Buried Bones (Archive) for September, 2008
Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 20th, 2008 8:14 pm
What a Dumpling by cogdogblog posted 20 Sep ‘08, 8.09pm MDT PST on flickr
Just one piece of dinner at at JC’s restaurant in Shanghai
It’s been a whirlwind week for my first visit to Shanghai (an Asia while I am at it) to participate and speak at the Learning 2.008 Conference at the [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 18th, 2008 8:19 pm
Jeff Watching Jakes film Brian by cogdogblog posted 18 Sep ‘08, 8.54pm MDT PST on flickr
Learning 2.008 EduBloggerCon (Shanghai)
www.edubloggercon.com/Learning+2.008+Edubloggercon
Before the opening of the Learning 2.008 conference, a group of conference attendees and other local bloggers met up for breakfast and conversation about out favorite topic. Not only were there pictures and conversation, Jeff [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 17th, 2008 4:49 pm
Curious Beggar by cogdogblog posted 17 Sep ‘08, 5.16pm MDT PST on flickr
This little guy was curious about the gigapan I had set up to do this shot
gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9189
I gestured to take a picture and he smiled, then he stuck his hand out for change. Now I was stuck, except the only thing in [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 16th, 2008 3:38 pm
Fresh Delivery by cogdogblog posted 16 Sep ‘08, 1.06pm MDT PST on flickr
Old Town, Shanghai
Hello from here, a long way from there. It’s the second morning here in Shanghai, and my mind is already reeling, less so from the travel and wear and tear from the sardine transport of United Airlines Economy class, [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 14th, 2008 9:45 am
Headed for China 1.0 by cogdogblog posted 14 Sep ‘08, 10.36am MDT PST on flickr
Chinatown in San Francisco is always a fun place to "visit" but in a few hours I am headed for the real deal or China 1.0, boarding a plane at SFO that will teleport me directly (well 12 hours [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 10th, 2008 5:10 pm
Well, “anything” is loosely termed. I run about 6 different MediaWiki sites for the NMC, and I have to remind myself alot that the software is a huge black box (it works super) and I am pretty sure the things I have done tap maybe 8% of what it is capable of doing.
One of the [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 10th, 2008 5:08 pm
Doh! I wrote this two days ago and forgot to click publish! n00b!
It’s the first week of classes for the Connectivism and Connected Knowledge course and I am already lapsing behind. As a Massively Open Online Course, maybe I cna get lost in the crowd of 2000 gazillion students.
Would you believe a dog ate my [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 9th, 2008 12:18 am
Oh yeah, it does pay to give stuff away! Or at least to put half baked ideas “out there”. After just posting late last night about my crude 5 card flickr story demo I lamented the problems in code I had in easily getting random flickr photos from a given tag, John Krutsch emailed [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 8th, 2008 12:45 am
Wow are my PHP coding pencils dull, but I’ve had some fun last 2 nights getting them back (we’ll see how sharp they really). I have a really crude, ugly, unformatted demo of a tool I want to use later this month for a session at the Learning 2.008 conference. So I am asking (a) [...]
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Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this September 6th, 2008 10:02 am
Rashmi’s Vote Did Not Help by cogdogblog posted 6 Sep ‘08, 10.58am MDT PST on flickr
Sigh.
I did not win the MacBook Air in the Slideshare Best Presentation Contest, and did not even get close with what only I thought was clever as The Last PowerPoint.
And how sad for Guy Kawasaki, I don’t [...]
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