Grammarly for a Minute

31 Oct 2025 Leave a comment

by CharlesB in desktop publishing, DIIT Tags: ,

For about an hour, the grammar-correcting Chrome browser extension called “Grammarly.” was added to my computer.  It was removed, but it was a brutal hour of red lines appearing underneath every other word…

Design Program at the District Office

24 Apr 2025 Leave a comment

by CharlesB in design, desktop publishing, district office Tags:

The District 75 Office instituted a student-run program, “The Little Design Shop.” Look at all the interesting machines! I recognize the sewing machine (maybe!), but nothing else. Do you know what these machines do?

Print Test Page Showdown!

25 Jun 2024 Leave a comment

by CharlesB in desktop publishing, Macintosh, Windows Tags: ,

You asked for it, and we did it. A recent office printer purchase was the perfect scenario to do the Mac versus Windows Print Test Page Competition, i.e., to test out the “print test page” function on the Mac and Windows printer system settings. Do they return the same results?

We printed to the Toshiba e-Studio3525AC printer/copier.

The test results are in!

Which do you think is the winner?

Windows on the left, Mac on the right

In terms of simple color and design, nothing beats Mac. However, in terms of useful information, including website printer location, Windows wins!

Baby vs Bath water

15 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by CharlesB in Curriculum, desktop publishing Tags:

I recently brought up a box from the storage room and found old curriculum books, including a number of “Teacher-Created Materials, Inc” technology books. This one is entitled “Writing and Desktop Publishing on the Computer” (TCM#924). It was written by Terry Rosengart (who I actually knew from the DOE).

TCM

I think that every computer lab teacher had dozens of different titles, all of which tended to be quite wordy. Inside

I probably never even used mine in a classroom.