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OpenOffice 2.0 is out, and it's a winner.

Inkscape

Are you a fan of Illustrator or scalable vector graphics in general? Are you also a fan of not being broke, while yet having powerful computing tools at your fingertips? Open source is your friend. Download Inscape here.

Open Source Content Management

The university that employs me could probably benefit greatly from the use of content management software. Usually, budget constraints put the kabosh on such well-intentioned suggestions from mere faculty. No more: Open source content management from Joomla! is here.

New Gimpshop!

At last, the new Gimpshop has been released and packaged in a tidy windows installer.

To know this software is to love it.

How to Make a Dynamic Rubric

After much bullying from the pedagogical elites, I've put my nose to the grindstone and cranked out a demo video explaining how to make a dynamic rubric of your own, not merely how to use one.

Active Rubrics

For several months I have been searching for a way to insert a dynamic rubric into a Word document, so that I can embed one into essays that I am grading. This month that project was on the backburner, however, as I focused on streamlining how I use Word's internal macros. As it turns out, the two projects complemented each other nicely, and the macros have simplified the use of a dynamic rubric considerably. The instructions are a little lengthy, but the results can be viewed in this flash demo.

Update (11/11/05): Here is a demo video explaining how to make a dynamic rubric.