Sunday, April 27, 2008


Here is the teams part. The team would like us to use this as a place to post comments and ideas for applications. You know, just to find what the team considers interesting and apply it for the team's use, then give the team feedback on the application.


The team's latest finding has been deepBurner ... a great digital video disc and compact disc burner. Most of our faculty have been using Media Player to burn sound files and/or The Windows Xenon Professional's ability to burn data files. This program however, is great in reliability, it has a small file size and is fast.

*Ok, here is the latest find. I found a program under Educational Software on download.com called Athan Basic. I've been using it for a few weeks now...boy, is this program a dynamo or what? What it does is streamlines the playing of Athan five times a day during each prayer time with a built in synchroclock that has over 6 million towns, cities, and villages worldwide. I think it is safe to assume that cleveland is covered, but what a boost to our spiritual life! Also, for those of us that might not be up on our Aramaic, it translates the Athan into such popular languages as French and cypranian, perfect for our teachers from "across the pond"!

I also found a really great website to upload ringtones. Make sure you go here after you cut down the tracks like "Big Bad Wolf" or other town favorites as "Did You know that You are my Hero?"

Ok staff, its come to my attention that the Happy Hands club basic flash animation for learning sign language needs to be kicked into high gear. In order to facilitate that, I have found this program on download.com. The program is FreeTrak and it will allow our faculty to manage their Ncaa tournament pool by importing all the information they care about directly from the internet. What's so great about this is that if some piece of software is managing it for them then they won't have to waste time that could be spend submitting animation frames for our compilation on the basketball tournament results.

OK Staff, it has come to my attention that milliseconds of the department's time have been wasted because people AREN'T using hot keys as required and outlined in the Department's Instructional Manual that I spent years creating. Guys, this COLOSSAL waste of time is unacceptable. How can we expect students to embrace technology if WE'RE AFRAID to implement it ourselves? Despicable.