A new meta-resource educational technology site has appeared on the scenes– The Academic Commons: offers a forum for investigating and defining the role that technology can play in liberal arts education. Sponsored by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College, Academic Commons publishes essays, reviews, interviews, showcases of innovative uses of […]
It was getting tedious, even with my own multi-site bookmarklet tool, to load web sites I have scanned into both furl and del.icio.us— especially as Firefox seemed to 60% of the time lose track of the Furl content. It’s nothing wrong with Furl, I like the service, and it has most of the hooks I […]
Google is certainly sitting idly by while Yahooo ramps up its personal services. Check out the new Google personal home page, where you can select from a number of RSS sources, or connect your own: This was a quick set up with some of my own feeds, important weather selections, and a few of the […]
More fun, graphics creative Frivolity. Logogle, the Google Logo maker, allows you to turn any text into the style Google’s word log. See for example, the new monetizing entity, CogDogBlogoogle: This was found via a curious site trendalicious which bubbles up popular sites that have recently been tagged in del.icio.us: trendalicious is a near real-time […]
Wow, wow, and wow… I am very tempted to ponying up some paypal dough for Spam Karma 2, the powerful plugin for Word Press 2. It assigns incoming comments and trackbacks a karma value, based on your moderation habits, content in the comment, remote blacklists, and more. There is a raft of options for you […]
From the inbox, a reference to our Writing HTML tutorial which is still active after being on the web for 11 years (and sadly in need of a re-write). Hello, Alan, I haven’t bent your ear for awhile. I check the links on the “Volcano” pages occasionally, and it appears that the “Pliny the Elder” […]
Among the boatload of Chinese spam, enlargement/shrinkage offers, gambling teasers, celebrity nude photos that grace my daily email comes a genuine nice message today from Steve Dembo: Hey, I really enjoy reading your blog. Definitely in my top 5. However, every I want to find an article of yours or link back to your site, […]
Mastercards with flickr uses the gazillion images found in flickr to create the familiar game of image matching. The site creator gives the nod to the version from Games For the Brain (a nice collection of stuff), but isn’t this really the old game of “Concentration”? Here is the game I played using a flickr […]
More exclamations of “holy flickr” emitting from my room. The flickr montager generates a mosaic image based on tags of a word from flickr. I played a bit with it, tried my own montage on the tag “dog”. It randomly chose some image of a pocket puppy type dog (or as my friend Donna refers […]
Poking around the site, I found what is more or less some evolving documentation of the ITConversation software and recording process (that would said as “pro SESS” by by northern neighbors 😉 as a wiki document- see IT Conversations Wiki for things like AudioProcessing, IT Conversations in Education, File Formats, Encoders, Bit Rates and More, […]
