Wordle Does Feeds by cogdogblog posted 28 Jul ’08, 10.57am MDT PST on flickr The uber nifty Wordle tag cloud generator now can take any URL that has an RSS feed and generate one of those lovely word maps of content. Here is what the latest blabber from CogDogBlog has in it- heavily weighted by […]
Calling drupal jedi masters! I need some advice. When planning the structure of the NMC web site I had only a fuzzy idea of how to use taxonomies for organizing content, and ended up creating one taxonomy for staff to organize content that is a bit problematic as it serves multiple purposes, and I want […]
As a kid I was immersed in the House by Pooh Corner it was the ancient “book” technology and a few 72 rpm LPs of someone reading the stories. I did not have too many of the accessory toys, maybe an inflatable set of characters. I really wanted a heffalump. The stream of memories was […]
It’s been almost a year since my half baked idea emerged for 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story — I presented it 7 times, which for me, a reluctant presenter is a lot of repeats. But it is a fun show, and the highlight was getting a packed auditorium at Northern Voice 2008– I was sure everyone had my session confused with celebrity keynote. I was shaking in my cowboy boots.
By the time of the last presentation at the University of Delaware, I had achieved the Magic Heinz Number… 57 Tools…. and since then I have added another 12 on the “to do” list (sometime when I can stomach doing the same story again) including 280 slides, flowgram, SlideRocket, dipity, gloster, and more. A few of these are in beta, and I have access, but hope they emerge soon.
Vuvox Collage has been in beta a long time (and who knows what will happen, they were bought in June by eBay). I still love that one, and put along with gloster and I think the “Scrapbook” category may be renamed “Collages”.
A lot of folks keep telling me how useful the list is. And they keep asking me to recommend “best” tools. That’s really not the purpose to rank or say one is better than another. Most of the presentation ones and the slideshow ones are same in functionality, and differ maybe in template or background music choices. But I worry that people get fixated on the tools and not the process.
And I am seeking more examples to list! While the site is a wiki, I dont leave it open because (a) when I did, someone munged the format; and (b) when I did, some ***hole added spam links. So its my wiki, not yours (to edit). But what I do ask is that if you or your students or your mother-in-law or your mother-in-law’s dentist’s accountant makes a story in one of these tools, please go to the discussion tabs and share the URL (or just comments). I am watching the RSS feeds on these and boy is my reader lonely.
Three people from my University of Delaware workshop in June provided links to stories… so i will share them.
I’m loading up my duffle bag with mosquito repellent, mess kit, multi-tool, flashlight, sleeping bag, laptop, blog…. woah woah… well I am not taking all that stuff but I am going to camp… WordCamp! WordPressCamp! Thanks to a direct message nudge from @lloydbudd as a reminder, I hemmed and hawed and then just spelled out […]
You don’t have to be a “post some silly movie or photo or rant” every day blogger to be effective. When my RSS Reader lights up with a new post from Gardner Campbell, I drop what I am doing to go read. If you are an educator interested in blogging, wiki, web tools for learning, […]
Woah! I found out today my old Shockwave projects can breathe again!
I cut my multimedia teeth in the 1990s on Macromedia Director. I was happy in the early part of that decade pounding around HyperCard and then came along a project (something to do with Study Skills) that required a lot of animation and there was this software box on the shelf that sounded promising.
I never produced or created as much in those Director days. It was the first time I fell into a full blown online social space, the Direct-L listserv (hey it still exists!). I still have some scarred flesh somewhere from some guy named G Gordon III at Virginia Tech who flamed my seriously. It took 3 months from that scorching before I felt okay to post.
But around that same time, 1994, I was excited at the hypertext potential of the early early barebones web. So after seeing my buddy Marvyn H create a public Director FTP site (the “shared cast” at Houston Community Colleges), I decided to open a public web site, the Director Web at Maricopa. (actually, when it started it was the Director Page).
At the time, Macromedia did not even have a corporate web site.
For no other reason that it was fun to play with, using the cutting web 2.X tools of BombayTV, we have the latest in the tales of edupunk. Grapheine : Webdesigners, illustrateurs, graphistes, agence de com, Paris Lyon A linktribution goes to the Adventures of Bollywood Blackboardwala by Randy Thornton for yielding this site that […]
If there was a Most Valuable Player award for advancing open content, I would certainly give it to Creative Commons. Remove CC from history, say it never happened, and I wonder if we’d have the awareness of enabling sharing content. I dont want to argue that point, it is a long winded way of saying […]
OMG, my sides are aching from laughter, just me and my web browser and the GraphJam site which is taglined “Pop cullture for people in cubicles”. People submit Excel generated charts and graphs that illustrate sayings, song topics, or just relationships of things from history or modern life (Found this in the latest issue of WiRed).
So the pithy old saying about “thinking my old man was some dumb until I turned 29 and realized how much he learned by then” becomes GraphJammed:
