Why not? Because thanks to an open source emulator called “Sheep Shaver” and the various packages others created with it. I just launched a classic OS 9 environment on my 2014 MacBook Pro. I first installed oone version that included apps like Claris Works, but it lacked HyperCard. Then I found another one from James […]
The typical scenario for professional development is to invite people to come to your training room, lab, office, building, city. I decided to try something different (I refuse to say “flip”) for the Online Open You Show seminar at TRU. […]
Yesterday Brian Lamb and I presented the SPLOT projects at TRU’s Teaching Practices Colloquium 2015. It was billed as: All too often, educators wanting to use online environments are given […]
If you have been on the web more than (fill in the blank with a short amount of time) you know the feeling when you click and find yourself greeted […]
In a bit of a self test, I am using the TRU Writer SPLOT tool to build a collection of papers I have published: This is a little different from […]
I was just looking around on the web. No, not really wandering, In prep for an upcoming talk where I want to put the web of 1996 in context, I googled for popular Songs of 1996 (notice the typo!). Note the top result, above Wikipedia, above some commercial site: As it turns out, this site […]
For the You Show this week I wanted to provide some demos for folks who could not turn up for our Audacity demo sessions (which turned out to be everyone but two people, Gail and Joseph, you guys are the best). I had one I did a few years ago for ds106 where I had […]
Here’s a game I play on the web. There are metric tonnes of sights that gather curious / interesting / weird stories be it mentalfloss, neatorama, Random Good Stuff, Holy Kaw… It must be a business, track eyeballs for advertisers, make stuff spreadable, hoping it hits the viral google juiced jackpot. Pretty much they sift […]
Wow, I thought I had written this up somewhere, but because Ken asked, and he is doing cool stuff with his Connected Course… Can anyone share the code for the Magic Box #CCourses http://t.co/lv3QFzS45M @cogdog @mburtis @timmmmyboy ? — Ken Bauer Favel (@ken_bauer) February 11, 2015 What is the Magic Box? Not much magic, but […]
The word came via Bryan Alexander’s blog last night that a great spirit of curiosity, interest, creativity has left this world, note of it too on his daughter’s blog. George has gone through numerous health challenges; the photo above was from the time in 2011 I was doing my long odyssey trip and visited and […]
