I was working with a colleague today on embedding a Picasa slideshow into our school web site (running on Drupal). This is a very kludgy solution, but it did the trick. The screencast was done mainly so I wouldn’t forget but might be of value to someone else. Let me know if you find this [...]
Archive for February, 2009
The End of Ephemera
2009/02/25Note – I wrote this in the wee hours last night but couldn’t post it due to DNS issues with my web site (again – Grrrr!). I think that it might read like something weakly formed in the wee hours, and I thought about deleting it, but that would be contrary to the spirit of [...]
A guide for the overwhelmed part 3 – blogging is dead, long live the blog
2009/02/24I just read Alan Levine’s latest post about quitting blogging. Well, he’s not actually quitting blogging – he’s going to quit blogging about blogging, although he did blog that he’s not going to blog about blogging. It’s making my head hurt in a manner reminiscent of the “Small is tall” video.
I include the video [...]
Another chat with the Posse
2009/02/20Yesterday was the third Thursday of the month so 80% of the EdTech Posse (Dean Shareski, Alec Couros and Rick Schwier along with me), as well as many friends who joined us in the ustream chat room, once again gathered by the campfire for good conversation (Heather Ross is still on maternity leave but I’m hoping she’ll be able [...]
Another chat with the Posse
2009/02/20Yesterday was the third Thursday of the month so 80% of the EdTech Posse (Dean Shareski, Alec Couros and Rick Schwier along with me), as well as many friends who joined us in the ustream chat room, once again gathered by the campfire for good conversation (Heather Ross is still on maternity leave but I’m hoping she’ll be able [...]
Inaugural podcast – Darren Kuropatwa presentation
2009/02/13I was virtually present yesterday as Darren Kuropatwa presented to teachers from the Living Sky School Division. As I mentioned in my last blog post, we had originally intended to use Elluminate, but ended up having Darren talk to us on WiZiQ while we watched his slides that he had already loaded to Slideshare. I [...]
Inaugural podcast – Darren Kuropatwa presentation
2009/02/13I was virtually present yesterday as Darren Kuropatwa presented to teachers from the Living Sky School Division. As I mentioned in my last blog post, we had originally intended to use Elluminate, but ended up having Darren talk to us on WiZiQ while we watched his slides that he had already loaded to Slideshare. I [...]
Sometimes plan B works better
2009/02/12I just finished participating in an online presentation with Darren Kuropatwa (audio forthcoming) which almost didn’t happen. The presentation was to my school division’s in-school instructional technology support teachers (iSITS – gotta find a better acronym). Our fearless leader, Donna DesRoches, had arranged for us to gather in Elluminate for the presentation but there were [...]
PTO with Google tasks (and other Gmail goodness)
2009/02/03Again, I find myself in the position of being a rabid Google fanboy, this time over the development of their new task list manager. First it appeared as a nice little add-on courtesy of Gmail Labs:
But the Gmail blog posted recently that it now comes as an iGoogle widget:
and – drum roll please – as [...]
