Tools of the Trade: What a tech leader needs to get the job done

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Tools of the TradeWhat a tech leader needsto
get the job done

• Doug Prouty
• Contra Costa CountyOffice of Education
• dprouty_at_cccoe.k12.ca.us

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What are the Tools

• Web Sites
• Software
• Hardware
• Email Listservs
• Journals

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The Snorkelwww.cccoe.k12.ca.us/snorkel
www.thesnorkel.org
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Other Web Sites

• TechSETS www.techsets.org
• Tical www.portical.org
• CLRN www.clrn.org
• C-Smart www.c-smart.org
• MCREL www.mcrel.org
• WestEd www.wested.org
• Tech Leaders Resource Center - http//www.minot.co
  m/nansen/

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Software

• Text Editors
• Graphics
• Network Support
• Web and FTP
• Utilities . . .

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Software - Text Editors

• textSOAP (20) (P M)
• Edit Plus (30) (P)
• CopyPaste (20) (M)
• BBEdit (free) (M)
• Tex-Edit Plus (15) (M)
• TypeIt4Me (free) (M)

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Software - Text Editors textSOAP by Unmarked
Software
Cleans text from the Internet and
emails Removes paragraphs, , tabs, dashes,
etc.
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Software - Text Editors Edit Plus by ES
Computing

• Syntax Highlighting
• CSS
• PHP
• ASP
• Perl with output capture
• C/C with output capture
• Java with output capture
• JavaScript
• VBScript
• Browser window (Web surfing)

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Software - Graphics

• Snapz Pro (49) (M)
• ACDSee (40) (M)
• HyperCam (30) (P)
• Paint Shop Pro (89) (P)

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Software - Graphics Paint Shop Pro by JASC
Software

• Retouch, repair, and edit photos. Optimize Web
  graphics with built-in Web tools and artistic
  drawing and text tools

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Software - Graphics Snapz Pro by Ambrosia
Software

• Screen images as .bmp, .pict, .gif, .jpg, .png,
  .tiff, .pdf, or Photoshop files, and can even
  record the action as a QuickTime movie

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Software - Graphics Hyper Cam by Hyperionics

• Captures the action from your Windows  screen and
  saves it to AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie
  file. Sound from your system microphone is also
  recorded.

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Software - Graphics ACDSee ACD Systems

• a picture viewer, graphic converter and digital
  image manage-ment tool

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Software - Network Support

• PC
• Transcend Network Supervisor (free)
• ZoneAlarm (free)
• Sam Spade (free)
• Mac
• IPNetMonitor - (89)
• MacPing (99)

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Software - Network Support IPNetMonitor -

• Ping, Trace Route, NS Lookup, Who Is, Finger, etc.

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Software - Network Support Transcend Network
Supervisor

• 3Coms free network management software

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Software - Network Support Mac Ping

• IP and AppleTalk network testing tool

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Software - Web/FTP

• Compression
• WinZip (P) or MacZIP, ZipIt, StuffIt (M)
• Email Client
• Eudora LabPOP
• FTP
• Transmit FTP (M) or Smart FTP, WS_FTP (P)
• Telnet
• NiftyTelnet or BetterTelnet (M) or AbsoluteTelnet
  (P)

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Software - Web/FTP LabPOP email client

• Fits on a floppy, doesnt save users info or in
  box

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Software - General Utilities Macintosh

• iClean by Alladin (30) Toss cookies, cache
  files, histories and more
• DiskWarrior by Alsoft (69)the highest decorated
  disk repair utility.
• TechTool Lite by Micromat (free)Award winning
  utility to rebuild desktops, analyze system
  components, zap PRAM

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Software - General Utilities Windows

• Recover4all (49)Can undelete files that were
  removed from the recycle bin and can run directly
  from a floppy disk
• Delpart (Free)Great utility for deleting and
  reconfiguring hard drive partitians.
• McAfee Utilities (40)zip, unzip, undelete,
  shred, clean up, or back up your files

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Hardware

• Cable Testers
• MicroTest www.microtest.com

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Email - Listservs

• TechCoord
• To post to the Technology coordinator's list
  techcoord_at_alisal.org
• To get info about the list macjordomo_at_alisal.org
• To contact the List Administrator (me)
  tlandeck_at_alisal.org
• CEDPA www.cedpa-k12.org

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Journals

• Electronic-School www.electronic-school.com
• FNO www.fno.org
• Converge www.convergemag.com
• The New Curriculum - http//www.newcurriculum.com/
  
• Edtechnot.com - http//www.edtechnot.com/
• OnCUE http//www.cue.org

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Thank You

• Doug Prouty
• Contra Costa CountyOffice of Education
• dprouty_at_cccoe.k12.ca.us