dalebasler.com » storage http://www.dalebasler.com education.collaboration.design.technology Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:09:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Stacks of papers? Scan them all! http://www.dalebasler.com/2008/11/stacks-of-papers-scan-them-all/ http://www.dalebasler.com/2008/11/stacks-of-papers-scan-them-all/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:38:26 +0000 Dale Basler http://www.dalebasler.com/?p=237 I just discovered that our copy machine works as a scanner too. Below is a video demonstration that shows how the copier at my school can scan documents and send them as emails.

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I’ve been on a quest to digitize all my materials for class in an effort to save paper and backup everything I have. Now that scanning multiple pages is so easy, here are a few things I’ve been scanning:

  • answer keys: for worksheets and study guides
  • students’ quizzes: like it or not some students cheat, now I have a record of what each quiz looked like before I passed it back
  • old worksheets: I have few gems that are only in hard copy, now they can be backed up digitally
  • workshop handouts: I still get a lot of paper from workshops but now I can file this material in folders with my other digital work
  • clippings and comics: preserving the stack of newspaper clippings and comics that I’ve collected over the years is now a breeze
  • extra readings: I like to share excerpts from books with my students but I was never happy with all the paper wasted when students read something once and then discard it

Those are just a few examples of how I’ve begun to digitize my classroom. If you have any other ideas, share them in the comments.

]]> http://www.dalebasler.com/2008/11/stacks-of-papers-scan-them-all/feed/ 1 New look at your files with SpaceMonger http://www.dalebasler.com/2007/08/new-look-at-your-files-with-spacemonger/ http://www.dalebasler.com/2007/08/new-look-at-your-files-with-spacemonger/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:05:24 +0000 Dale Basler http://www.dalebasler.com/?p=96 Every few months the IT folks at my school send out a note to all the teachers who are using too much disk space.  I’m never sure what to do when I get this message.  What exactly should I delete?

SpaceMonger is a little piece of software that gives you a quick visual of your disk space.

Spacemonger

Each file is a box– the bigger the box, the bigger the file. (The display above is from a drive I use for video editing. Converting those VHS tapes of our wedding to DVD has taken up most of the drive.)

There are two versions of SpaceMonger. The new version can do more, such as display your drive information with graphs and charts. However, it is a trial version; it costs $20 to use it after 30 days.  I’m just using the free version.  It is one little file that can run from a USB flash drive so you can check any computer you want (well any Windows computer, sorry Macs and Linux users).

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