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KOINGO SOFTWARE LIBRARIAN PRO MACNow my wife is a Mac user through and through, but her school lives in the Windows world making Planbook ineligible for consideration.If you or your teaching friends are fortunate enough to work on the Mac side at school, I (via my wife) definitely recommend you take a look at Planbook. She loved the publish-to-web idea since her school already provides some digital records for parents to check from home, but I am sad to report that there was one killer deal-breaker that took the bounce out of my wife's step - Planbook is Mac-only. She was impressed with Planbook's feature set and how easy it was to start writing plans for multiple classes. To be honest, after a minute or two of poking around, she was absolutely thrilled. KOINGO SOFTWARE LIBRARIAN PRO SOFTWAREStill need paper versions? No sweat - Planbook can print out customized reports for students and administrators, great for handing out or posting in class.Since I am the farthest thing from a teacher, my wife graciously offered to give this software a whirl and share her thoughts. KOINGO SOFTWARE LIBRARIAN PRO DOWNLOADStudents, parents and administrators alike can then view the site, the daily lessons and download the files at their leisure. ![]() Teachers can plan out lessons for one or multiple classes for the week, month or year, attach files the students will need for homework and publish it all to the web via FTP or to a local folder. Designed and developed by Jeff Hellman, a 9th grade physics and science teacher, Planbook aims to do away with the clunky ways of writing lesson plans with paper by providing tools to plan, attach files, print, publish and search the digital way. While I wait for Assistants R Us to open in the Denver area so I can take some of the burden off my wife's high school English-teaching shoulders, educators of all kinds might be able to take some solace in Planbook from Hellmansoft. In an education world where parents make all the decisions and administration knows less about teaching than the students, teachers can use all the help they get. KOINGO SOFTWARE LIBRARIAN PRO MAC OS XAs to speculation on whether this could bring some of the wilder stuff like running Windows apps in Mac OS X without the need for the Windows OS or virtualization tools, I'll leave that to the tin foil hat enthusiasts in the audience.Thanks Adam ![]() Ultimately, if EFI support in Vista makes it easier for Apple to support running Windows on a Mac, this could likely yield even more sales from swtichers - especially those who need Vista for things like work or gaming. ![]() It could likely make the Boot Camp engineers' lives a lot easier, and while I know less about virtualization software like Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion, they might be able to sleep better at night as well. So what could it mean if Vista catches up to the EFI bandwagon? I'm not quite sure yet. ![]() At the official Windows Vista blog, Brandon LeBlanc has offered extensive details on what the focus of Service Pack 1 is, and while much of it is targeted at businesses and independent software vendors, an interesting section outlining some of the fundamentals mentions that support for the EFI booting standard is on its way (under the Introducing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 section there aren't any anchors I can link in this extensive post, so you'll have to search for that title or simply 'EFI').In their hype and marketing for Boot Camp, Apple makes a pretty big deal about Intel-based Macs supporting EFI while "Windows XP, and even Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS" (check the sidebar of the Boot Camp page). Rounding up on 9 months of Vista being on the market, Microsoft is of course at work on Service Pack 1 which is slated for an early 2008 release. ![]()
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