and phrases in hundreds of different languages. My goal is to include every language, so that people will be able to say at least a few words to anyone they meet, anywhere in the world. Ethnologue lists 6,909 languages spoken in the world. Approximately 1,650 of these languages are included on this website (about 24% of the world's languages).

  tags: languages

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/13/2011 (p.m.)

• EduTech Wiki

  EduTechWiki is about Educational Technology (instructional technology) and related fields. It is hosted by TECFA - an educational technology research and teaching unit at University of Geneva.
  It is a resource kit for educational technology teaching and research, e.g. a note taking tool for researchers; a literature review tool or a writing-to-learn environment for students. It also includes some (technical) tutorials that may be used in classes around the world or for self-learning.
  Many articles also can be useful to teachers, instructional designers and e-learning consultants. Read more about our objectives.

  tags: educational_technology wiki literature_review

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/13/2011 (a.m.)

• RadioPics Database - Main

  A 7.6 Gigabyte Collection of pictures & information on Scanners, SW Receivers, Transceivers, Accessories other Radio related Items. There are over 7000 Items Including Over 5320 Radios & over 13,500 Pictures in the Database.

  tags: electronics manuals database

• Military Standards MIL-STD, Military specifications handbooks

  EverySpec.com provides free access to over 35,000 Military, DoD, Federal, NASA, DOE, and Government specifications, standards, handbooks, and publications. Finding Specs just got Easier. Our online collection includes standardization documents with the designations of MIL, MIL-STD, MIL-PRF, MIL-DTL, FED, CID, JANS, MS, AND, USAF, DID, CID, UCF, and FIPS, including their Amendments, Notices, and Supplements.

  tags: technical_writing documentation standards reference

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/12/2011 (a.m.)

• Skype in the classroom | Skype Education

  Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It’s a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. This is a global initiative that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms.

  tags: skype education

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/11/2011 (p.m.)

• You may experience performance problems when you are working with items in a large .pst file or in a large .ost file in Outlook 2007

  Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 momentarily stops responding during typical operations. This includes when you read e-mail messages, move e-mail messages, or delete e-mail messages. These symptoms are most noticeable during mail delivery or during synchronization. These symptoms become more pronounced as store size increases. They are more likely to occur when the size of the .pst file or the size of the .ost file approaches 2 gigabytes (GB). Additionally, they are more pronounced in a very large .pst file or in a very large .ost file that is 4 GB or larger.

  tags: microsoft_office outlook troubleshooting

• Outlook PST Split Software to Split PST File by Date/Year/Size – Split Magic

  PCVITA Split Magic is the name for easily splitting large sized PST files into smaller parts. The process to split PST file has this new and easy name, which is our Split PST tool. PCVITA, an old and well-established name in this domain, has brought out this highly user-friendly MS Outlook PST splitter tool to split large PST file into smaller parts or smaller sized PST files. Using this PST Split tool, you can split PST file without any data loss.

  tags: outlook troubleshooting

• PST Viewer - Free tool to open and view content of PST files without Ms Outlook

  There can be times when you urgently need to open the PST file but MS Outlook is not installed on your computer. For example, you have received the PST file from one of your senior colleague, which contains some important emails and contacts that can be helpful in your current project and future as well. However, the problem with you is that MS Outlook is not installed (or you have some older version of MS Outlook installed) on your computer due to which you cannot open the PST file. Kernel for Outlook PST Viewer takes you out from that critical situation, as it provides you a standalone platform to open the PST file. Yes, you do not need to have Outlook installed on your computer. The software enables you to view the emails, notes, contacts, drafts, calendar items, etc. enclosed in the PST in the same way as you view in MS Outlook.

  tags: microsoft_office outlook troubleshooting

• Getting started with IMAP for Gmail - Gmail Help

  IMAP, or Internet Message Access Protocol, lets you download messages from Gmail's servers onto your computer so you can access your mail with a program like Microsoft Outlook Express or Apple Mail, even when you aren't connected to the Internet. IMAP1 creates a constant connection between mail clients (desktop and/or mobile) and Gmail.

  tags: microsoft_office outlook

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/11/2011 (a.m.)

• Starting Outlook in Safe Mode | MSOutlook.info

  When you hold he CTRL button on your keyboard when clicking the Outlook shortcut on your Desktop, Quick Launch toolbar or Start Menu, Outlook will detect this and asks you if you want to start Outlook in Safe Mode.

  tags: microsoft_office outlook troubleshooting

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/10/2011 (a.m.)

• Pencil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  Many pencils across the world, and almost all in Europe, are graded on the European system using a continuum from “H” (for hardness) to “B” (for blackness), as well as “F” (for fine point). The standard writing pencil is graded HB. According to Petroski, this system might have been developed in the early 20th century by Brookman, an English pencil maker. It used “B” for black and “H” for hard; a pencil's grade was described by a sequence or successive Hs or Bs such as BB and BBB for successively softer leads, and HH and HHH for successively harder ones

  tags: art tools

• Archive items manually - Outlook - Office.com

  AutoArchive, which is turned on by default, automatically moves old items to an archive location at scheduled intervals. However, you can manually back up and archive items to a location that you specify.

  tags: microsoft_office outlook troubleshooting

• Outlook 2007: Manual Archiving, UWEC

  There are various reasons why it may be necessary to manually archive your items. Manual archiving allows you to archive before AutoArchiving is due or to archive if AutoArchiving is turned off. Manual archiving also allows you to archive your files if you keep Outlook open, since Outlook only runs AutoArchive when you first launch the program. In addition, manual archiving lets you manually archive Contact items, which cannot be archived using AutoArchiving.

  tags: microsoft_office outlook troubleshooting

• How to find and run the Inbox Repair tool in Outlook

  The Inbox Repair tool (Scanpst.exe) is designed to help repair problems that are associated with personal folder (.pst) files. The Inbox Repair tool is included on the first Microsoft Office CD-ROM.

  tags: microsoft_office outlook troubleshooting

• Recovering Outlook email storage with Zmeil

  We have developed Zmeil to recover email messages from the Outlook databases, should it break down for some various reasons. Zmeil doesn’t try to repair PST file "in place", creating a copy instead. This approach eliminates the risk of further damage to the database. This document provides all the guidance necessary to recover messages from MS Outlook PST file.

  tags: microsoft_office outlook troubleshooting

• Download Details - Microsoft Download Center - Exchange 2000 Tool: PST2GB

  Tool for issues discussed in Q296088 Specific support tool to create a truncated copy of a .pst file allowing some recovery when the file size has reached over 2 gig. The copy does not have all the original data because the tool cuts a user defined amount of data from the file.
  
  

  tags: microsoft_office outlook troubleshooting

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/09/2011 (a.m.)

• SuperKids Towers of Hanoi

  The Towers of Hanoi puzzle was published in 1883 by French mathematician Edouard Lucas, under the pen-name, N. Lucas de Siam.

  tags: puzzle game

• Fresh Thinking About Schooling

  The concept of Slow, as it has emerged from the slow food movement, derives its power as a metaphor from its moral force. It is about what it is good to do; to enjoy "quiet material pleasure", as Carlo Petrini has put it, which entails making judgments about conduct, virtue, and balance. In the Slow City, for example, the virtue of courage emboldens citizens to restrict the growth of hypermarkets so that specialist providers are not put out of business. As a result, people can conduct themselves thoughtfully in a society that values personal experience. Since education is essentially about equipping our children with the ability to act responsibly in a complex society, the idea of a Slow School follows very readily from the metaphor of Slow.

  tags: schools complexity education critical_thinking

• Hole-in-the-Wall - Minimally Invasive Education

  Minimally Invasive Education is defined as a pedagogic method that uses the learning environment to generate an adequate level of motivation to induce learning in groups of children, with minimal, or no, intervention by a teacher.

  tags: minimally_invasive_learning exploration discovery peer_coaching

• Hole-in-the-Wall - Beginnings

  The acquisition of basic computing skills by any set of children can be achieved through incidental learning provided the learners are given access to a suitable computing facility, with entertaining and motivating content and some minimal (human) guidance.

  tags: autonomy incidental_learning

• How Guests can Upload Files to your Google Docs Anonymously

  One option is that you create a shared folder (or collection) in Google Docs and invite all the other people, who you want to collaborate with, as “editors” (i.e., set the sharing setting for them as “Can Edit”). Now these editors can easily add new files to your Google Docs folder but a drawback is that they can also view (and even remove) files that have been uploaded by others in the folder.

  tags: google_docs file_sharing

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/07/2011 (p.m.)

• Timecave: Future Email Scheduling and Reminders

The idea is simple: drop an email message into Time Cave and tell it when to come out. It'll stay there for as long as you'd like, within reason. (We wouldn't want stalactites to dissolve it.) So for days, weeks, months, or even years, Time Cave will hold onto your message. Once the message's time comes, it's speedily sent on its way back toward you (or whomever you addressed it to). Use it as a free reminder service or just to send your future self a kind note. Want to make sure you don't forget something, whether it's an appointment or an ideal? Time Cave can help.

tags: email time

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/06/2011 (p.m.)

• TheBrain | Dynamic Mind Mapping Software

  Brainstorming was popularized in 1939 by Alex Osborn. He was a partner in an ad agency looking to expand the boundaries of projects and create a better context for idea generation. Osborn developed several rules for a good brainstorming session: encourage large quantities of ideas, include the outlandish unusual ideas, minimize judgment, and build on each idea. In 1939 brainstorming methodology was solid but technology was still disconnected. Alex Osborn could have his secretary type up the groups’ ideas (as most real managers in 1939 didn’t type) and hand them out on a piece of paper to everyone.

  tags: brainstorming history

• 7 point checklist for Instructional Designers

  Title aside, it is a useful book and a really practical starting point for any instructional designer.  Inevitably somewhat dated now, the book includes a list of ‘adult learning principles’ that are still relevant, so I thought I would share some of them here. The full list makes a great checklist for reviewing the quality of your own instructional design.

  tags: isd instructional_design

• Five Ways Twitter Can Help You Conquer Distraction - Alexandra Samuel - Harvard Business Review

  If you were going to design the perfect distraction, you'd probably make it irresistibly urgent, gossipy, and/or funny. You'd design it to be able to reach you any way possible, whether by e-mail, web site, or smart phone. You'd have it come from a trusted voice that you want to hear from, like a friend or an inspirational leader. And you'd make it small enough that you could squeeze it into the tiniest gap in time you might have available. Let's say, 140 characters long.

  tags: twitter concentration

• Can American Students Rediscover Their Creativity? David Kelley Thinks So - Education - GOOD

  In his speech at last week's Aspen Ideas Festival, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman told attendees, "When we got out of college we had to find a job. When our kids get out of college they will have to invent a job." But how can students develop their job-creating, innovation-oriented talents if our education system remains centered on knowing and applying information instead of teaching creative, big-picture thinking?

  tags: creativity education

• Top 46 Google Chrome Shortcuts That Save Time

  Many times, working with the mouse can be inefficient and it’s often more efficient to just use the keyboard. If you’ve already installed Google Chrome on your computer and regularly use it, then these shortcuts will save you a lot of time (and energy)…

  tags: google chrome tech_tips

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/05/2011 (p.m.)

• 4Kids.org TechKNOWLEDGEy!

  www.4Kids.org is a weekly newspaper feature and Web site produced at the University of Kansas by a team of educators and students with support from Advanced Learning Technologies in Education Consortium (ALTEC).  Our vision is to promote reading and intellectual interests by providing children and parents a variety of high-quality Web sites that demonstrate learning can be a safe, fun and adventurous activity. www.4Kids.org offers adults a reliable way to guide children toward high-quality sites without discouraging their natural curiosity and exploration. We also encourage children to communicate with us about future publications, and the popular “Ask Amy” column responds to questions submitted about technology and the Internet.

  tags: learning games

• Kids Games - Play Educational and Fun Online Kids Games! Play Kids Games.

  Play Kids Games provides free online kids games that are both fun and educational. Aimed at ages pre-K through middle school, Play Kids Games offers kids a safe environment to discover their abilities and learn new skills with interactive and fun computer games. Our games build skills in math, logic, memory, vocabulary, alphabet, spelling, geography, computer skills, color identification, shape identification and other various problem solving. Our commitment to parents, teachers, and kids, is to connect learning and skill building with a sense of challenge, fun, and self esteem. From the fun of "Alphabet Whack-a-Mole" to the skill building "Math Fact Practice", our hope is that PlayKidsGames.com will be a part of our future generation's ongoing experience and development.

  tags: learning games

• Learning Games For Kids

  Educational games are a great tool for building foundation math and language skills that today's elementary school curriculum requires. These online learning games and songs for kids are fun, teach important skills for preschool and elementary school kids and they're free. Want educational games that help build skills in math, language, science, social studies, and more? You've come to the right place!

  tags: learning games

• Educational Games – Free Kids Educational Games at Knowledge Adventure

  Knowledge Adventure has been making educational games for kids for over two decades. Working with child experts, developmental psychologists and educators, it produces games loved by parents and children alike. The fun educational games created by Knowledge Adventure have won many awards, including the iParenting Media Award, the Toy Man Award of Excellence and the National Parenting Seal of Approval, to name a few. Here is Knowledge Adventure’s collection of one hundred fun, free online educational games for kids.

  tags: learning games

• 13 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 25 | Upside Learning Blog

  It’s no secret that effective learning cannot be achieved without a robust strategy. If this remains true for eLearning, why shouldn’t you have a strategy for mLearning too? Further, with the relatively less number of mLearning tools available and the myriad number of different devices and platforms, creating content for the mobile devices is no mean task. How do you then create quick and simple content for the iPhone? Find answers to these questions and more in our Weekly Digest – a collection of top 13 links from the week gone by, each accompanied by a quick brief.

  tags: mlearning resources

• APA Style Blog: Procrastination: On Writing Tomorrow What You Should Have Written Last Year

  Knowledge never sleeps, but it has been known to waste a lot of time on the Internet. The process of sharing knowledge via the written word ought to be easier than it is for the overeducated scientists, scholars, and practitioners who create psychology’s body of knowledge. But procrastination is deeply rooted in human nature—alongside the capacity for reflective thought, the ability to acquire language, and the love of deep-fried desserts—so it’s a vexing problem for academic writers.

  tags: writing reflective_thinking

• The Bluebook

  Generations of law students, lawyers, scholars, judges, and other legal professionals have relied on The Bluebook's unique system of citation in their writing. In a diverse and rapidly changing legal profession, The Bluebook continues to provide a systematic method by which members of the profession communicate important information to one another about the sources and legal authorities upon which they rely in their work.

  tags: law citation apa reference

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/04/2011 (p.m.)

• Social networking sites and our lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

  Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Do these technologies isolate people and truncate their relationships? Or are there benefits associated with being connected to others in this way? The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project decided to examine social networking sites in a survey that explored people’s overall social networks and how use of these technologies is related to trust, tolerance, social support, and community and political engagement. The findings presented here paint a rich and complex picture of the role that digital technology plays in people’s social worlds. Wherever possible, we seek to disentangle whether people’s varying social behaviors and attitudes are related to the different ways they use social networking sites, or to other relevant demographic characteristics, such as age, gender and social class.

  tags: social_networking pew_internet

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/03/2011 (a.m.)

• The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

  A compilation of poetry highlights that were recently broadcast on Garrison Keillor's daily radio program along with links to the readings and opportunities to purchase recent books by the featured poets.

  tags: poetry literature radio podcast

• Detroit in ruins | Art and design | The Observer

  Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's extraordinary photographs documenting the dramatic decline of a major American city. For an interactive tour of January's best photo exhibitions and books, see The New Review's month in photography

  tags: photography history culture society

• IMSS: A Museum Dedicated to Surgical Science

  The International Museum of Surgical Science proudly presents an innovative new version of OUR BODY: The Universe Within. Unlike any prior anatomical exhibition, OUR BODY at IMSS integrates preserved whole-body and organ specimens with artifacts from the Museum's permanent collection to showcase both the complexity of the human body and the ingenuity of modern and historical medical technologies. This joint exhibition also illustrates the progress of anatomical study from early dissection and atlases to the revolutionary process of polymer impregnation, which has made display of these specimens possible on its current scale.

  tags: science surgery museum medical history

• Righthaven Loss: Judge Rules Reposting Entire Article Is Fair Use | Threat Level | Wired.com

  A federal judge ruled Monday that publishing an entire article without the rights holder’s authorization was a fair use of the work, in yet another blow to newspaper copyright troll Righthaven. It’s not often that republishing an entire work without permission is deemed fair use. Fair use is an infringement defense when the defendant reproduced a copyrighted work for purposes such as criticism, commentary, teaching and research. The defense is analyzed on a case-by-case basis.

  tags: law copyright fair_use

• Otomata

  Things involving computational (sound) art, and my work swirling around the subject are here.

  tags: music sound generator

• BBC News - Time zones: About time

  Theoretically, the world should be divided into 24 equal time zones, in which each zone differs from the last by one hour. But as the years have passed, the world has turned into a much more complicated place.

  tags: history time

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A. Kipta's Blog 07/02/2011 (p.m.)

• Fallacies

  A fallacy is, very generally, an error in reasoning. This differs from a factual error, which is simply being wrong about the facts. To be more specific, a fallacy is an "argument" in which the premises given for the conclusion do not provide the needed degree of support. A deductive fallacy is a deductive argument that is invalid (it is such that it could have all true premises and still have a false conclusion). An inductive fallacy is less formal than a deductive fallacy. They are simply "arguments" which appear to be inductive arguments, but the premises do not provided enough support for the conclusion. In such cases, even if the premises were true, the conclusion would not be more likely to be true.

  tags: philosophy logic

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