I was pointed to this post by Cathy Davidson about BlackBoard yesterday via this tweet by Shawn Miller, and I was interested in her post about BlackBoard and was ready to comment when I noticed that I had to register to do so. Now I know registering to comment is not the end of the [...]
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All I wanted was to comment, and HASTAC wouldn’t let me!
Published by March 10th, 2010 in Uncategorized. 12 CommentsThere has recently been a good discussion around Jon Mott’s forthcoming publication in the EDUCAUSE Review–it’s officially due out tomorrow—and the issue of getting credit for ideas. More specifically, getting credit for the idea of a post-LMS learning landscape, one wherein the Personal Learning Environment (or Personal Learning Network-depending on how you swing) becomes the [...]
An Open Approach to Teaching Web Content Management
Published by March 5th, 2010 in Uncategorized. 2 CommentsAntonio Vantaggiato of the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico has just blogged about the very cool approach he is taking to teaching his Computer Science students about Web Content Management. He’s giving theme the tools and the spaces to both experiment with open source CMSs in their own spaces and asking them to [...]
Instructional Technology Council 2010 Annual Conference
Published by February 23rd, 2010 in Uncategorized. 18 CommentsThe ITC 2010 annual conference was a revelation for me, and in many ways exactly what I needed to re-light my fire for instructional technology. I first heard of the conference last year when I saw that the Briyans were presenting there, and when I saw that I was wondering why I wasn’t attending. Listening [...]
Domain Mapping on Google Sites and UMW Blogs
Published by February 23rd, 2010 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 CommentsYesterday morning I went to visit a faculty member—Andy Smith in Historic Preservation—who has been using Google sites for a project she is working on called Fred Buildings. It is actually one of the nicer sites I’ve seen built with Google Sites, and her question for me was about mapping a domain onto Google sites. [...]
Public Demonstration of Affection Will Not be Tolerated Here
Published by February 15th, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsPlaying around with the Drive-In Movie Ads at Internet Archive, oh what a joy. Via “What’s New at the Internet Archive.“
One of the formative 10 is being remade, and it looks to be another favorite of my destroyed by CGI. Where have you gone, Ray Harryhausen? A nation turns its starving eyes to you (woo hoo hoo).
For some reason I started thinking about Ranier Werner Fassbinder films this evening. I had nothing on tap, so I went to YouTube and got a different kind of experience—interviews. I love this one he gives about what Berlin Alexanderplatz has to say about contemporary Gemany in the 1970s:
And this interview is crazy, it’s like [...]
A Useful Plugin: ShowID for Post/Page/Category/Tag/Comment plugin
Published by February 6th, 2010 in Uncategorized, WordPress, plugins and wpmu. 6 CommentsI find myself in every recent version of WP (and WPMu) searching for the ID numbers for various pages, posts, categories, and/or tags on a number of occasions. I’m not sure when this feature got dropped from the core, but I do remember it was at one time part of the edit post/edit page [...]
If anything this is a post about my LA/Long Beach days, a time I hold dear in my transformation.
Once I made love to these songs down on fascination street:
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