For the last few months (going back to August 2005), I’ve taken a self-induced hiatus for educational conference travel, but that is now changing quickly with three planned trips on the books in about a month’s span. Plans are now posted up on my IndyJunior map (and good to see Bryan Boyer’s source web site […]
Double the buzzword fun! I’ve only glazingly-eyed scanned some things people are writing about “Personal Learning Environments”, but I just wonder if you create a TLA (Three Letter Acronym) on something, does that mean it really exists? But I understand, embrace, and cheer the notion that the tapestry of free, loosely connected, highly personal technologies […]
1. Validate 2. Validate 3. Validate If you are doing anything in terms of publishing RSS feeds, from blogs, for podcasts, etc, keep posted in front of you a reminder to start and continually running your published feeds through a feed validator. Problems may not be visible, as many News Readers are forgiving on RSS […]
This Friday, January 27, 2006, Maricopa is welcoming Alice Bedard-Vorhees (Colorado Community Colleges Online) for a workshop on Bringing Guests to your Courses with a Virtual Speaker Bureau. This is a concept she developed at CCCOnline and has been nicely expanded as a service offfered in MERLOT. Simply, it means creating a directory of people […]
Upgrading to Flash Player 8 for Mac OSX– follow these instructions: Among the billions of reasons I primarily use a Mac is that I do not need to go ask some IT department to give me permission to do something to my computer. In fact it is usually the reverse- when something wants to run […]
One of the social software sites I wish I had more time to delve into is 43Things. It is insanely social (in a good way), with all the pieces running. You have a personalized space, tags, rss, post to blogs, subscribing to flickr feeds, some sort of social FOAFing. If you have not been there […]
Leave it to Zeldman to cut Web 2.0 hype to the bone. I relish the bite and fury of the words (plus the beautiful, elegant, Web Standard layout of A List Apart): To you who are toiling over an AJAX- and Ruby-powered social software product, good luck, God bless, and have fun. Remember that 20 […]
Flickr Backuppr Originally uploaded by cogdogblog. I received my flickr DVD backup created by emblaze and while I like having this backup of the pictures, I think about the best part is the priting of the label. Some things I find underwhelming are: The format of the disk is a few folders for my image […]
Through some forgotten path I came across Podzinger, a search tool that claims to search for keywords inside a podcast, and offer audio playback links to the actual segment itself: Podcasts have been subjected to the same primitive search through categorization … until now. PODZINGER looks inside podcasts, not just the metadata, letting you search […]
Sometime before the end of December. my colleague Tom Foster at Chandler-Gilbert asked me to co-lead a workshop for Maricopa library staff. Tom has helped me a lot, so of course I said “yes”. Then last week, he reminded me we had a week to prepare for our session just completed. So what does one […]
