Published August 31st, 2006
in video games.
Context: This post started out as a comment in response to Raph Koster’s insightful and thought-provoking comment on Brian Lamb’s discussion of the recent article in Harper’s Weekly “Grand Theft Education.†After I finished the first two paragraphs I promoted it to post! 
As I understand it, the term interiority in relationship to narrative [...]
Published August 31st, 2006
in Uncategorized.
Well, it is not like I didn’t know this fact already, but I have been so spoiled in my enjoyment of a bug free web experience over the past year that sometimes I simply forget. Recently, however, I have been rudely reminded of just how incompatible most browsers are with open source programs like [...]
Published August 28th, 2006
Uncategorizedin .
Upon completing part 1 of this serialized tutorial you should have the shell of your virtual learning space framed out. Now we want to start adding other open source tools that may be helpful. After Wordpress, the next install for me is [[MediaWiki]]. I experimented with putting my syllabus and class notes [...]
Published August 26th, 2006
Uncategorizedin .
So you wanna make an online course site that is open, conversational, multimedia ready, and more conducive to an engaging and dynamic online learning environment? Well, you came to the right blog at the right time because as the monolithic administrative Course Managment Systems tighten their imperial grip on anything “resembling a web interface to [...]
Published August 26th, 2006
in Uncategorized.
I guess it has been a long time coming and a long time here, but I just had to blog about it once I finally got it up and running. Thanks for the plugin Albert Banks.
Published August 22nd, 2006
in Uncategorized.
Regular WFMU listeners will be no doubt familiar with the concept of “industrial musicals”, where a company promotes themselves or their products with a single, a full album, or in extreme cases a full-blown musical production. The album Product Music: Vol 1 is a collection of memorable examples of the industrial song. Because if you’re [...]
Published August 21st, 2006
in Uncategorized, WordPress, YouTube, plugins and video.
Update: The ExtermeVideo 2.o plugin has gone the way of the DoDo Bird, use Anarchy Media Player or Viper’s Video Quicktags.
I am sure this is old hat for many of you, but I just found an all-in-one video plugin for WordPress called ExtremeVideo 2.0. This plugin easily embeds google videos, youtube videos, flv files, [...]
Published August 17th, 2006
in Uncategorized.
I’m finally back at the blog, and while I have been away for a while, I am happy to say that this was only because so many cool things have been happening. In fact, this post is just to frame a tiny (yet crucial) element of a larger push by the faculty I work [...]
Published August 6th, 2006
in Uncategorized.
Every time bavatuesdays is loaded a random screenshot from one of several of [[Mario Bava]]’s films will be assailing the unsuspecting visitor to my site from the header, kinda like my own little haunted house!
Many thanks go to Darcy Norman’s generous explanation of how he swaps out random images in his header using a clean [...]
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