This week’s Spider-man features two episodes with two all-new villains:
“The One-Eyed Idol” Someone has sent a one-eyed idol to Jonah Jameson. Jameson is hypnotised by the idol to steal his own cash. Spiderman finds the assailant the following night but gets captured. Cliventon [a Crocodile Dundee prototype] and his Aborigine friend have been swindling Jameson. [...]
Archive for May, 2009
I steered clear of the Google Wave hype until David Wiley posted a short, resounding “things with the potential to completely transform the way we teach and learn come along so rarely I had to share.” I joked at CUNY WordCampEd that Google had all the makings of the killer LMS already they just needed [...]
I really don’t know how to even begin and try and introduce this one, save that it just proves that the 70s was a far superior decade
Via Cartoon Brew
After watching this clip from the 1973 documentary about Jimi Hendrix (appropriately titled Jimi Hendrix), I simply have to say that Little Richard may very well be the single greatest individual ever. Don’t believe me? Well, then watch the above clip, sucker!
Special thanks to Sid Hillman, Greg Vincent, and Thom Arredondo for showing me this [...]
Instructional Technology is not Information Technology
Published by May 29th, 2009 in insructional technology. 12 CommentsWow! Luke Waltzer just nailed a strategic plan outlining the future of instructional technology at CUNY. Honest, fair, and to the point, an amazing post about why instructional technology needs to be taken ever more seriously as an integral part of any educational institution. I also think it highlights just how eloquent and precise a [...]
Image credit: gem66’s “Farm Tractor and Family”
The recent annoucnement and sharing of the various extensions and code that enables user integration between WPMu and MediaWiki, I have once again returned to the idea of make the UMW Blogs Wiki a MediaWiki farm. The blog needs a new theme, I know, but more importantly, we need [...]
Philipp Schmidt just posted on a cool new mashup of Google Forms and Yahoo Pipes that creates a kind of self-service aggregation of feeds for Peer-2-Peer University classes, you can see the prototype here. Go ahead, add the URL of your blog feed and test this puppy out.
What I like about this is that it’s [...]
“Nothing to see here, folks, nothing to see. Move along now….move along.”
We waited until the end of the semester for the UMW Blogs upgrade to 2.7.1 and I have to say going from version 2.6.5 to 2.7.1 was the easiest yet. I was a bit concerned given this was our first upgrade with the multi-database [...]
CUNY Academic Commons Announces WPMu-MediaWiki Single Sign-on
Published by May 26th, 2009 in WordPress, mediawiki, plugins and wordpress multi-user. 6 CommentsI missed this announcement last Thursday while traveling and getting ready for CUNY WordCampEd, but this is pretty exciting news from the CUNY Academic Commons, which promises to become a force in offering up much needed plugins and open source tool integration for open source applications like WPMu, MediaWiki, and the like.
Very cool, MediaWiki and [...]
Every time I head into Manhattan—whether via train, tunnel, or glider—I can’t help but think that I am entering the the Manhattan Island penitentiary imagined so famously in John Carpenter’s masterpiece Escape from New York (1981). And as soon as I think about that movie, I can’t help but think about one of the most [...]



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