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Skim is a PDF Reader and note-taker for OS X. Skim is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF.
While it's easy to produce content for a podcast with GarageBand and a microphone, approaching your recording like a broadcast professional will aid in creating a show that people will be eager to listen to again and again.
The Computer History Museum is the world's largest and most significant history museum for preserving and presenting the computing revolution and its impact on the human experience. Come and discover how computing became the amplifier for our minds and changed the way we work, live and play.
Jakob Nielsen's list of general (computer related) skills that should in his opinion be taught in elementary school.
"First-generation Electronic Computers (1937-1953)" This is the second chapter of a textbook I wrote and used to teach computer science at the Prospect Hill Academy Charter School. It covers the development of binary math through the cryptographic machines of WWII and into ENIAC and the UNIVAC.
"Up to and Including the Mechanical Generation." This is the first chapter of a textbook I wrote and used to teach computer science at the Prospect Hill Academy Charter School.
This story from the Chronicle for Higher Education does a good job of illustrating the conflict that often exists between academic Computer Science departments who want to teach computer science and the campus information technology organization who is responsible for keeping the network running and legal.
S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well. The markup used for the slides is very simple, highly semantic, and completely accessible. Anyone with even a smidgen of familiarity with HTML or XHTML can look at the markup and figure out how to adapt it to their particular needs. Anyone familiar with CSS can create their own slide show theme. It's totally simple, and it's totally standards-driven.