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Archive for February 2008

Rough Draft 3.0

Feb 20th, 2008 | By Eric Hoefler | Category: Writing/Media/Genre

I’ve just dumped Word for RoughDraft,1 at least when it comes to stories and scripts. So far, RoughDraft is much, much better than a typical word-processor for writing prose and scripts, and a decent replacement for (and certainly cheaper than) FinalDraft or Movie Magic Screenwriter.2
I haven’t worked much with FinalDraft, but MMS does have [...]



Working with Blackboard Presentation

Feb 15th, 2008 | By Eric Hoefler | Category: Education/Literacy

I delivered a presentation last night to teachers who work in a county that only allows them to use Blackboard.  Given that, I saw no point to going in and talking about the possibilities that other tools and services make available, or complaining about the limitations of Blackboard.1  That’s a presentation for the administration.  Instead, [...]



Notebooks & Textbooks

Feb 13th, 2008 | By Eric Hoefler | Category: Education/Literacy

I mentioned the notebook/textbook approach in my previous post, so I thought I’d take a minute here to explain it further. The idea is pretty basic, and something a lot of people already do without necessarily calling it that. To me, it’s just an approach to these tools that integrates blogs and wikis [...]