Archive for April, 2006

UMW at ACCS: A Motley Crue (insert umlaut …twice)

As a proud member of DTLT I think it is safe to say that we had a relatively successful run of our “Bluehost: A Fantastico Expedition” presentation at the ACCS conference today. It was really a pleasure to talk about all the fantastic”o” things we are doing here at UMW, and framing it through [...]

Did somebody say Slide Show Pro has a Coppermine Plugin?!

I have been taking a little slack here at DTLT (which, by the way, will be hosting none other than Jon Udell at this year’s Faculty Academy on May 17th – wow!!) for pointing out the delicate subtleties of a slide show extension for flash called Slide Show Pro. So much so, that my [...]

Felix the Cat – a socialist?

Who knew Felix the cat was such a pinko? Here he is doling out money to the poor of the depression-era (a majority of whom would make up the the audience in a theatre for this short) with his gold brickin’ goose – this is yet another fascinating cartoon in this Vintage Tooncast [...]

Vintage Tooncast

It is truly amazing what gets unveiled when the copyright laws lapse, the public domain kicks in, and an unbelievable online digital resource like archive.org broadens its library and allows us to access the past in new and exciting ways, but also, at times, in challenging and problematic ways. I was on iTunes [...]

Now that’s a fire

Basecamp has done it again recently with their free IM messaging service. Here is how they describe it:
Campfire lets you set up password-protected web-based chat rooms in just seconds. Invite a client, colleague, or vendor to chat, collaborate, and make decisions. Set up a room on your intranet for internal communications.
You can find out more [...]

The Louverture project

I have been been looking for resources on the relationship between Americas’ first war (the Tripolitan War from 1801-1805) in North Africa and the Haitian revolution. While I am still searching for the historical connection, I found a very interesting ‘academic’ project using a wiki and blog to open up the historical narrative of the [...]




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