What should we be teaching?

There exists a plethora of opinions and theories on what we should be teaching in school. What should we teach our kids? These students will someday grow up and need to fend for themselves and run the country! Most people agree on the need to teach 'em math, reading, science, history, and now even some technology skills.

This article discusses some areas that are not often considered in the "formal" education realm. Personal Finance. Communication. Social Skills. Sales. Time Management.

Take a read at the article, come back here and let me know what you think.

I'm Back!

Actually I've been back from our Europe trip for quite sometime, but simply didn't post. It's one of "those" things y'know? Something you know that you "ought" to be doing, but kept skipping for one reason or another ... again and again. Like exercising, eating right, flossing, changing your oil, or pulling the weeds out of your yard. It you skip doing them only a little, no biggy. But if you skip it chronically, people notice and things can go ... bad.

So I'm back. I'll do my best to keep current. Just like exercising and flossing, it's easy to stop, but just as easy to get back going again.

So with no further delay, my current post:

What in the World of Education, Technology or General Geekiness has caught my attention at this time?

PDFs

Portable Document Format documents are a double edged sword. They are great because any computer can read them. Mac or PC. You only need to download FREE software (Adobe Reader) to read a PDF. The bad thing about PDFs is that, unless you have specialized ($) software you can't make one or edit one.

What I found:

Here is a link to a bunch of software that will help you with your PDF creation woes.

Here's another option PrimoPDF. Basically it acts like a printer. You choose it like a printer from your computer. When you "print" however, it doesn't come out of your printer, but instead creates a PDF. Most Mac applications have been doing this, built in, for years.

Another solution is PDFOnline. The concept here is to upload a document (Word, etc.) and they will email you the PDF version. Pretty cool!