AirParrot. This app allows those with older Macs (non-Mountain Lion macs) that do not have AirPlay Mirroring built in, the ability to do just that...stream your screen wirelessly to an Apple TV. For $9.99 it was worth it. My principal had fallen in love with the announcement slide show I would show on our cafe TV. I was using an iPad with Keynote, Airplay and Apple TV. It was working great until other staff jumped on the Apple TV bandwagon! Our network went from one person using Apple TV to six and my poor little iPad (and its AirPlay) kept getting kicked off our network and Airplay kept losing it's connection to the cafe's Apple TV. I know what you are thinking...dummy it's NOT the Ipad or the Apple TV's fault but it's your network...IT CAN'T HANDLE ALL THAT STUFF and you are right. Being the stubborn, OCD tech person that I am, I was not willing to give up. I downloaded the AirParrot trial, which gave me 20 minutes to see if I liked it. I put it on my MacBook and it worked like a charm. It never lost its connection with my cafe's Apple TV (maybe somebody out there can explain this one to me) but it is just what the doctored ordered!
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Monday, November 4, 2013
Why the Brain Prefers Paper.
A interesting article forwarded to me by my principal. It is from the November 2013 issue of Scientific American (p. 49-53).
Here's the skinny of it. "Studies in the past two decades indicate that people often understand and remember text on paper better than on a screen, Screens may inhibit comprehension by preventing people from intuitively navigating and mentally mapping long texts."
"In general, screens are also more cognitively and physically taxing than paper. Scrolling demands constant conscious effort, and LCD screens on tablets and laptops can strain the eyes and cause headaches by shining light directly on people's faces."
"Preliminary research suggests that even so-called digital natives are more likely to recall the gist of a story when they read it on paper because enhanced e-books and e-readers themselves are too distracting. Paper's greatest strength may be its simplicity" (Jabr, Ferris. Scientific American. November 2013. p 49.)
Here's the skinny of it. "Studies in the past two decades indicate that people often understand and remember text on paper better than on a screen, Screens may inhibit comprehension by preventing people from intuitively navigating and mentally mapping long texts."
"In general, screens are also more cognitively and physically taxing than paper. Scrolling demands constant conscious effort, and LCD screens on tablets and laptops can strain the eyes and cause headaches by shining light directly on people's faces."
"Preliminary research suggests that even so-called digital natives are more likely to recall the gist of a story when they read it on paper because enhanced e-books and e-readers themselves are too distracting. Paper's greatest strength may be its simplicity" (Jabr, Ferris. Scientific American. November 2013. p 49.)
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