October 2011 | Saw Wiki

Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was faced with a project that could best be implemented with SharePoint, but I lacked experience, hence this book. It is an introductory book that presumes no foreknowledge of the subject and leads the reader incrementally through the features of SharePoint. The enclosed CD contains an eBook and the...

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation 2010 Step by Step is a typical entry in the Microsoft Step-by-Step series, a great guide for the novice who enjoys literal, step-by-step instruction. The book is less suitable for more advanced users or as a reference.To follow along with the exercises, access to a Sharepoint...

Teachers Discovering Computers: Integrating Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom (Shelly Cashman) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book has helped me in my class a great deal. It starts with the basics and goes forward. You can even learn some technologies that you did not know about and some that you know about and had not thought to use in the classroom in that way. You will learn the correct terms for computer parts and...

Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)People no longer just search for information on the web. Now they provide information, too. These people include our students. The world has changed; students have changed, and traditional schools are no longer up to the task of educating young people for the future.This is the argument of the book Web...

Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Intended to be an introduction and guide to the application of social network analysis (SNA) to the realm of social media, readers interested in how we can use methodologies of SNA and mathematical applications of graph and networking theory, to analyze the social media networks that form when individuals...

Full Black: A Thriller (Scot Harvath) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)With "Full Black", Thor pays off the promises found in "Foreign Influence" and delivers a thinking man's thriller. There's plenty of action, military insight, and even more action - but there's also a cogent political, social, and economic story woven into the fabric of the book. Taking a step back and...

Rules of Civility: A Novel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If a novel could win an award for best cinematography, this would take home the gold. Amor Towles's sophisticated retro-era novel of manners captures Manhattan 1938 with lucid clarity and a silvery focus on the gin and the jazz, the nightclubs and the streets, the pursuit of sensuality, and the arc of...

MediaWiki Skins Design: Designing attractive skins and templates for your MediaWiki site Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I wish I had this book when I first set out to design a MediaWiki skin for my own wiki. It would have saved me so much time and trouble. Nothing like this existed to my knowledge when I set out to make my skins. Documentation is often the weakest link in the open source community. This book fills an...

The New Edge in Knowledge: How Knowledge Management Is Changing the Way We Do Business Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I found this book because I know about APQC and their record with knowledge management. (The authors run APQC's KM research) APQC has done A LOT of research of all of the best companies out there with KM. These companies work with APQC--no secondary research. And to see that research had meant being...

Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Reinventing Project based learning by Susie Boss and Jane Krauss is a well organized compendium of journalism and communication on the leading edge of current technology trends. They have used the most current Web 2.0 trends of communication and collaboration on the web. The book is a great snapshot...

Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server For Dummies Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you're business just decided to get Mac Servers, or you decided to get a Mac Mini server for your home, this book will surely get you started. I'm in the IT industry (mainly deal with Windows Servers), and even had a Windows Home Server (WHS)for home, but recently I've been slowly changing my business...

Moodle Teaching Techniques: Creative Ways to Use Moodle for Constructing Online Learning Solutions Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)William Rice, in Moodle Teaching Techniques, has created a resource that goes beyond the basic "keystroke and click directions" provided by many introductory manuals. Rice provides a variety of practical suggestions for teachers and trainers and avoids the discussion of technical issues which are often...

Build a Website for Free (2nd Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is awesome! I am currently trying to create my first website, and have had ZERO training in this area. I was considering taking a college course in web development, but after reading this book there is no need! I learned more in this book than I did in several of my undergrad classes :) Most...

Now You See Her Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)What a fun book! The mega-bestselling team of James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge have whipped up a woman-on-the-run story that's perfect summer reading. Nina Bloom is drawn back into her murky past by a series of unfortunate events, and forced to confront the bad guys who almost destroyed her long...

Leading 21st-Century Schools: Harnessing Technology for Engagement and Achievement Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read this book for as required reading for an Instructional Technology Leadership graduate class that I am enrolled in. As a future elementary special education teacher, this is not a book that I would typically seek out. However, I think this book is possibly more useful for an individual like myself,...

The Paris Wife: A Novel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)At the end of Ernest Hemingway's memoir, A Moveable Feast , he writes of his first wife, Hadley Richardson, "I wish I had died before I loved anyone but her." After their divorce, Hemingway marries three more times, each one prompt to follow, like serial wives. This is the story of the woman that loved...

Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning (Essential Tools Resource) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is the fourth Jane Bozarth book that I've purchased so clearly I'm a fan. The writing is clear and to the point; well-researched and includes numerous personal examples. Most importantly this book is chock full of practical advice. Jane tackles Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, Wikis, and other tools discussing...