What a sad day it is when us old skool flickrites now have to wear the official uniform — just got my note from the principal: What this is referring to is those with flickr accounts had previously, on signing in to flickr, had to follow the extra “Psssss…” link to get to the 5% […]
And Then There Was One (Laptop)available on flickr Now that is a clean desktop! Over the weekend, I used the OS X migration assistant to move my files and music (a paltry 6 Gb) from the old iBook (vintage 2003) to a separate user account on my MacBook Pro. I have gone from Three laptops […]
Last week was long, I am sure there were 16 days crammed into it. This included flying to Atlanta for the EDUCAUSE/ELI conference, presenting twice on Monday, exiting early Tuesday to hop a flight to Dallas, and being part of a trio running a 3 day workshop. After a late Friday night arrival at home, […]
I’m biased towards Google Reader as my current tool for swimming through RSS feeds. That’s not to claim that My Reader is Better Than Yours, or My Reader Can Beat Up Your Reader. I like what I’m getting out of it, and it works for me. I’ve ignored the link for a while listed under […]
Small new feature for Google Personal Home page fans– If you use the module for displaying RSS feeds, in addition to getting headlines from your feeds, now you get expandable summaries as well. Just click the little plus sign, and stories expand, click again to collapse. Not earth shattering, and not that i use this […]
I’ve not been much of a blog coverage provider (or actually even much of a participant) at the EDUCAUSE ELI conference — since we had two presentations back to back Monday, I missed other sessions, and held more informal, liquid activities at the reception and hotel bar (Gardner, sorry we missed connecting!). I had to […]
I’ve already blogged a summary of our NMC Second Life presentation over at the Campus Observer, so in this lazy state, I am reblogging myself (hey, that ping kind of tickles!). The picture below is what we did to give the Second Life participants a snapshot of what the Real Life participants in Atlanta were […]
Our second half of an NMC double-header presentation at the ELI 2007 Annual Conference in Atlanta was the official release of the 2007 NMC Horizon Report. This is the 4th year of NMC’s report on emerging technologies for teaching, learning, and creative expression, and my biased opinion (2 years on the advisory board and now part of the team that produces it) is that it again sets the mark high for a practical look at new technologies.
And high it was. We were told to expect an audience of perhaps 60, so we prepped 100 handouts, but the room overflowed, people were taking the floor seats and extra chairs brought into the back. We were told later the fire marshall had capped the attendance at 175!
So, in NMC fashion we had to do somethings fun, different, and interactive for this presentation (one of many reasons I joined NMC). In years past, the report was ready in print for the ELI conference, but this year we squeezed a bit more editing time in by releasing the PDF version at the conference, and sending out the print ones in early February. The report is provided as a PDF with Creative Commons license so other organizations and individuals can print, reuse, share, etc. So previously people saw the report and knew then what the 6 horizon topics were, but this year we had a little bit of secrecy and fun to reveal the 6 topics.
Alexander‘s laws of Hotels is upheld- the bigger, the more expensive the hotel, the more troublesome and weak is the internet connectivity. Ditto for the CNN Omni. It seems as though they throttle upload speeds to selected sites- I ftp-ed a 25 Mb audio file in 2.5 minutes, but uploads to flickr get to 68k […]
Office Panoavailable on flickr For Ewan who asked politely for this…. This is a stitched panorama of my office dine in a pile of haste before leaving town for a cross country trip. I did a quick series of overlapping photos, and not even done nicely pivoted form a good central point, put turning from […]
