I have come across a new, and less desirable mode of blogging. Someone who just grabs something, tosses it on the glass, and leans their thumb on the green “copy” button of the Xerox machine (I thought of writing this as a “ditto” metaphor but would have lost most of my slim audience). Yeah something […]
From Iceland to the Big Screen in Moose Jaw by cogdogblog posted 20 Nov ’08, 12.25pm MST PST on flickr We used Skype today for me to present live from Iceland to a group of teachers gathered for a workshop with Dean Shareski in Saskatchewan. Through Skype video and Dean flipping Firefox tabs with me, […]
photo credit: Alexis Deadly Accepting invitations to join the “Sexy Vampires”, “Naked Wonders”, or “Canon EF 17-40mm 1:4L USM” flickr groups, not to say they are uninteresting, but…. Even looking at much less considering following “gift_registry”, “Quicken Loans”, “Rentmyhouse4derby”, or “secretfatloss” on Twitter. Yeah, that’s my crowd. Yep. Logging into Facebook. Why? People who never […]
Last night for me here in Iceland I had an enjoyable time Skype videochatting with Chrissy’s class in Bangkok Thailand. I got to meet Chrissy in September at the Learning 2.008 conference in Shanghai; she is on her own adventure in moving this year to Thailand to teach at an international school. It was early […]
More Amazing iPhone Music Making: ZooZBeat by cogdogblog posted 18 Nov ’08, 4.08pm MST PST on flickr Another "wow" for an iPhone app- ZoozBeat allows you to lay down "tracks" for different instruments- by touch, keyboard, or shake. The free version gives 2 background beats and 6 instruments; for a whopping $2.99 you get more […]
I’ve not written anything on a paper calendar or DayTimer for more than two years; my cal is on the clouds with Google Calendar– We have all of the NMC stuff using it on our enterprise set of GoogleApps, for individuals and several group/project ones, and I can access and schedule them with my typically […]
You’ve heard the declarations. Blogs are dead. 94% of them have not published in the last 120 days. I did not have time today to visit all 133 million blogs Technorati has been tracking since 2002. cc licensed flickr photo by john_curley But I have often marveled at the gems I find by random link […]
It is too late for Jim Groom and Tom Woodard who cinematicly presented warnings about zombies for the NMC Rock the Academy Symposium, but I missed a key resource for the zombie intrigued. How remiss to have not shared the Common Craft cult classic- Zombies in Plain English: There was so much there I did […]
Sometimes it can take months to answer a question; Robert, a colleague I met in Shanghai who teaches at Fudan University asked if I knew of any tools that would make it easy for his journalism students to generate their own mashups of data and maps. I did not have an answer then; I talked […]
Listen to the World Play Ocarina by cogdogblog posted 16 Nov ’08, 3.04pm MST PST on flickr I’ve already raved about Ocarina, the iPhone magic flute — a real instrument you can turn your phone into. But there’s more- activate the bottom menu bar, and click the world icon (2nd from left) and you can […]
