The tough thing about best practices is remembering to practice them: a while back I started to collect my screencasts on particular topics into one, easy-to-remember link (e.g. iMovie ‘09 information is at http://battis.net/link/imovie09). I spent a while uploading my Flash tutorials to one of my class conferences the other day, forgetting to just create [...]
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Flickr Filename to URL Converter
My inner librarian is strong. Perhaps too strong. I have a large collection of photos from Flickr that I use for my desktop wallpaper. A couple times each week, someone comments on my desktop and wonders where I got the photo. So, I was pondering the problem of reverse engineering the garbage-strings of numbers that [...]
A Beginner’s Guide to Video Editing in iMovie ‘09
In preparation for a class that I’ll be visiting on Monday morning, and because I have found myself explaining these things a bunch of times this year, I have put together a quick series of screencasts that give an introduction to basic video editing in iMovie. I do this not because I think that my [...]
Convert Word Processing Files to PDF
This post is part of a series that are components of my “Expert Plan” at my school, looking to create a shared resource for my colleagues as the school moves towards greater adoption of laptops and technology in our pedagogy.
This AppleScript application converts any word processing files that Pages can open into PDFs. This application [...]
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