Posts from ‘June, 2005’

Do the same aesthetics that apply to traditional motion media (fil, tv) apply to web video?
Video for New Media: Developing the Aesthetic and Managing the Workflow Pacific Ballroom, Salon G Tools & Techniques
Intermediate Video production for the multi-media project is the art of adapting the decades old technology and aesthetic of television to [...]

The NMC – NLII Horizon Report in Practice: Five Snapshots from the Future
All The Horizon Project Virtual Community of Practice takes emerging technologies and identifies — and experiments with — symbiotic educational practices. How do these new tools and techniques fit into educational institutions? Can they make a difference in [...]

The morning session for Friday at the 2005 NMC Summer Conference was a combination of the Center for Excellence awards and the NMC special Five Minutes of Fame session.
The Center for Excellence are awarded to three institutions as a recognition for their efforts (we were fortunate to get on one 2003)- this year recognizing [...]

Friday session at NMC Summer Conference:
How can you have an impact on your campus? How do you know if you are succeeding? What strategies are other NMCs using to make an impact? At the 2005 NMC Directors’ Meeting in February, these questions were raised in a stimulating conversation about maximizing campus impact. [...]

This morning at the NMC Summer conference was my presentation on More Than Cat Diaries: Publishing With Weblogs… maybe it was the small room, but it was pretty full. I threw a whole lot of kitchen sinck at them. The gist of this was to address the dissmissive commonly uttered description of blogs as [...]

Start with a demo! Good move. Pachyderm project site
Wendy Shapiro (Case Western) showed a Pachyderm created “Exploring Soul Music” done with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Soul Music timeline done via Phone dial screen with screens by year. Gives world events for context, examples of music from Ray Charles and Chubby Checker. [...]

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Hanauma Bayavailable on my flickr

This awesome beach is the result of a volcanic crater blowing out a coral reef, and the ocean reclaiming it’s loss by breaching the wall of the crater, leaving this magnificent crescent beach– [...]

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Obligatory WIki Photoavailable on my flickr

Having landed at the Honolulu airport, I paid the computer technogeek’s homage to Ward Cunningham by taking the obligatory photo of the "Wiki Wiki" bus.

Wow, is Hawaii heavenly on what? And I [...]

Call me fickle, but despite some recent barking about the new social bookmark site Jots, I am romping back to del.icio.us for my primary bookmarking. Ttecnically, I am using my multi-bookmark tool to post to del.icio.us, Furl, and our Bag of URLs site… Furl since I have a big pile there not elsewhere, the “Bag” [...]

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Over Thereavailable on my flickr

Look Sani, there goes a cat! Get it!

Hanging out a few days in San Diego- here is my stepsom’s 130 pound lapdog, ‘Sani’, a sweeter than sugar Great Dane puppy.