Posts from ‘June, 2005’

Does anyone out there read/speak Irish? One recent message among the several thousand we get via our Writing HTML tutorial comes from a .ie domain email address, so I am guessing this is in Irish:
Fógra faoi Rúndacht agus Síniú Leictreonach: Tá an ríomhphost seo agus aon iatán a ghabhann leis rúnda agus tharlódh go mbeadh [...]

I had first stumbled into the J-Walk Blog a while ago, and remember it as a place that is oozing with sarcasm, right there from the byline:
Stuff That May or May Not Interest You
Wow, a real mission statement! I had first done the J-Walk with the first of three wickedly funny fake sites below. If [...]

Poking around the site, I found what is more or less some evolving documentation of the ITConversation software and recording process (that would said as “pro SESS” by by northern neighbors as a wiki document- see IT Conversations Wiki for things like AudioProcessing, IT Conversations in Education, File Formats, Encoders, Bit Rates [...]

Here is a quick summary of audio streams I have loaded/unloaded listened/skipped on my iPod. I hesitate to call them “podcasts” since I am manually downloading MP3 files and manually moving them on and off my Shuffle. All are found from ITConversations.
For what its worth, I typically use the auto fill mode to populate [...]

Yesterday I added two new mirror sites for Feed2JS, bringing the full list of mirrors to seven. The two new kids on the block include:

OpenGUI serving feeds from California
Astra Systems serving feeds from somewhere in the U.K.

All sites have been updated to the same functionality (latest update; al;l are listed as the full frenzy history) [...]

This has nothing to do with blogs, wikis, podcasts, learning objects, or anything technology related. Evidence to the contrary, much in life is not related to that stuff.
Yesterday I took a colleague to one of my favorite out of the way lunch spots, hidden away in a local industrial park area. It is a great [...]

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The Topavailable on my flickr

The end of the Kuli’ou’ou Ridge Trail marked by this sign, about 1700 feet higher than our starting point. The view behind it which should be the shoreline is masked by [...]

Since I am on the extreme margin of involvement of course management systems at Maricopa, I’ve not intensively followed the latest CMS stuff, but hear that Sakai is bubbling and there is even more spots of interest on the adoption of Moodle.
Leon at Y.uk? emailed about 2 new Moodle articles on his blog, “Innovative Practitioners [...]

A bit of back blogging from the opening plenary at the NMC 2005 Summer Conference, where for the second year in a row, Henry Jenkins provided a provocative and engaging opening session, this time:
“Media Literacy – Who Needs It?!!”
Henry Jenkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Much of the core thinking shaping media literacy education in American [...]

Beyond Words -reality of reading and writing in the 21st Century (closing plenary)
Stephanie Barish
If you are reading these words on paper or in an inert form on a screen, you are participating in our most enduring written form of communication. We’ll call it “plain text,” and it’s been essentially the same since Mesopotamia, through [...]