Leopard Spotted

Developers attending the World Wide Developers Conference left San Francisco with tomorrow in their hands. A near final version of Mac OS X Leopard. Scheduled to ship this October, the world’s most advanced operating system comes with more than 300 new features designed to make it easier—and more enjoyable—to work and play on your Mac.

Among the innovative features coming to your Mac in Leopard, you’ll enjoy:

•	A new Desktop that features a translucent menu bar and reflective Dock with Stacks, folders that help you keep your desktop clutter-free.
•	A new Finder that makes browsing files as easy as browsing music in iTunes, letting you quickly scan documents in Cover Flow or find them instantly using Spotlight and its new pre-built smart searches.
•	Quick Look, a magical new way to get, well, a quick look at your documents—photos (even RAW images), text files, Keynote presentations, PDFs, Excel files, QuickTime movies, Word files—without opening them.
•	Time Machine, which introduces an entirely new—and effortless—way to maintain an up-to-date copy of everything on your Mac: invoices, music, photos, TV shows, and other documents.
•	Spaces, a great new version of Mail, next-generation video chatting with iChat, and many other new features make their debut in the sixth major release of Mac OS X this October.

Wiki and Blogs for Education

I recently went to a conference in south dakota called TIE which is a yearly technology workshop. They are starting to embrase the things our kids love to do at sites like bebo, myspace, facebook and other site. These are not new concepts it is just something the kids do now. They nolonger hang out at the arcade they hang out online and type message to each other. The real question is how do we get our teacher, staff, parents and administrator to embrace this way of communicating. I dont have the answer but I know that we can moderate our intranet and setup stuff like wordpress (multiuser) or built in apple server blog software.

I like the Joomla for content managment software with its variety of modules and components.