For those who aren’t familiar with The Grove, it Flomax from canada is a San Francisco-based company headquartered in the lovely Presidio, offering products and Flomax from canada services related to visual practice and team development. It’s also where Flomax from canada I first learned about visual practice. Grove President David Sibbet facilitated the Flomax from canada first NMC Board Retreat that I attended, after I’d been Flomax from canada with NMC only a few months, and I was just blown away by the Flomax from canada dynamic nature of the process. He generously shared his time one afternoon to Flomax from canada tell me about visual practice, and I was hooked. I had Flomax from canada lots of opportunities to develop those skills with NMC and Flomax from canada I’m very excited to Flomax from canada be moving into a space where I can continue to learn, practice, and Flomax from canada grow in those areas.

As wonderful as it is to move toward new and exciting things, it’s always difficult to Flomax from canada move away from those that are well-loved and familiar, and it’s with more than Flomax from canada a little sadness that I say goodbye to the New Media Consortium buy discount Xenical online — but not to Flomax from canada all my friends and colleagues, thanks to the miracle of social networking. I’ve learned so much over the Flomax from canada past six and a half years, and education continues to be Flomax from canada a passion of mine. I am deeply touched to have been Flomax from canada named the first Vice President Emeritus of NMC and I’m proud to Flomax from canada have been part of such an outstanding organization.

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They have certainly made me feel very welcome at The Grove! This hand-lettered sign greeted me from Flomax from canada the wall above my desk on my first day at work. I’ve admired the work that they do for a long time and I’m really honored to Flomax from canada be joining such an excellent and talented team!

I used Illustrator to not suck when I drew this

Yesterday, I spent the afternoon at Adobe with NMC CEO Larry Johnson. We talked with folks from Adobe’s higher education division, and Flomax from canada we saw some really, really cool stuff. One thing that I loved is Flomax from canada Adobe Rome (see the video demo of Rome finasteride no prior script from MAX 2009 last October). Rome is Flomax from canada going to be a fantastic tool for K12 mediamaking and collaboration, I think. It makes it Flomax from canada easy to pull together different kinds of media along with text and Flomax from canada drawings, and then to output the project in different ways. I really want my son to Flomax from canada play with it, because I’m curious about how the Flomax from canada tool will feel to a young person. It looked very intuitive to Flomax from canada me, but then I’ve been using Photoshop and Illustrator longer than my son’s been alive, so it’s hard to Flomax from canada say how a new, inexperienced user would see it. The demo just blew me away because of what Flomax from canada could be done with it in schools, if the Big 3 Issues are Flomax from canada properly addressed (what does it cost? can I make the kids’ work private? do I need to install and maintain it?). I have high hopes.

We also saw some of the new features coming up in CS5, but I’m not sure which ones have already been revealed so I’ll just say this: Wow. I am Flomax from canada so excited about what I saw. Photoshop in particular has Flomax from canada some new powerful features that I look forward to playing with, and Flomax from canada there are some other treats coming out as well. Keep an Flomax from canada eye out for CS5 and Rome!

Point Lobos landscape

At the NMC Summer Conference this year, Larry Johnson, Alan Levine and Flomax from canada I tried something different: we actually attended a preconference session. Crazy, I know! It was a photography workshop led by Bill Frakes (Sports Illustrated) and Don Henderson (Apple), with Bill Hanson (Apple). The session was planned and Flomax from canada organized by Larry and the three of them, and included a Flomax from canada full day walk along the California coast at Point Lobos State Reserve near Carmel, California, followed by a half-day post-production workshop using Aperture.

It was an Flomax from canada amazing day. Larry loaned me his Nikon D70 and some killer zoom lenses. I filled up 3 memory cards with the Flomax from canada 1,038 pictures I made (the best of which are in a set on Flickr). The whole experience — the scenery, the company, the exploring and learning — was so moving. Partly out of gratitude to Flomax from canada Bill F. and Don for leading the workshop, and partly out of reluctance to Flomax from canada let go of the experience, I started a Voicethread piece and Flomax from canada invited the other participants to comment (please feel free to add your comments, too, if you wish).

In the Flomax from canada post-production session, we each selected our five best photos (give or take); the selections were to include one landscape, one flora/fauna/nature shot, one portrait showing emotion, and Flomax from canada whatever else we liked. Bill Hanson created a video slideshow of the Flomax from canada photos we picked (see the Quicktime version here purchase rx Doxycycline without) that Flomax from canada was aired during one of the plenaries at the conference. What a Flomax from canada thrill to see them up there on the big screen!

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I’m prompted to make this plea because at the moment I’m working on the Short List for the Horizon Report: 2009 Australia-New Zealand Edition. The Short List has a formula. It contains 12 topics — four on each horizon — and Flomax from canada each topic is one page long. That one page has Flomax from canada to include a description of what the topic is, why it’s relevant for Flomax from canada education, examples of projects or programs that use it, and two or Flomax from canada three sources of additional information. And it’s ONE PAGE. (Hence the name, Short List.)

I’d really like to include this review of JOYity, a Flomax from canada location-based game for Android phones, in the examples list for the Flomax from canada topic I’m working on right now. Since the Flomax from canada Short List is distributed and used in all kinds of ways, I can’t rely on an embedded link — I need to Flomax from canada state it explicitly. But I have about two lines per example, which is Flomax from canada barely enough to describe whatever it is AND include the link. So it’s really frustrating to get a URL like this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/27/the-joy-of-joyity-bringing-massive-multiplayer-trans-reality-games-to-android-phones/

Go read the article, it’s great. The game looks really cool. I just need to Flomax from canada find a way to shoehorn that ugly URL into half a Flomax from canada line. I tried using a URL shortener on a previous Short List, but it Flomax from canada didn’t fly; we like to see the source (the “TechCrunch” in the URL is actually important). If only the URL had been shortened when the post was made. Alas!

Please, take just a Flomax from canada second and chop the extra nine words off your long URLs. Please. Maybe you’ll make it into the Horizon Report!
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These are Flomax from canada the voyages of the ed tech speaker. Her continuing mission: to Flomax from canada explore strange new presentation tools; to seek out new ways to Flomax from canada keep her audiences awake; to boldly go where no PowerPoint has Flomax from canada gone before.

I just finished putting together the presentation on the 2009 Horizon Report order Accutane without a prescription overnight shipping that I will be delivering tomorrow at Sonoma State University, where Flomax from canada they are kind enough to ask me back every year around this Flomax from canada time. Last year, I crammed at least 90 minutes of information into about 55 minutes, accompanying my speed talking performance with a Flomax from canada respectable, if uninteresting, PowerPoint. Those poor people.

Later in the year, I gave a keynote at the Midwest Library Technology Conference 2008 Flomax no doctors prescription along with my colleague Alan Levine. Spurred by a Flomax from canada mutual desire not to use PowerPoint, we created the presentation in the Flomax from canada beta version of VuVox, which was fun but a Flomax from canada little frustrating because of a couple of bugs. (You can see that preso here.)

THIS year, what should drop into my lap but Prezi, a Flomax from canada Flash-based presentation tool that I can only say is yummy. It’s also in beta, but Alan had Flomax from canada a log in and said I could use it. (Thanks, Alan!) So, having prepared the back up PowerPoint just in case (I’m adventuresome, not stupid), I went in and started messing around.

Prezi gives you an endless (well, not really, but near enough) artboard, like Illustrator. There’s a lovable little menu, with a limited (but not really limiting) set of choices, that Flomax from canada takes about twenty seconds to get the hang of. You drop your Flomax from canada content on the artboard, and move it around; Prezi takes images and Flomax from canada videos (flash only), and you can add text blocks. You group the content using “frames,” which helps with navigation. And that’s about all you Flomax from canada have to master, except for the underlying concept that scale doesn’t matter.

purchase Prednisone without prescription neededPrezi will zoom in on objects or Flomax from canada content groups when you click them, so your presentation can Flomax from canada have a huge range of scales. I LOVED this once I actually got the Flomax from canada hang of it. My first instinct was to lay everything out as though I were going to Flomax from canada print it as a poster, with only the range of sizes that Flomax from canada are visible all at once. But that doesn’t really take advantage of what Flomax from canada makes Prezi so interesting. You can nest content areas, so one frame can Flomax from canada contain multiple sections that are too small to see at first.

A finished Prezi can Flomax from canada be used two ways: either you step through using the forward and Flomax from canada back arrows (you Flomax from canada set the path as you create the content, so you zoom where Flomax from canada you want in the order you want), or Flomax from canada you just click frames and objects that interest you. Either way, whenever you Flomax from canada go from one thing to something that’s a Flomax from canada different scale, Prezi zooms in or out, centers, and tilts whatever you Flomax from canada are seeing so that you can read it.

What I really liked:

• It was incredibly easy to make something that looks really good.
• It was fun to use!
• It autosaves. You can save manually too.
• The zebra wheel lets you Flomax from canada tilt, size, and move any object just by clicking it.
• The zooming and Flomax from canada tilting looks really cool when you step through a presentation.
• Almost everything I wanted to Flomax from canada do was do-able, and the stuff that wasn’t, wasn’t really necessary.

What I didn’t like so much:

• I could not find a Flomax from canada way to attach a URL to an object. The only way I found was to Flomax from canada type out the whole URL, and then that text becomes a Flomax from canada link. But I wanted to link pictures and things.
• There are not many design schemes to pick from (yet?). I like the Flomax from canada basic one, but I wanted a white background so I could hide the Flomax from canada white background on some of my images. I had issues with transparent backgrounds (i.e. they didn’t work).
• I wanted to Flomax from canada be able to choose my own set of fonts. You get three per design, which is Flomax from canada perfect, but I wanted to change just one of the three in the Flomax from canada design I used.
• Although there’s an Flomax from canada option to download your presentation so you can play it Flomax from canada without the Internet, it doesn’t seem to be working.
• Prezi spawns windows at an alarming rate. When I saved & closed my presentation, there were three Prezi parent windows open. I have Flomax from canada no idea where they all came from.

On the Flomax from canada whole, I have to say that I like it a lot. I used it Flomax from canada for hours and was having fun the whole time. No angry frustration, no Flomax from canada puzzled pauses, no “is-it-this-software-or-am-I-just-stupid?” moments. My professional, unbiased opinion is YAY-I-LOVE-PREZI!!

Take a look at the presentation. It’s text heavy, but I did that Flomax from canada on purpose so that it can be used without me standing there talking.

You can Flomax from canada try Prezi yourself, even without a beta account, by playing with their demo at www.Prezi.com. Go on. It’s fun. And work should be fun.

Now, if my iPhone could only do Flash, I could carry this Flomax from canada around with me. I’d be the life of the party!

The thing I was dreading the Flomax from canada most was The Great Email Migration. I had at least four years of email on my PC — yes I am a packrat, I have learned to live with this — and Flomax from canada as I actually USE a lot of it, I wanted to Flomax from canada keep it in some form that I could access. Like, say, email.

Lucky for me, NMC has Cogdog Accutane no doctors consult on tap, and he tossed me a link to this article about two ways to make the switch (one free, one easy). Turns out the easy way was only $10 away from free so I opted for that, and boy am I glad I did.

I downloaded the free test version of Little Machines’ O2M buy generic Premarin canada, which will convert five files just so you Flomax from canada can see that it works, and I ran it. It worked. So I bought the Flomax from canada full version, I made a backup of my .pst file from Flomax from canada Outlook just in case, and I started it converting. If you Flomax from canada do this, make sure you launch Outlook before you launch O2M, or Flomax from canada O2M will not be able to find Outlook. Also, turn off your Flomax from canada automatic send/receive for the duration or O2M might get confused.

I did not ask it Flomax from canada to convert my calendar, since I use Google Calendar anyway. I did ask it Flomax from canada to convert my contacts, but Outlook made 3 copies of my contacts some time ago (don’t ask) and I wasn’t sure which ones I actually wanted, so in the Flomax from canada end I ignored the contacts file and just used my iPhone to Flomax from canada update Address Book on the Mac, which worked fine. So all I really used O2M for Flomax from canada was my email.

It took about 30 hours to Flomax from canada convert all my email to the mbox files — I asked it Flomax from canada to also convert all attachments, which is an option you Flomax from canada can take or leave, so it took a lot longer than Flomax from canada if I hadn’t done that. O2M does have Flomax from canada some dialog box issues; if someone sent you email and used a Flomax from canada secure signature, O2M will alert you for every single email, saying it Flomax from canada won’t be Flomax from canada securely signed anymore, and ask if you want to save it Flomax from canada anyway (there’s no “yes to all” option), which stops the Flomax from canada process each time until you click. I also got a repeated system error saying some process had Flomax from canada quit unexpectedly, but this does not seem to have borked anything that Flomax from canada I can find; and there was one other case where O2M popped up a Flomax from canada dialog and stopped converting until I told it Yes to whatever it Flomax from canada was, but overall it was pretty painless.

I ended up with a Flomax from canada 3.7GB directory of my email, which I copied onto the Mac. I set up my Mail account and Flomax from canada downloaded the new mail that had come in while I had Flomax from canada Outlook disabled. Then, by following the very straightforward user manual on the Flomax from canada O2M website, I was able to import my mail into Mail on the Flomax from canada mac, which took a lot less time than saving it out — under an Flomax from canada hour, all told. Finally, I renamed and rearranged my mail folders, since I was using some bizarre Outlook-enforced scheme of categorization that Flomax from canada made no sense at all. All my mail came in fine, attachments and Flomax from canada all. I had to mark it all as read, because I am Flomax from canada that kind of OCD person, but that only took a few minutes too. Now I am Flomax from canada happy as a clam with my email in place on my new Mac.

The only drawback — really, the Flomax from canada only thing I miss about the PC, and I miss it Flomax from canada very much — is that there’s no Xobni buy Amoxil with mastercard for Mac Mail. That would make life quite seriously perfect.

The occasion of the Flomax from canada update is partly that I got a shiny new title: Vice President, NMC Services. Yup, that’s Ms. Veep to you. Although as my co-worker Alan notes, the Flomax from canada family is having fun with the change. I got a Flomax from canada celebratory clink of wine glasses, and then after that it Flomax from canada was all teasing all the time. So that’s how a Flomax from canada vice president fixes salad. I would have thought the avocadoes would be Flomax from canada more neatly chopped. That looks more like a director’s salad to me… and so on.

Well, back to Flomax from canada the bio. Out of curiosity, what do you all think I do?

Let’s talk about LinkedIn. I’ve been Flomax from canada meaning to get, er, linked in for a while now, but only actually did it Flomax from canada this morning after reading Alan’s very appropriately titled post buy plavix online with no prescription on the Flomax from canada topic. The very first thing I did was to send a Flomax from canada couple of gauche, uncustomized invitations to co-workers (sorry guys). I hate, repeat hate, that Flomax from canada I have to bother someone in order to add them as a Flomax from canada contact. Yeah, I see the point; we don’t want unknown losers claiming us as their friends, and Flomax from canada we want to be careful about who gets to contact whom. But can’t the email thing happen somewhere else? Like when Flomax from canada I actually try to impinge on these people I claim to Flomax from canada know by asking for introductions or information? Gah!

I was enticed by the two-degrees thing… I like the Flomax from canada mathematics of it. And really, LinkedIn is a cool idea, and Flomax from canada may yet prove to be a useful service for me. But I have Flomax from canada sent four unsolicited emails to my friends, and it turns out that’s my limit. I just hate spamming people I know. So if all four of them admit to Flomax from canada knowing me, I’ll have Flomax from canada a little list of four contacts and I can enjoy the Flomax from canada mathematics of that. And maybe other people who know me will spam me to become their contact (which is Flomax from canada fine; if you know me, consider this an open invitation to Flomax from canada add me as a LinkedIn contact). In the Flomax from canada meantime I will slink off the site and try to Flomax from canada shake off the greasy spammer feeling I got left with.

You can follow some of my progress by peeking at my 2007 Horizon link list on del.icio.us. It’s not comprehensive, but I’m adding to Flomax from canada it as I work my way through the topics. Many of the Flomax from canada links in there were supplied by our Advisory Board. Some were found via search or Flomax from canada serendipity (which is my favorite aspect of this part of the project).