Open Monologue
Just because I'm making it up as I go along doesn't mean I don't know what I'm doing

Archive for October, 2008

I am a folksonomic mess

2008/10/21

Just checking stats for the blog, and I saw that I had 49 posts (and this would be # 50) and 144 tags (and I’m adding #145 and # 146). Apparently I need to tighten up my tagging schema a bit. Or outsource to a librarian. This is a good example why I would be [...]

I need a SLD that talks to a PLN/PLE

2008/10/21

I’m a big supporter of the personalized learning network/environment as a toolset for self directed learning. I have found mine immensely helpful in my professional and personal learning. I like the diagram that Scott Leslie has put together to describe his (and mine) PLE. I’d like to help my students develop the same sort of [...]

Newsflash – iGoogle is now Web 2.0

2008/10/16

Look – rounded corners: Don’t you just want to lick that beautiful Web 2.0 eye candy! More about the new iGoogle at Google Operating System and from Google

Adding binary numbers explained in 2 minutes

2008/10/07

I put this together for my online Computer Science 20 class. I’m going to be adding more screencasts/powerpoint-casts to the course during this school year. Watch here for more in the future.

Tweaking

2008/10/06

2 in the morning seems to be my prime time for tweaking the look of the blog. I wish that my brain would wind down earlier in the evening (like around midnight) so I could get a decent amount of sleep! The current theme is called Google Chrome and it is based on the look [...]

Not quite there yet

2008/10/03

Dang – the asides are showing up in my main RSS feed, which is not what I want. I’d like the asides to be excluded from the main feed but have their own dedicated feed. I think that is a problem that will have to wait.

Nearly 2 a.m.

2008/10/03

So I’ve been playing around with AsidePress as a way to publish aside posts and I think that it’s finally working. Yay! I’ve just looked at the clock and I see that it’s nearly 2 a.m. Boo! Why do I do this to myself?