Friday session at NMC Summer Conference: How can you have an impact on your campus? How do you know if you are succeeding? What strategies are other NMCs using to make an impact? At the 2005 NMC Directors’ Meeting in February, these questions were raised in a stimulating conversation about maximizing campus impact. This session […]
This morning at the NMC Summer conference was my presentation on More Than Cat Diaries: Publishing With Weblogs… maybe it was the small room, but it was pretty full. I threw a whole lot of kitchen sinck at them. The gist of this was to address the dissmissive commonly uttered description of blogs as “online […]
Start with a demo! Good move. Pachyderm project site
Wendy Shapiro (Case Western) showed a Pachyderm created “Exploring Soul Music” done with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Soul Music timeline done via Phone dial screen with screens by year. Gives world events for context, examples of music from Ray Charles and Chubby Checker. Checker is not in the Hall of Fame, but the zoom screen uses a letter written by him campaigning to be inducted. Second project from Case Western in Dental School. The school is moving to problem based learning. Pachyderm used to create scenarios, presented as video clips. The main screen presents “Questions to Answer”, a mini lecture, other media that contain clues to answer questions. ANother screen presents a menu of resources with links to web sites, Word documents, PowerPoints.
Next up is Peter Samis, SFMOMA where Pachyderm 1.0 was created.
flickr foto Hanauma Bayavailable on my flickr This awesome beach is the result of a volcanic crater blowing out a coral reef, and the ocean reclaiming it’s loss by breaching the wall of the crater, leaving this magnificent crescent beach– and a new coral reef. No, this is not the conference location for the New […]
flickr foto Obligatory WIki Photoavailable on my flickr Having landed at the Honolulu airport, I paid the computer technogeek’s homage to Ward Cunningham by taking the obligatory photo of the "Wiki Wiki" bus. Wow, is Hawaii heavenly on what? And I get the honor of shuttling between airport terminals on the legendary Wiki Wiki busses, […]
Call me fickle, but despite some recent barking about the new social bookmark site Jots, I am romping back to del.icio.us for my primary bookmarking. Ttecnically, I am using my multi-bookmark tool to post to del.icio.us, Furl, and our Bag of URLs site… Furl since I have a big pile there not elsewhere, the “Bag” since I use it to send links to a list within our system.
But I am back to del.icio.us for its ease of tagging via the bookmark tool- not only does it nicely auto complete tags when typed in, it also makes using my previous tags a one clikc suggestio, and it offers a decent set of suggested tags perhaps used by others.
So for example, I just dumped in the Google Sightseeing site, a fun place that catalogs interesting things that have been found in the Satellite views of Google Maps…
flickr foto Over Thereavailable on my flickr Look Sani, there goes a cat! Get it! Hanging out a few days in San Diego- here is my stepsom’s 130 pound lapdog, ‘Sani’, a sweeter than sugar Great Dane puppy.
Darth Vader is baring his soul in blog format Darth Vader is an immaculately conceived knight-bastard imbued with magical powers who rules the known galaxy at the right hand of the merciless and brilliant Emperor Palpatine I. Though he maintains palaces on both Coruscant and Vjun, Vader spends most of his time travelling aboard Executor, […]
The blog may be blinking in and out for a week. I’m currently visiting family in San Diego through Monday (look for some pix soon of Sani, my step-son’s cute ‘little’ Great Dane puppy) and a hope flight back to Phoenix to catch a Tuesday morning flight to Hawaii for the 2005 NMC Summer Conference. […]
Will deftly spotted and posted about a site that showed in real-time the update action over at WikiPedia: You can see the line for each edit in Wikipedia as it’s made. In the few moments it’s taken to create this post, over 80 edits have been made about everything from the Pakistani Coast Guard to […]
