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Chemistry Students Building Delicious Link Collections (February 6, 2005 01:36 PM)
It is re-assuring when a faculty member investigates a new technology and runs with it. I got a recent email from Liz Dorland, chemistry faculty at Mesa Community College, and maybe one of 7 people in our district who read this blog (You are never famous in your own country,... «more»
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When Using the Web is the Reflex (February 4, 2005 11:48 AM)
Does anyone still look up number, business names in a big thick yellow pages phone book? Is that still the first reflex when a net connected computer is in reach? Two recent observations indicate that for many folks, not just techies, but Jane and Joe Citizen, the web is becoming... «more»
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Bless You, Google (January 19, 2005 05:49 PM)
Google has spoken: Web links tagged with rel=nofollow shall not get PageRank. A grand rejoicing has been heard across the land. Well, at least from my office. From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our... «more»
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Hero's Journey Project Desperately Needs Web Programming/Design Update (January 9, 2005 10:28 PM)
Help! I am in search of someone, some benevolent group, maybe a web design/development class project, willing to do an overhaul of a writing site that very much needs an update. Is this a lot to ask for? I just lack the time and resources to do it myself, and... «more»
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For Computer Games Let's Hear it for the Underdogs (And Another Long Tail?) (January 8, 2005 10:04 AM)
Here is a CDB "web good dog" nod to "Home of the Underdogs" a site devoted to preserving "underrated" computer games many, but not all of the being "ambandonware" or titles no longer available: Home of the Underdogs is a non-profit site dedicated to the preservation and promotion of underrated... «more»
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How Refreshing... Anders is GIVING money (to Tsunami Victims) For Blogging (January 4, 2005 11:47 PM)
Anders is doing something link worthy- offering to dotate $1 for every blogger who posts a list of relief agencies and posts it on a public blog. That's right, just post some links and/or make your own dontation, blog about it, and he chips in to the relief fund. I'd... «more»
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More Free, Open Text (December 29, 2004 11:22 PM)
In addition to interesting initiatives such as WikiBooks to publish free content, comes this interesting announcement from the giant Internet Archive: International Libraries and the Internet Archive collaborate to build Open-Access Text Archives Today, a number of International libraries have committed to putting their digitized books in open-access archives, starting... «more»
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Holy Sweet Updates! Mac OXxxxxxx (December 23, 2004 12:24 PM)
In the last 2 hours I experienced a computer religious experience. I opened the box for my new G4 laptop, connected a firewire cable from it to my old laptop, and then watched in awe as the entire content, applications, and set up were transferred over. It was 100% smooth... «more»
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More Feedback: Addy's Designs (December 20, 2004 09:11 AM)
Wow, bonus feedback. This is from someone who has used our free jClicker Slide Show template to customize and use for showing off their model design and fabrication work: Alan, I just upload my personal portfolio on the net that I built my self. I am so happy with it.... «more»
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Reviving the Bag of URLs (December 17, 2004 11:14 AM)
I've been collecting worthy and interesting web sites for almost as long as I can remember, heaping them up in piles on the floor. Actually, we have a site called the Bag of URLs where I post and share them-- this started back in 1996 primarily as a selfish... «more»
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(Meaningful) Feedback Makes the Heart Grow Warmer (December 6, 2004 09:21 AM)
I've written before about the sheer joy of getting feedback on a now 11 year old online Writing HTML tutorial.... see [1] [2] [3], but still get a warm feeling with emails like this one that arrived yesterday: I have read this material for one month (Writting HTML). I think... «more»
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For My Holiday List (November 22, 2004 09:54 PM)
I'll take one of these, please. You can have a lot of faith in the sensible writing of Danny Goodman, who long ago for me threw all kinds of new light on HyperCard, and later JavaScript... My job in this book is to translate the gobbledygook spouted by all sides... «more»
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Try Some A9 Sauce On That Next Web Search (November 16, 2004 02:23 AM)
I give credit to "Thomas" , a participant in one my recent workshops at Manukau Institute of Technology here in Auckland, NZ for turning me on to a new search site- A9. It is a whopper. It's been about a Google years since I got interested or even raised an... «more»
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Wired's "Rip. Sample. Mash. Share." Yeah, Right! (November 9, 2004 04:35 AM)
Hmmm, The November 2004 issue of Wired has the goods on the notion of "Rip-Mix-Feed" line of thought. The magazine includes an audio CD with music specifically with Creative Commons licenses for ripping and mixing, and even a few are further licensed for sampling and commercial use. I've yet... «more»
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The Kiwi Workshop Brigade (November 9, 2004 04:24 AM)
I'm about halfway through my three week visit to Auckland New Zealand for an ambitious series of workshops at several schools here, and am bouncing between my regular CogDogBlog and its flipped over variant here CogDog(kiwi)Blog as well as two (or more) flickr sites. I may be losing track of... «more»
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Flickr Tags to The Next Level: Related Tags (November 4, 2004 08:11 PM)
The tagging features of flickr have taken the next step- elevating results of a display of shared photo tags to other relavant tag sets (see tag relatedness features). For example, the flickr wide tags for where I am right now to more specific results as well as related topics. How... «more»
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EDUCAUSE Croquet Project (October 21, 2004 09:41 AM)
This poster session demo was probably the coolest thing I have seen here at the EDUCAUSE 2004 conference. It is so cool I do not think I can describe it, See the Croquet Project WHAT IF... ...we were to create a new operating system and user interface knowing what we... «more»
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EDUCAUSE: "Universal Design and the Web: Strategies and Techniques" (October 20, 2004 01:01 PM)
A solid session by Terry Thompson with University of Washington's National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education on the concept if Universal Design for web content. (excuse the post-blogging-- the wireless in the session room is not there or off the map). The materials and the resources on the... «more»
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Toogle Retro Back to ASCII Art? Or Not? (October 17, 2004 06:35 PM)
Toogle takes a twist and strong copy of Google's Image search except rather than return images scraped from web pages, it returns a visual representation of the search words made entirely out of text. it harkens back to the old monochrome terminal days of ASCII art. But this is way... «more»
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Ocotillo Spotlight on Media Services (October 15, 2004 07:49 AM)
Another arm of our Ocotillo is the Spotlight on Instructional Technology where we try and highlight once a month an interesting use of technology at each of our colleges. We ask a rep from each college's technology group to provide text and photos for a story, but sometimes it just... «more»
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McLuhan On a Dime (October 9, 2004 09:14 AM)
Today I picked up a copy of Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. I found it in a thrift store in the small town of Pine, Arizona. It set me back 10 cents. For another dime I got a book from the mid 1970s full of funny predictions... «more»
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Internet Scout Spots Our FlipSite (October 8, 2004 05:54 PM)
Their vision is far and reaching at the Internet Scout- I've been getting their reviews of web sites for at least 5 years. I just got a notice that they recently featured a blurb on one of our sites, the Interactive FlipSite-- this made me laugh since I think we... «more»
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Holy Meta Data! Flickr Strikes Again (October 4, 2004 09:53 PM)
Wow, a side benefit to the iPhoto to flickr plugin is that it grabs the metadata iPhoto stores for the images, as I noticed images such as the giant Fred Flinstone I had uploaded this was had been (correctly) identifies as having been taken with an Olympus 4040 digital camera.... «more»
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Interview by iChat (October 3, 2004 08:13 PM)
My editor was pressuring me. I had stalled on my next technology article for the Fall 2004 issue of our publication, the mcli Forum. I had waited too long to do interviews with some faculty (there are some coo, things some folks are doing with teaching GPS... maybe in the... «more»
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Mickey Has Left The House (September 29, 2004 03:19 PM)
Please excuse our regularly scheduled blogging for a sad announcement. Today we had to put down my labrador retriever, Mickey, normally the dog on the banner image for this blog. As warm and affectionate he was with humans, this dog had a strange aggressive streak towards other dogs. Last Spring,... «more»
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iPhoto to Flickr to MT (What a Cool Trip)! (September 27, 2004 12:17 PM)
flickr foto P8181355.JPGavailable on my flickr Rest a Bit on the "Restbit Bench", Santa Maria Springs, Hermit Trail, Grand Canyon I just posted this photo to my flickr account using a nifty plugin for iPhoto (found via Tim Lauer). Basically, one can select one or more photos from your... «more»
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Even South American Volcanos Have Wireless (September 26, 2004 05:00 PM)
Wireless technology spreads far and wide. A recent EurekAlert came my way (somewhere in the techie/gadget RSS feeds in my reader) that describes the use of wireless sensors to monitor the activity on Tungarahua in Ecuador (this one is for you, Michelle ;-): A rumbling South American volcano has gone... «more»
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The Sheer Ecstasy of Feedback From Afar (September 9, 2004 09:38 PM)
Yesterday I was listening to a Electronic Portfolios Virtual Community of Practice chat session that swam around on the issues of "Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants" and motivators for students to engage in eport activity. On reflection, I think the group under estimates the sheer power of having a personal... «more»
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DirectorWeb at Ten (August 30, 2004 07:11 AM)
In another of our self-serving web celebrations, August 2004 marked the 10th year since we created the DirectorWeb, a resource site for users of Macromedia Director. We have an irregular scrapbook of the site showing some its evolution-- this was an early lesson on that in the rush to... «more»
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Week of Digital Storytelling Workshop (August 10, 2004 01:34 PM)
I'm spending the bulk of this week helping out at a 40 hour "learnshop" our office sponsors for faculty, this one is on Bringing Digital Storytelling to the Classroom (ingore the June dates, this was so popular it has been repeated). Facilitators Linda Hicks and Rachel Woodburn have been co-teaching... «more»
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URL-ing it your way to easy audio, video clips- John Udell on Hypermedia and Blogging (August 8, 2004 09:42 AM)
Sometimes in the RSS grazing you zoom quickly past something that just has a tiny spark, and it registers- this might be big. I had that sensation upong finding this O'Reilly article from uber uber geek John Udell, Prime-Time Hypermedia: In the course of trying to transform my blog from... «more»
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Stephen Blogs then Spammers Mob (July 27, 2004 06:08 PM)
I hold Stephen Downes as the uber edu-blogger- and givne his following, when he mentions one of our sites like he did today, the comments come flying in, the Trackback meter spikes... and as an un-intended sign of the ripples in the net, the spammers swarm in like a bunch... «more»
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A Love Affair with Blogs (July 21, 2004 04:17 PM)
A faculty member I am nudging into blogging shared this beautiful essay about blogging, Show Me Your Context, Baby: My Love Affair with Blogs by Kate Baggott. I would try to summarize, but this award winning essay says it all: Show me your context, baby. I already know the world... «more»
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Todd Steps in with the First Feed2RSS New Style (July 21, 2004 02:28 PM)
At least someone out there is reading my drivel. Todd Slater responded to the call for CSS Bonsai Gardens and quickly shared a new style available for anyone, "ZanestatefeedsYahoo". I added some tweaks that allow me to share a demo of what this new feed looks like. Check it out!... «more»
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Fugu Rocks sFTP- better than the Captain, The Dud, The Truck, The Duck (July 14, 2004 03:04 PM)
More and more I have needed a Mac OSX SFTP client for moving web content to various servers- we have knocked off open FTP on all of our web servers, and I need it now for loading content to SourceForge. Pity that my long friend Fetch, used since the early... «more»
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FlipSite: 5, 6 years of Coin Flip Simulations (July 12, 2004 09:19 AM)
I just cleaned up a bug in a golden oldie web site, and it is playing music again. The Interactive FlipSite was created so long ago I cannot remember exactly for sure, at least before 1998. The purpose was to create a site to illustrate simple probability for basic mathematics... «more»
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XPlana Resurrected (July 6, 2004 03:52 PM)
A month a go I barked rather severely about the disappearance of XPlana's blog -- I thought there was a comment but maybe it was a private email from someone there (?? my brain is mush, I cannot recall who it was) that fessed up that links to the new... «more»
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Real Heros (July 3, 2004 08:00 AM)
I am enjoying the last leg of a nice long vacation at our cabin in the pine forests near Strawberry, Arizona. Not unique in the west or elsewhere in the world, we are in the ninth year of a drought, and the forests are bone dry. Just 10 miles to... «more»
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Nice... Timeline Creator Tool (June 18, 2004 03:11 PM)
Just saw this at the NMC 2004 5 minutes of Fame- a nifty app for creation of interactive timelines- presentation is via Flash (of course), but data driven by XML. Created by the Center for Educational Resources at Johns Hopkins, the Timeline Creator is a freebie for downloading and provides... «more»
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Late for the Blog at NMC 2004 (June 18, 2004 02:29 PM)
Sigh, the dog has been a lazy conference blogger, too much scenery in Vancouver, good food and drink, to have enough energy to continually blog the sessions, Fortunately, others are feverishly at it, see the blog aggregator created by Stephen Downes. NMC continues to he my favorite confence for the... «more»
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Why Not Let the Machines Read to Us? (June 11, 2004 10:04 PM)
James Farmer has shared an interesting idea of building a collection of audio "readings" of articles, and Stephen Downes has taken the idea and ran it as an online audio jukebox. I'm not much of an avid reader of academic articles, so I let is slide into the "neat idea... «more»
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Diana Oblinger Ocotillo Presentation: Breezed Version Adds Punch, Value to PPT (June 4, 2004 08:12 AM)
Philosophical question: If a presentation falls in the woods, and there is no one there, does it make a sound? Or for that matter, if you miss a conference presentation, does an abstract, a paper, or even the PowerPoint itself really provide information (worth the weight, er... wait, of the... «more»
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Hey, Not So Icky- Inside Blackboard Lurks a Wiki (May 26, 2004 03:57 PM)
Thanks to a friend inside Blackboard, I got a peek a few weeks ago at a Building Block (plug-ins for Blackboard) that provides a wiki functionality inside the Blackboard environment. I'd put up some screen shots, but the Bb Showcase site seems to be offline right now. What was interesting... «more»
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"Pam Te" Project: Laptops to Chiapas (May 19, 2004 04:28 PM)
My friend and colleague Donna Rebadow, teacher extrordinaire at Paradise Valley Community College, is spearheading an effort at "Bridging the Digital Divide". As the Pam Te Project, she is hoping in June to travel to Chiapas Mexico, with a load of donated used laptops to support the education of Mayan... «more»
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Ideal Use of Internet Technology: Turning The Pages (May 11, 2004 11:43 AM)
(yes, something not related to spam) I had seen and recommended before the British Library's Turning the Pages site, but was recently reminded of it in an email exchange. To me this is one of the prime examples of what the Internet can provide- a rich interactive experience with a... «more»
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mcli Forum Spring 2004 (May 10, 2004 09:50 AM)
Just posted the web version of our once per semester publication, the mcli Forum which our office has been publishing in print and paper since 1993 (before 2000 it was the Labyrinth-Forum). We have a mixture of faculty, guest, and our own staff authored articles that highlight teaching, learning, assessment,... «more»
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Blogs and RSS WebQuest (May 7, 2004 06:32 AM)
Nice.... "Blogs and RSS- Tools for Creating, Collecting, and Sharing Ideas Online" , presented as a WebQuest: "Learn about tools that will forever change the way you gather information online and separate the online publishing from the technical hurdles typically associated with running a web site" This has your basic... «more»
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Teaching Wiki (Now there's the beef!) (May 5, 2004 10:16 PM)
Joe Moxley, English faculty at the University of South Florida created Teaching Wiki, rolling with a good set of examples and specific ideas of how teachers and students might (and are) using wikis: Teaching Wiki aspires to be a community for college-level faculty. We imagine our primary audience to be... «more»
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Our Motto (May 5, 2004 01:12 PM)
And now for something completely irrelevant, but dear our heart (see our blog top tagline): Found at Red Ferret's Dog Blog by way of Smartmobs. But what serendipity again. The Red Ferret Journal is rich with images and cool toys. Better furl it now. The Ferret is a weblog which... «more»
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10 Years of Writing HTML Tutorial (May 1, 2004 11:58 PM)
Sometime recently we passed another milestone in the 10th year of continuous web presence by our Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction. In Spring of 1994 we were doing support for faculty at South Mountain Community College in helping them get started with a local "center" for teaching, learning, and... «more»
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Quick Quick Web- Wiki's Explained in Plain English (May 1, 2004 07:08 AM)
Over at Common Craft, you can now find Wikis Described in Plain English: You may have seen the word “wiki” used to describe a website used by a group to collaborate. My intent with this post is to describe wikis and the basics of how they work- in plain English.... «more»
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PopSci- A Magazine with Print TrackBacks (April 21, 2004 11:39 PM)
For the plane flight reading from Phoenix to San Francisco, I grabbed a copy of Popular Science (the last time I read it was a preview of a new TR7, "the Shape of Things to Come"). I thought it interesting that column right under the letters to the editors reads:... «more»
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An Aussie Park Named (Almost) After Us.... err... Before Us (April 15, 2004 06:33 AM)
Some folks Down Under apparently have honored us by naming a park (almost) after CogDogBlog. Colleague Michael Coghlan writes from Adelaide of "Cobdogloa Station Caravan Park": The Cobdogla Station Caravan Park is a privately owned caravan park nestled on the backwaters adjacent to the River Murray in the Riverland of... «more»
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The Serendipitic Web: Google Defines to Biff to A Fallen Tomahwak (March 25, 2004 10:36 PM)
Forgot the semantic web, I have bumped into (again) the serendipitic web, the place you find things not be slick relationships, but just blind, frivolous stumbling. My RSS feed pile led me to James Farmer's pleased post of stumbling Google into what he liked as a definition of RSS. While... «more»
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More on Maricopa Bloggers (March 16, 2004 02:26 PM)
This slipped off my "to-do" list, and fell into the crevice behind my desk ;-) Back in February, I mentioned our Online Learning Group meeting where we had some local demos of how some of our faculty are starting to use weblogs. Well, I forgot to come back and post... «more»
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How News Travels on the Net (Like Driving Directions from Some Yahoo?) (March 16, 2004 11:45 AM)
Found at and hereby atriibuted to elearnspace comes this beautful grpahics and post from Stephen VanDyke on How News Travels on the Internet: I read the Wired article Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious, and thought it was informative. But it seemed to be lacking the big picture view of how... «more»
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WaterField Designs Novel Concept: Excellent Laptop Bags and Personal Service (March 9, 2004 11:44 AM)
Of course you can pick up a $20 bag at OfficeMax for your laptop, and end up with the same one as every other cheapskate on the plane playing solitaire on with their ThinkPad, with zippers that bust, too many stupid pockets, and just no protection for your investment of... «more»
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Breeze-- A Mighty Wind-- But the Audio Editing Blows (March 6, 2004 11:14 AM)
Tuesday is my keynote presentation at the NMC Sipring 2004 Online Conference - register now to tune into "Mysteries Revealed! Inside the Maricopa Learning eXchange". For this presentation I, ahem, went well over the suggested length of 20 minutes, to more than 50 (!) but it covers a lot of... «more»
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Gone to the Dogster: Dog-jects, Doggie Meta-Data?? (February 12, 2004 09:26 AM)
UIh-oh, I am going to be busy now. From Ben Hammersley by way of Stephan Downes (who is a cat-person) comes a reference to Dogster ( "catster.com" is registered but no site is there!). Welcome to Dogster ...where every dog has a webpage. Dogster lets you view and save photos... «more»
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Furl Those URLs (February 3, 2004 04:33 PM)
Just took a quick at Furl, a new web site for organizing bookmarks centrally (tip of the blog hat to Seb). The concept is not new at all, but I have found most of these sorts (e.g. BackFlip) too tedious to maintain. It's gotta be simple. Bookmarks/favorites in web browsers... «more»
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We Got Blogs - Maricopa Faculty Demos Friday (February 3, 2004 12:00 PM)
On its own, blogging is nicely permeating among some of our faculty. At this Friday's Ocotillo Online Learning Group meeting, we have 4 demos of different ways weblogs are currently in use at Maricopa. A brief preview for those who cannot be at Phoenix College Friday...... «more»
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Chasing Down the CSS "Peek-a-boo" Bug (December 17, 2003 11:26 PM)
There are a few threads to this story. I had seen an odd thing on one of our new XHTML designed web sites-- this one uses an HTML <ul> list and CSS for rollover effects and graphic-looking buttons for the navigation. In Internet Explorer 6 (and then reports came in... «more»
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See the Pictures of 'Net Pioneers (December 15, 2003 09:09 PM)
No centerfolds but... for those that enjoy the history of how the Net unfolded, if you could not get enough of "Where the Wizards Stayed Up Late" (a great read by the way), check out "The Faces in Front of the Monitors"-- this is an alphabet listing of those wizards,... «more»
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"The Long After Life of Simulation Software: Hidden Agenda" (December 12, 2003 06:52 AM)
Some folks are rather big on the use of games and simulations for learning. So were we.. back in 1995. Here is another article from our Fall 2003 issue of the mcli Forum. In "The Long After Life of Simulation Software: Hidden Agenda", we interviewed Jim Gasperini who had created... «more»
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PhotoBlogging with Buzznet (December 10, 2003 07:33 AM)
I have a pent for photography. It was the last elective I took as an undergrad, and if it were earlier, I would have taken a different career path. Blogging is great, but there are some neat niches for other flavors. Take "photo blog". I recently stumbled along via legendary... «more»
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"Denounce Newswire: All the News that Never Happened" (December 6, 2003 09:07 AM)
Satire is a high form of art. (that was supposed to be satirical). Someone once told me, and I believed them, that satire comes from an ancient word that meant "to cut flesh." Well, that means that DENOUNCE NEWSWIRE: All the news that never happened is the king fleshcutter for... «more»
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IndyJunior... Where in the World Was I? (November 20, 2003 03:12 PM)
IndyJunior Flash Mapping Module is a nifty Flash application from Bryan Boyer... By editing your own XML file, IndyJunior generates a dynamic map of places you have been or are planning to go to, and IJ features a configuration tool to customize the map appearance and features. Nodes can be... «more»
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Powerful Web Bulletin Board: phpBB (oh and it is free!) (November 16, 2003 10:08 PM)
I was recently looking for a package to implement a discussion board for a group project, and luckily came across phpBB :: Creating Communities. phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful... «more»
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Legacy of Old Code: Software Old Enough to Get a Drivers License (October 24, 2003 11:05 AM)
Following up on my nostalgia for ten years on the web, I also reflected on what was likely the first educational software I ever created, back in 1987. As a Geology grad student at Arizona State University with a few programming courses as an undergrad, I was handed the opportunity... «more»
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Our Web Tenth Anniversary (Aluminum Gifts, please) (October 22, 2003 11:38 PM)
Somewhere in the hustle and bustle of this month I missed a significant milestone. A tenth anniversary worthy of a gift of aluminium (this would be nice but this will do) as tradition goes. It was sometime in October 1993 at our Ocotillo Technology Showcase ("Expose Yourself to Technology"). Demonstrations... «more»
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Those Wild Wacky Norwegians (October 17, 2003 10:19 PM)
Sometimes you can click yourselves into the most fun, obscure, un-googled parts of the web, such as Rune Johansen's portfolio. Pure serendipitous fun. Okay, the music grates, but the pictures I gather are pictures of the home life of people in the far flung parts of Norway. There are great... «more»
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Somebody's There at Nobodyhere.com (October 7, 2003 06:40 AM)
It is likely impossible to describe in text NobodyHere... It is a site to explore messages, relationships of words, metaphors, and variety of interesting gadgets. "How does this work?" Just click. All pages are connected. "Why?" Because I like to express myself using animation, text and programming. The site has... «more»
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"Not Just an Education... A Career!" (October 7, 2003 06:07 AM)
Ouch, I just hurt mysefl laughing... The folks at J-Walk blog have done it again. Find out all about Spam University, " the world's top-rated educational institution for the growing spam industry." Under Admissions: Spam University receives thousands of applications every month. Regretfully, we can't accept everyone who applies. Consequently,... «more»
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Ratchet Up (Digital Arts and Culture Blog) (October 6, 2003 09:17 PM)
Wow, these TypePad blogs just continue to pop up, all nicely organized. Here is Ratchet Up "is John Schott & friends, featuring links, often daily, to something of interest in digital culture and the arts." These are not just your typical blog echoes from elsewhere, each story is originally written... «more»
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Web Design Color Schemes with Natural Roots (October 5, 2003 08:27 PM)
A nicely done article on looking at your web pages with a different mind-set. Check out Boxes and Arrows: Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design. Typicallly B&A has some high brow articles, e.g. "Semiotics: A Primer for Designers", stuff for people labled "information architects", but now and... «more»
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A Blog-volution (September 25, 2003 04:53 PM)
Anyone RSS-ing or surfing the education weblog scenes (e.g. Weblogg-ed) know that educator weblogs are catching on as a quiet revolution. And it is happening here in our system, a quiet revolution thaking place in and under the radar. Out at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, their home-grown eportfolio system features a... «more»
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Hey (Hic)... this Merlot is tasting better... (September 10, 2003 09:58 AM)
Okay, this dog is going to anger management. After our recent barking on Sipping MERLOT's RSS Feeds: Is this Boone's Farm or Dom Perignon?, we enjoyed some good discussion with some MERLOT insiders. The bottom line is that MERLOT still has a fabulous wealth of intstructional resources, and should be... «more»
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Blogging Across the Curriculm (August 25, 2003 01:09 PM)
From Quinnipiac University comes this gem: Blogging Across the Curriculum. Pattie Belle Hastings from the Interactive Design Department shares this resource that rose from her 2002 experiments on using student weblogs as alternatives to paper design jounrals. Her site provides a nice overview of blogging, how to blog, the role... «more»
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live blog updates: the World as a Blog (August 20, 2003 06:46 AM)
Wow, a variation on the BlogChatter, this nifty site shows, in near real-time, the World as a Blog... Real time and updating display of weblog postings, around the world... Weblogs.com + geocoding + RSS But what is it? You see a world map, and as weblogs entries are posted around... «more»
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Blog in Donnesbury-ville (August 10, 2003 03:35 PM)
Fresh off the press! See a take on blogging in Doonesbury. None of us would troll for search engines, would we? <tiphat>found via RSS aggregator feed from the Shifted Librarian</tiphat>... «more»
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MT Weblog as Courseware (August 4, 2003 11:42 AM)
Simply wonderful. RIT professor Liz Lawley is doing some great things by (a) trying; and (b) sharing here efforts in using movabletype as courseware. A version of her Fall 2003 Introduction to Multimedia courseblog is available for peeking (her own mamamusings blog is worth looking at just to see what... «more»
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NaDa: Does Nothing for Everybody (July 16, 2003 06:01 AM)
On an extremely light note... hurry now and download your copy of NaDa, only 1k! "Nada does nothing for everybody". Most products we see on the market want to increase our productivity, organize our screen joyfully or make wonders with our sound card, but NaDa™ does nothing. This is a... «more»
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Weblog Ethics (There is room for that, eh?) (July 13, 2003 09:34 PM)
As an excerpt from a new book on blogging, Rebecca Blood's Weblog Ethics is certainly timely. Especially given the current recess fighting over "de-publishing". But more than that, Rebecca's wisdom rings true as one of the early bloggers (see Rebecca's Pocket for may more gems) and is sound advice for... «more»
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Thanks IDBlog for Pointer on Adding Comments... (July 12, 2003 08:10 AM)
Thankls to Beth Mazur and her post on IDblog: Spotlighting comments that had the MovableType code for adding the excerpts of the 5 most recent comments to this blog, now visible on the right under the heading "Others Bark Back" Just another small way to bring bits of information from... «more»
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Best Legal Statement of the Month (June 16, 2003 12:37 PM)
The "obligatory legal" statement in the footer at Heather Champ's blog, harrumph! scared me enough. I would not mess with it ;-)... «more»
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QuickTopic and Quick Doc Review (June 5, 2003 06:02 AM)
Some very slick small tools that might be helpful as teaching tools (and other uses). You have to like something with the tagline "your free, preposterously easy instant discussion space" (almost as good as "software that doesn't suck") QuickTopics is a simple platform for web based brief discussions on a... «more»
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Blogs, RSS, Wikis ("Oh My") (May 22, 2003 07:17 AM)
Librarian David Mattison compiled this comprehensive , yet concise (is that possible) collection of resources for Blogs, RSS, and Wikis (gleaned from OLDaily).... «more»
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Tufte bullets PowerPoint (May 8, 2003 10:54 PM)
Oh this should be good- the supreme master of information density and visual displays takes a look at Mark Milliron refers to as "no power and no point".... Edward Tufte: The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint... «more»
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Why Teachers Don't Share... (May 8, 2003 10:38 PM)
This paper by Greg Webb (Open Training and Education Network, OTEN, New South Wales, Australia) is from 2000, but has always been hanging out in my bookmarks. Read more and see what Greg says about Why teachers don't share resources, and what we can do about it .... «more»
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