So it was time to put my money where my snout was… After waffling about screencasting, I decided to give it a go. Downloading the Windows Media Encoder was not too bad. I played a bit, not really sure of the various settings for the encoding. Anyhow, I recorded an 11 minute quick attempt at […]
flickr foto Do I Have To Sacrifce A Virgin To Install Windows Software?available on my flickr Just out of curiosity, I attempted to install the Windows “Photo Story 3” on my Dell laptop. I was unsuccessful at convincing Microsoft Windows that I was using Microsoft Windows despite extracting my secret password from the sticker on […]
If you’ve not been tapping into some of the screencasts being published by Jon Udell, you are missing out on a great phenomena achieved with free desktop software. This under 3 minute piece documents very clearly the power of a simple JavaScript / bookmarklet tool for managing web site password logins. But the subject, while […]
He’s baaaaaaaaaaack. That Biff Cantrell dude who chalked up a March 2004 hour long Breezed tour of the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX). He chopped out a lot of stuff, updated some images and links, and created a mini tour of the different kinds of RSS feeds in the MLX as a demo for the May […]
We’re one week away from my biggest yearly event responsibility, our annual Ocotillo Retreat. These go back before I started at Maricopa, though my first week on the job was the 1992 retreat at Mormon Lake, AZ.
For those not familiar with Ocotillo (go ahead, try and pronounce it 😉 it is our long standing organization that is a faculty driven, grassroots thinktank for addressing issues (or just stirring them up) about instructional technology. Learn more about the history from a March 2005 presentation, or see the plant behind the metaphor.
The retreat format has been as organic as the metaphor, sometimes a brainstorming / planning event held out of town, to mini conference formats held at our colleges with more open participation. It’s been my organizational responsibility since 1996, meaning conceptualizing, coordinating logisitics, etc.
I am extremely stoked and excited for this year’s event, it will be a blockbuster.
flickr foto Road 1 Skin 0available on my flickr This is trivial as far as road rash– just my mental record of what it means when you are learning to bicycle with cleated shoes…. I keep meaning to write some relative posts about my recent work, but keep getting distracted by every day antics. And […]
I’m a fan of Wired, sifting through the slick ads for the sometimes good writing… and I lifted the Wired. Tired. Expired. theme for a recent presentation.
But however “cool” a magazine may pass itself off for, underneath it is a business and there are bean counters and bottom liners working to milk my money. I loathe the “urgent” reminders that start 5 months before my subscription expired and I deliberately ignore them until a month before. What do I get out of giving interest free loans (okay, I provide this service to the US Government).
But this latest “personalized” note from “Jeffrey Stone, Office of the Publisher” makes me wonder if they are working under the P.T. Barnum School of Business:
I was happily iPodding my bicycle route home when my Shuffle went south, blinking amber lights. The battery drained, cutting the Clash off in mid song. Wow, after getting used to the audio track while biking, the lack of it was, well deafening.
It turns out when I plugged it into my iBook at night, I was not getting any battery recharge since the computer went to sleep. I think that one did not make it into the user manual. So when I am seeking technical answers, do I reach for customer support, a “FAQ“, and official help file, or even a “Knowledgebase“? Do I rush out and buy a fancy charger?
No way José.
Our Spring 2005 issue of the mcli Forum is printed on its way to all faculty and staff at Maricopa. We always put on the fast burn to create the web version in time to be announced before the paper hits the mailboxes. It’s a tedious formatting chore, but it is actually one of my […]
I am not one to stand in line or rush out to get the first version of a new operating system, so I am going to let the nice other eager souls take the first cuts on OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Over the years, I have found it more prudent to wait for the X.X.1 […]
