This afternoon, hundreds of the biggest geeks in the country gathered in San Francisco for MacWorld 2008. Although last week’s announcement of updated desktop systems pointed to Something Really Big to come, I was disappointed by what we got. Do I want a MacBook Air? Duh, of course, even though I think it would more […]
AppleTV, anyone?
January 15th, 2008 · Ryan · 2 Comments ·
Tags: apple tv • language houses • learning centers • macworld • macworld2008 • whats and whys
The Cocktail Party Effect
December 26th, 2007 · Barbara · No Comments ·
Last summer, at the IALLT Biennial conference, when I described the addition of parakeets and finches in the set up of our language center, someone remarked “Of course! How brilliant! The Cocktail Party Effect!.”
I never knew that there was a name for this, nor that it had a page in Wikipedia. I […]
Tags: learning centers • management • students
Windows Users: what can’t an Intel Mac do?
November 12th, 2007 · Ryan · 4 Comments ·
We’re due to have the computers in our lab refreshed this year, and with Gateway being split and sold, we’re not yet sure who will be supplying our campus’s PCs for next academic year and beyond.
One idea for how to avoid the whole PC / Mac issue that we had is to simply have a […]
Tags: hardware • learning centers • windows