The calendar reminder today, October 15, is rather precise. My grandmother would have been 114 today. So it’s one of the reasons I love and miss her stories, is that she never knew for sure the exact day of her birth. How is that possible? Things were rather different in 1905, in urban Newark, New […]
One of the nifty things about WordPress, as if they need naming, is the ability to embed media into posts simply by putting a URL on a blank line and pressing return. No futzing with copying and pasting HTML. Just the link to the page that houses a YouTube video, a SoundCloud audio, a flickr […]
Not that this was necessary. The edtech metaphor making for Martin Weller had completely run its course (and the great John Johnston sharing a way to feed it via a Google spreadsheet), yet I am still tinkering. Today happened just because I was cleaning out old unread email, and found a link I had emailed […]
It had been a while since I saw the flickr error screen that meant “oops” something went wrong, the “Bad Bad Panda” message. And its intent worked; while frustrating, the image made me smile. I remember when it looked like Yahoo had shelved the panda. I was pretty sure that it had been part of […]
Now we get to the most exciting part to blog of the JIBC project I have been working on. In this series I went from map metaphors, dabbling with a Leaflet.js interface to the WordPress site building. Now we go where no blog has gone be… well this is not true at all. I’ve been […]
Here, like Tom does well, I am just noting some code thinking in case it gets fuzzy later. Maybe this is an edge case that almost no one will face. A project I am working on now has custom post types I inject via the handy plugin. As it turns out, maybe for the theme […]
I should not have to list out the things that can make one feel weary after a few (hours? minutes?) of opening an internet device. Is anyone else worn out? Thankfully, enough things happen, without seeing them coming, to- at least for now– counter the flood. And invariably for me, these are at the individual […]
This is the third of n in a series of posts covering the development of a web site project for JIBC. Previously I wrote about the metaphor of and prototyping of a map metaphor. Now it’s how it was not exactly realized in the WordPress site created. But let’s start with the end, meet CorrLeader, […]
Go ahead, be a copycat. Down at number 111 of the 2019 Top Tool for learning is a site I use often myself for finding images available for reuse, pixabay. The rank is anything I care about. Among the comments: “Free images, you do not have to attribute, good selection.” Instructional Designer, USA “As with […]
If you create content in any system, you likely have ways of organizing them into, say WordPress Categories. This is nothing new under the sun. But the typical organization is rather tree like, creating links to drill down, then out. There is an alternative interface, you have likely seen it. I’m not sure what the […]
