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Real World Learning Objects (RWLOs)
Our system is somehow involved with this but I cannot quite figure out what it is or does.
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Playing with Flickr Cut Outs
flickr foto dog-truckavailable on my flickr Another one for the Cut Outs Flickr Group — emphasizing the blue door in this shot in Rawena, NZ. It was really the color of the door that caught my eye while enjoying a “flat white” at the cafe, worth setting off as a “cutout”?? Still, it takes a […]
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For My Holiday List
I’ll take one of these, please. You can have a lot of faith in the sensible writing of Danny Goodman, who long ago for me threw all kinds of new light on HyperCard, and later JavaScript… My job in this book is to translate the gobbledygook spouted by all sides of the email wars into […]
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Tasty del.icio.us feeds with PHP
Via open artifact cam this link to MovableBlog’s Integrating del.icio.us with PHP and Magpie describing a way to embed the output of your del.icio.us links in a web page. As always, there are many paths to the same destination.
As frequent readers know, this can be achieved via the JavaScript approach using our Feed2JS service or standalone code. Of course there is a round trip delay for this as a PHP script must be called which then fetches a fresh feed from the source (or loads a cached one). Or maybe JavaScript is just too clumsy for your tastes,
If you are on a PHP capable server, you can install Magie (which you need to do with the approach described via MovableBlog), but if you also use our PHP version of Feed2JS you can achieve the same effect.
The advantage of our approach over the one described above is that it can be repeated quite easily just by creating new shorter series of include statements. For example, below I will use it with my del.ici.ous RSS feed, but 3 weeks ago I used a different set of parameters to the same code. Feed, Rinse, Repeat.
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New Zealand: Believe It or Not!
For the benefit of my fellow American travelers, I am sharing some key learnings that may save them embarrassment, shame, or international ridicule when visiting this beautiful place. Note- this is very much not to be taken seriously! I am writing this on the plane back before it all starts to fade away to the […]
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The Big New Zealand Finale: “Rip. Mix. Learn.”
Today is my last day in a little slice of green heaven known as New Zealand where I have been visiting and giving workshops at several institutions in the Auckland area (see the CogDog’s upside down inverted cousin, the CogDog(kiwi)Blog). Among other bits, I’ve been stirring up the interest in wikis here– and like my […]
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Feedster Blog Search
Feedster is offering a new search tool to help you find content that comes from weblogs, a handy way to scope your web searches. For the uninitiated, Feedster provides a google-like interface for searching things found in RSS feeds. It offers tools to store your own set of feeds (like another flavor of Bloglines as […]
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Try Some A9 Sauce On That Next Web Search
I give credit to “Thomas” , a participant in one my recent workshops at Manukau Institute of Technology here in Auckland, NZ for turning me on to a new search site- A9. It is a whopper. It’s been about a Google years since I got interested or even raised an eyebrow at a new search […]
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Find the Dog
flickr foto Find the Dogavailable on my flickr See if you can locate the puppy trying to get someone’s attention from this truck parked in Rawena, New Zealand. While enjoying a flat white in this cosy cafe in Rawena, I was mesmerized by this simple composition of a truck parked in front of a grey […]
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Bb-igfoot: Are there More than Blurry Photos of ePortfolios?
Despite a lack of clearly focused photographs, there are some out there clinging to firm beliefs in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. I get the same sensation trying to get a clear picture of Blackboard’s ePortfolio functionality. Some messages of inquiry about the legendary beast in question bounced around the AAHE Electronic Portfolio Action […]