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DJ Stephen Mixes It Down

He’s hip but he may not be available to entertain at your cousin’s wedding… see how Stephen Downes’ voice, Powerpoints, and a little backbeat are set up smoothly in a 6 minute video crafted by Zach Chandler at Colby College: http://studio.colby.edu/people/zach/reusable_media_lg.mov It could be a whole new art form of compressing presentations to their bare […]

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Flickr Concentration

Mastercards with flickr uses the gazillion images found in flickr to create the familiar game of image matching. The site creator gives the nod to the version from Games For the Brain (a nice collection of stuff), but isn’t this really the old game of “Concentration”? Here is the game I played using a flickr […]

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Hey MLX Spammer

Some hapless two-bit kiddie spam roach has been spamming an old Maricopa Learning eXchange comments script (it should have been yanked long ago, that is my own hapless two-bit error)– it did not do anything but send out false notifications to the faculty in our system who have shared their ideas/projects in the MLX, and […]

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Sell Before It Hits 120

flickr foto A Bit More Resolutionavailable on my flickr No Photoshop fudging was done to generate this temperature! This is not that kind of scale… this dial is the temperature in my back yard in Phoenix, and actually the thermometer is shaded by a patio roof (though the cement wall likely bumps it up a […]

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Four Full Days at PSU

I am sitting here in Cincinnati, Kentucky (Yes, Ohio, the airport has left the state) waiting to go home after the 4 day intense almost boot camp experience of the EDUCAUSE Instructional Technology Leadership Program 2005. And the experience was more intense for the participants than us “faculty” presenters. The vagaries of air flight have […]

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Love WordPress

I love it- four spam roaches exterminated with one deft motion: Also quickly added the wplicense plug-in, an easy way to puff up your WP blog with a Creative Commons license, and it comes with a free whiff of AJAX!

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What’s That Wiki Doing in My ePortfolio?

Audree, the brilliant programmer behind the system used at Chandler-Gilbert Community College as well as the version we share with the rest of Maricopa is rolling out some exciting new features for this software. How about a wiki inside an ePort? Audree has rolled into the eport system a version of UseMod wiki. She just […]