Monthly Archives: January 2007

wordTube: I know you know

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 … Continue reading

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WordPress 2.1 and K2 0.95

WordPress 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 … Continue reading

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More Than Just a Game

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 … Continue reading

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How accessible is your campus CMS?

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 … Continue reading

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5 reasons why I want to go to Northern Voice

My 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 … Continue reading

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Where should the Locus of Control be?

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 … Continue reading

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Who says there is no good content on Youtube?

Please be warned that this video requires a sense of humor![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc[/youtube] 

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Pasting a Word Document into WordPress

Over 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 … Continue reading

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Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout – a quick review

This 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 … Continue reading

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A Few Customizing Tips for K2

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 … Continue reading

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