Category: Random Musings

  • You are a marvel

    “Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should…

  • 5 Years of the PM Techblog

    Happy Birthday! Today the PM Technology Blog is officially 5 years old. Over the past several years, blog readership has grown at a steady clip–we are just shy of 28,000 visits. During this time, technology has transformed at a mind-melting pace. Consider that in July 2007: MySpace was the king of social media with 70…

  • New Year’s Greetings

    I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone in the Penn Manor community the best for 2011. We’ve had an extraordinary number of student and staff accomplishments over the past 12 months. I look forward to new innovations, ideas and successes in the coming year and wish you all a very happy 2011.

  • Best Tech Comic of 2010

    The following pretty much sums up the point I’ve been making to staff and faculty for the past several years: See the original XKCD post here: http://xkcd.com/743/

  • Penn Manor at PETE&C

    Penn Manor students and staff were prominently featured at the PA Educational Technology Conference (PETE&C) this past week. On Sunday, Shelby Foster conduced a pre-conference workshop on Moodle basics. Monday featured two poster sessions from Pequea staff: Kevin Bower and Carin Leisure. Kevin demoed the Tech-it-Out parent tech showcase initiative while Carin showed off her…

  • Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office

    Microsoft Office has long been the de-facto program for word processing, spreadsheets and presentation creation. That standard comes with a price. Even with educational discounts, MS Office can be a costly program to license, upgrade and maintain. Over the past few years, independent open-source software developers have created several free alternatives to Word, Excel and…