I am beside myself with glee, this is the second coming of all video plugins for WordPress. I can’t even begin to describe its genius. In a sentence, it builds in a rudimentary digital asset management system for mp3 and flv files -sick! This may be bigger than radio, or at least shortwave. [...]
Archive for January, 2007
wordTube: I know you know
Published by January 28th, 2007 in WordPress, plugins and video. 1 CommentWordPress 2.1 and K2 version 0.95 are on the shelves. In WordPress 2.1 I really like the fact that comments has its own tab and you can batch delete links, finally! My favorite, however, is the following feature for it reinforces the fact that the folks at WordPress understand their application as a CMS, [...]
More on ELI 2007:
Tuesday afternoon, after the accessibility presentation, I attended a session directed by Bryan Alexander on the educational implications of gaming. The format of this session was designated as a “learning circle,” which is loosely defined as “a collaborative session in which a member discusses the ‘next big thing’ they plan to pursue [...]
This is the first of a series of posts through which I will attempt to catch up on ELI 2007.
Mark Felix (Instructional Applications Support, The University of Arizona), Alan Foley (Learning Technology Liaison, University of Wisconsin System Administration) and Ken Petri (Director, OSU Web Accessibility Center, The Ohio State University) gave a [...]
5 reasons why I want to go to Northern Voice
Published by January 23rd, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 10 CommentsMy plea for travel funds from Northern Voice at UBC:
More seriously, I have no more developmental funds from UMW left, and I think that Northern Voice is where I need to be. The structure of the conference, the caliber of people, and the possibility of figuring out what is in the water up [...]
Darcy Norman recently had a great post on current definitions of the digital native and spaghetti sauce. I love his metaphysical marriage of such unlikely bedfellows as learners and gravy. He adopts this conceit from Malcolm Gladwell’s 2004 TedTech Talk in order to talk about the varying modalities of teaching and learning in technology we [...]
Who says there is no good content on Youtube?
Published by January 20th, 2007 in movies and video. 4 CommentsPlease be warned that this video requires a sense of humor!
Pasting a Word Document into WordPress
Published by January 13th, 2007 in WordPress and plugins. 3 CommentsOver the past two semesters I have gotten a bunch of complaints about the crazy formatting that results when pasting a MS Word document into the WordPress visual rich text editor. Well, those days are over thanks to Peter Baumgartner’s WordPress Plain Text Paste Plugin.
Now, some folks may argue that creating this [...]
Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout – a quick review
Published by January 12th, 2007 in Uncategorized and movies. 0 CommentsThis week has been a long one, the semester starts Monday and I have much to say about my recent experiments with Drupal, MediaWiki, bbpress, Open Journal Systems, and WordPress. But until I muster up the time and energy to discuss this work in more detail, I wanted to share my two cents on a [...]
The semester is coming, so here’s a little something to keep you going…
Including a Custom Header Image in K2:
To include a custom header in K2 you have two options. You can use the custom header tool in the tabs Presentation –> Custom Header or you can modify the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Modifying [...]
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