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Thursday, August 28, 2008 today
Can you tell a story in exactly 140 characters? That’s the idea behind the first ever @copyblogger Twitter writing contest. It should be a great exercise and a lot of fun. Being constrained to exactly 140 characters will spark your creative juices and force you to focus stringently on word choice, sentence structure, and even punctuation.
Just CogDogBlogged: Things That Happen Only on the Web Channel http://tinyurl.com/5mqthb
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 today
Just CogDogBlogged: Foxmarks- Like a Bad House Guest Who Won't Leave http://tinyurl.com/6k9e6n
The Learning Technologies Hub have established this Wordpress powered environment to provide an easy to use blogging and podcasting space for staff and students at Riverina Institute.
I uninstalled FoxMarks yet see bookmark synching in progress bar at bottom of FF3. Must I drive a stake thru its heart? Beachballs frack
In this article I want to reflect on the rhetoric of ‘Web 2.0’ and its potential versus actual impact. I want to suggest that we need to do more than look at how social networking technologies are being used generally as an indicator of their potential impact on education, arguing instead that we need to rethink what are the fundamental characteristics of learning and then see how social networking can be harnessed to maximise these characteristics to best effect. I will further argue that the current complexity of the digital environment requires us to develop ‘schema’ or approaches to thinking about how we can best harness the benefits these new technologies confer.
One of the more powerful tricks of the .htaccess hacker is the ability to rewrite URLs. This enables us to do some mighty manipulations on our links; useful stuff like transforming very long URL's into short, cute URLs, transforming dynamic ?generated=page&URL's into /friendly/flat/links, redirect missing pages, preventing hot-linking, performing automatic language translation, and much, much more.
On this "pageflake," you'll find a collection of pre-writing tools to help you develop your essay with greater depth and complexity. The topoi are designed to encourage students to view an issue through multiple lenses. The Topoi raise questions, challenge assumptions, reveal contradictions, offer new points of view.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 yesterday
@jokay Seriously- you are doing some awesome design work, love the Riverina site. Hope they blog like crazy!
http://twitpic.com/96e1 - @lloydbudd sure looks that way! Just dl-ed THX1138 to iPod for last trip, amazing movie.
Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish!
When describing Twitter, I use a number of analogies. Most commonly, I think of Twitter as something like a slow-motion chatroom, or even a collection of away messages. I’ve got another one to add to this list: subject-only email. Thinking about Twitter this way helped me imagine enterprise integration of a Twitter-like service. I envisioned adding a “Twitter pane” to email clients - a pane for Twitter-like communication aside the inbox. This Twitter pane would act as an ongoing message thread away from the inbox, and its uses would be more conversational, informal and informative.
Looks like FireFox3 slowness was a rogue extension- shut off Foxmarks, Fast Video downloader, and Operator-- beachball is gone.
Things to do while beachball spins in FF3- change oil in car, cook lasagna, learn new song on guitar, solve linear equations... sigh & cuss
SlideBoom gives you a place to share your PowerPoint presentations with the world. We want to help everyone reach a worldwide audience. Of course, it's up to you who can view your creations. With Slideboom, your original presentation keeps its features after conversion. This includes: * content style * animation effects * transitions * embedded audio * embedded video iSpring lets SlideBoom convert PowerPoint presentations into Flash movies faster while retaining the presentation's original effects better than any other service can. You can also convert presentations from PowerPoint to Flash on your own computer using the iSpring add-in for PowerPoint.
by Stephen Downes Drawing on Richard MacManus’s 10 Future Web Trends This is a bit linear, but has the virtue of identifying future trends, not things that are around today.
Udutu brings to the eLearning community the world's first LMS designed to run on popular Social Networks such as Facebook. Our applications can turn existing social networks into a powerful Learning Management System, (LMS, LCMS) and retain all the rich communication and scheduling tools that these applications offer. Better yet, there’s no upfront investment in either infrastructure or software licensing. You can be up and running tomorrow in the interface your learners already know and use.
Software sales email spammer who called me Alex pestering why I did not reply. (1) I hate spam (2) I am not Alex (3) no reply=not interested
Going a bit crazy with adding Clicky widgets for NMC web stats (Clicky has a drupal module for integration) http://www.nmc.org/webstats
Just CogDogBlogged: Flying Pigs, Iron Balloons, and Top Down Tagging http://tinyurl.com/5cxmx7
Monday, August 25, 2008 2 days ago
Just CogDogBlogged: Holy iPhone Screen Shots http://tinyurl.com/6mmd2d
Been a steady rain here in Strawberry for about 4 hours, you can almost hear thirsty trees moan with pleasure.
@cathyarreguin iPhone! iPhone! iPhone! iPhone! iPhone! iPhone! iPhone! iPhone! iPhone! iPhone! iPhone! iPhone! iPhone! iPhone! iPhone!
Hey! When are all the politicos leaving Denver? soon i hope! heading that way this weekend.
Finally found answer to unhelpful iPhone app sync "Unknown Error: 0xE800002E" http://tinyurl.com/5bw8uo
Just CogDogBlogged: Your Camera Phone is a Document Scanner with Qipit http://cogdogblog.com/2008/...
Just CogDogBlogged: Stories From the Dead Letter Inbox http://tinyurl.com/5wexl6
@psyan trying out Yelp on iPhone for locating restaurants. It did great for restaurants nr Strawberry (HBs in Pine) but struck out on bars.
@RadHertz Dude, lots of boxes! I've seen your office ;-) Good luck with the intercontinental migration.
Sunday, August 24, 2008 3 days ago
Very sore from full afternoon moving dirt, boulders, for new garden. Saw 3 separate thunderstorms move through. Mmmm big rain drops
@chuckreynolds had severe template glitches w/ podpress, it stores data in manners only it can use. Have yet to try new one; mostly Anarchy
Blubrry Podcast Plugin (WP)- http://www.blubrry.com/powe... PodPress killer?
@psyan Cool! My new iPhone buddy ;-) who has waaaaaay more adventurous trips abroad than me
Just CogDogBlogged: NGTD and ReaderBox Zero http://cogdogblog.com/2008/...
WordPress in it's default install configuration does not support podcasting at a level that most people need. The Powerpress Podcast Plugin has all of the elements needed to have you podcast RSS feed in complete compliance in order to obtain a iTunes listing, and is optimized for listings in podcast directories and the Zune Marketplace. The Powerpress Podcast plugin also includes a player that you can configure to appear on your blog posts so guests can listen/view your podcast episodes straight from your website. It should be noted that nearly 50% of people listen to podcast online versus through their portable media player.
What do you use when you need to create online presentations that really stand out? In today selection of visual communication tools a great tool for visually comparing different items as well as a graphic chart creator and some cool image editing tools.
As people fiddle with the photos in their scrapbooks, the tug of emotion and vanity can win out over the objective truth. And in some cases, it can even alter memories — Cousin Andy was at the wedding, right? In an age of digital manipulation, many people believe that snapshots and family photos need no longer stand as a definitive record of what was, but instead, of what they wish it was. “It used to be that photographs provided documentary evidence, and there was something sacrosanct about that,” said Chris Johnson, a photography professor at California College of the Arts in the Bay Area.
David Eraker started a company called Mindsite to help people who are searching for answers about mental health. I found out that the DSM-IV is the go-to guide for diagnosing mental health issues, and Mindsite is the first company to publish this resource online for consumers to read directly. I know lots of people who are searching for mental health information–they’re called “disgruntled employees,” so I asked David to help me help you figure out if your boss is crazy. Here are the main personality disorders from the DSM-IV as they relate to your boss.
Over the last month, I worked with Jesse Thomas of JESS3, to create a new graphic that helps chart online conversations between the people that populate communities as well as the networks that connect the Social Web. The Conversation Prism is free to use and share. It's our contribution to a new era of media education and literacy.
Saturday, August 23, 2008 4 days ago
@susansimon cool I love the little camera too. Am hanging out with soul4real
@susansimon that was not my error buy call canon support. Ok have a direct # for a tech. Good luck
@shareski I mean Guiness