- Matt is showing my profile to a room full of strangers.
James Dyson on Engineering and Design
One of his most important principles? The CEO of the company shouldn’t be able to easily break the products. Watch this hilarious/stunning/crazy video and ask yourself: Would the average CE manufacturer beat up his or her product like this on camera?
Yellowstone Art Museum - Education - Digital Kids
links to interactive art websites
CommunityWalk - make your own map, build interactive maps, create a map with photos, videos, more
# Create personal, community, and professional maps
# Show the map on a website or blog
# Add photos, videos, comments, more
Saturday, June 28, 2008
diigo bookmarks (weekly)
Saturday, June 21, 2008
diigo bookmarks (weekly)
Interesting graphic; came across this on a blog suggesting the format as an alternative form of essay.
Comedy sketch highlighting the public nature of "private" profiles.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Wordle and Delicious
I hadn't noticed this the first time around, but Wordle will also generate a tag cloud from a user's Delicious tags.
With my job change, professional development has become a major tag for me in the last year. I wonder what my cloud would have looked like a year ago.
With my job change, professional development has become a major tag for me in the last year. I wonder what my cloud would have looked like a year ago.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Wordle as instructional tool
Caught wind of Wordle this weekend thanks to Christian at think:lab. Wordle takes a text and produces a tag cloud based on word frequency. For an example, Christian plugs in Macbeth and then goes on to wonder about the results of doing the same thing to student papers.
Next fall I will be helping with the social studies curriculum review, so my thoughts have drifted toward making a tool like this appealing to the history and government teachers.
One of the big pushes in the district is the use of primary source documents, so the Constitution and Bill of Rights seem like naturals.
This visual treatment of historic documents can certainly lead to some interesting conversations. Notice how, in the Bill of Rights, the words "law" and "people" appear to be of equal size.
What does this mean in the document? in life? How do these documents compare with others, say the Declaration of Independence?
Dawns on me that it would be intriguing to run my students' own essay through a Wordle cloud tag blender to show them in real terms which words bullrushed the reader's mindspace:I love it!
* Would words like "like" run roughshod over the rest in visual cacophony of rad-ness?
* Or would it be an obnoxious -- and seldom grasped -- litany of hey, look at my SAT word explosion choices instead?
Next fall I will be helping with the social studies curriculum review, so my thoughts have drifted toward making a tool like this appealing to the history and government teachers.
One of the big pushes in the district is the use of primary source documents, so the Constitution and Bill of Rights seem like naturals.
This visual treatment of historic documents can certainly lead to some interesting conversations. Notice how, in the Bill of Rights, the words "law" and "people" appear to be of equal size.
What does this mean in the document? in life? How do these documents compare with others, say the Declaration of Independence?
Saturday, June 14, 2008
diigo bookmarks (weekly)
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
think:lab: Mapping Literary Highlights, Highlighting Literary Maps
Share More! Wiki » Work/Convert FLV to MOV using VLC Media Player?
Instructions for converting .flv movies to other formats (.mp4, .mov) using VLC media player.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
diigo bookmarks 06/10/2008
Share More! Wiki » Work/Convert FLV to MOV using VLC Media Player?
Instructions for converting .flv movies to other formats (.mp4, .mov) using VLC media player.
Friday, June 06, 2008
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
diigo bookmarks 05/28/2008
Installation/LowMemorySystems - Community Ubuntu Documentation
Geek to Live: How to access a home server behind a router/firewall
Geek to Live: How to assign a domain name to your home web server
Trouble with phpmyadmin - Ubuntu Forums
sudo aptitude update
WordPress Installation on Ubuntu with LAMP · supriyadisw dot net
Monday, May 26, 2008
Jumping into FOSS
I've had an old PowerPC laying around as a doorstop/dust-collector for over a year. My wife has asked me to get rid of it more than once, but I kept putting her off, saying I would use it for something someday.
Saturday afternoon I got the wild notion that learning how to set up my own web server would be fun. There are quite a few flavors of Linux out there; I had no idea. I decided to go with Ubuntu server 6.06.2 with Xubuntu as the GUI.
Then, with the help of a variety of tutorials and forums, I was able to get Apache2, MySQL, and PHP all playing nicely. Throw WordPress into the mix and tada: kismet.homelinux.com is born. There isn't much there to speak of; right now it's just a sandbox for learning how to make all of this work. But who knows, if I get comfortable with all of this and can keep the installation stable, I just may work on migrating everything over.
Around 10am today I hit a wall and decided it was time for a book. I love the computer section of book stores and am a frequent browser, but this was the first time I trying to deal with something so technical. Lots of options out there, including a Dummies book for just about anything you would want to do with a computer, but overall the books fell into two categories: 1) so ungodly technical as to be nearly unreadable for someone without a CS degree or 2) a $40 restating of what I had already read online. I picked up the WordPress for Dummies book anyway--sometimes its nice to have a good overview in one place--but lots of thanks to the incredible community that has put together all the information for learning how to do something like this.
The hardest technical part was getting the IP information straight between my server, router, and DynDNS. DynDNS is pretty neat--with a free account, they provide a domain name and keep the URL pointing in the right direction if you have a dynamic IP. If I decide to stick with this, I will need to just register my own domain, but what a great way to play around and learn the ropes.
The other hard part was just keeping things straight in the server terminal. I'm so used to GUIs that adjusting my mind map of the system took some time. Fortunately, I could also surf the file structure in Xubuntu; otherwise just finding some of the files I needed would have added hours to the process.
All told, from wild, incomplete understanding of what I was tackling to a working web presence took just over 20 hours. Certainly time well spent.
Saturday afternoon I got the wild notion that learning how to set up my own web server would be fun. There are quite a few flavors of Linux out there; I had no idea. I decided to go with Ubuntu server 6.06.2 with Xubuntu as the GUI.
Then, with the help of a variety of tutorials and forums, I was able to get Apache2, MySQL, and PHP all playing nicely. Throw WordPress into the mix and tada: kismet.homelinux.com is born. There isn't much there to speak of; right now it's just a sandbox for learning how to make all of this work. But who knows, if I get comfortable with all of this and can keep the installation stable, I just may work on migrating everything over.
Around 10am today I hit a wall and decided it was time for a book. I love the computer section of book stores and am a frequent browser, but this was the first time I trying to deal with something so technical. Lots of options out there, including a Dummies book for just about anything you would want to do with a computer, but overall the books fell into two categories: 1) so ungodly technical as to be nearly unreadable for someone without a CS degree or 2) a $40 restating of what I had already read online. I picked up the WordPress for Dummies book anyway--sometimes its nice to have a good overview in one place--but lots of thanks to the incredible community that has put together all the information for learning how to do something like this.
The hardest technical part was getting the IP information straight between my server, router, and DynDNS. DynDNS is pretty neat--with a free account, they provide a domain name and keep the URL pointing in the right direction if you have a dynamic IP. If I decide to stick with this, I will need to just register my own domain, but what a great way to play around and learn the ropes.
The other hard part was just keeping things straight in the server terminal. I'm so used to GUIs that adjusting my mind map of the system took some time. Fortunately, I could also surf the file structure in Xubuntu; otherwise just finding some of the files I needed would have added hours to the process.
All told, from wild, incomplete understanding of what I was tackling to a working web presence took just over 20 hours. Certainly time well spent.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
diigo bookmarks 05/25/2008
jooce.com - power to the people
virtual desktop
From The Library of Congress
"Discover the stories of America's past..."
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
diigo bookmarks 05/22/2008
Competency Model Clearinghouse - Hospitality/Hotel and Lodging Industry Competency Model
Staples Foundation for Learning
The mission of Staples Foundation for Learning is to provide funding to programs that support or provide job skills and/or education for all people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth.
Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog
Create your website. Fast. Free. Easy. Now.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
diigo bookmarks 05/21/2008
Today's Middle Level Educator - NMSA Podcast - National Middle School Association
Today's Middle Level Educator, a podcast produced byNational Middle School Association, is the place to hear conversations,interviews, and commentaries from middle level practitioners, leaders,and experts. Listen online or subscribe to the podcast and listen onyour computer or MP3 player. Available on iTunes.
Employer of the Year: Top 50 marketing employers 2005 - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic
EA: Employer of the Year Award Winners
“We felt it was time to establish an awards program honoring great employers in Illinois that recognize employees as their greatest asset. There are many employers that work with imagination and conviction to create organizational value and business results through their policies and best practices in human resources management, ” said, Mary Pille, CAE, SPHR, EA’s President and CEO.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
diigo bookmarks 05/15/2008
Have you ever thought, ”Gosh, I wish I had time to learn more about Flickr, wikis, or (enter your Web 2.0 tool here)?” Well, this is your chance to take the time to focus on your personal and professional development around Web 2.0 tools. It’s fun to explore these tools and figure out ways to use them in the library, with your personal Web sites, or in other ways.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
diigo bookmarks 05/14/2008
ccMixter - Welcome to ccMixter
ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
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