tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132253612024-03-12T22:06:17.758-06:00I've moved to blog.boora.ca, please head over there for more content.idarknighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842535590445373996noreply@blogger.comBlogger481125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13225361.post-1158268649583059392006-09-14T15:13:00.000-06:002007-06-19T10:41:10.654-06:00

Well, I've joined the others on my feeds by getting my own domain and moving off of Blogger. It's been good to me, but at the same time, I think having my online presence in one place is a better move on my part. I'll keep this here for a while, at least until my new blog gets picked up in search engines and the like. Continued on my new site.

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I've been reading Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and am currently going through a section on what he calls "stickiness". The elements that make a message stick, and as an example he used Sesame Street and Blue's Clues. Up to the point that I'm in right now, I think it's a great chapter for all instructional designers to flip through, especially those working with younger children. So for

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I'm prepping a presentation on SimSchool that I'll be giving tomorrow and as impressed as I was with it at SITE 2006, I'm more so now that I'm starting to work with it a little more, it is becoming even more impressive in what it can do to help get those sticky classroom situations under control. If there is anything notable tomorrow, I'll be sure to put it up, but in the mean time, if you have

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Well, this one has email and full on php and all the rest. boora.org is live and I'm trying out the "Google Apps for My Domain" as well as the Joomla Open Source Content Management System. I'm still testing that out so it's going to be a while before that goes live, but until it does, I've just copied over my old site. I have to admit, I did this because I'm getting a really good deal, but in my

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Moon Originally uploaded by idarknight.It's not the moon from last night - I couldn't get a decent shot from where I am in the city, but this one is pretty good as well. Hopefully I'll be able to get some extension tubes in the future and up the length of my lens (unless I get lucky and someone gives me a 300mm) to get closer, but in the mean time, I've got a good setup for training.

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A colleague passed this on to me - the MouseSite that shows the demo that was the first use of the mouse a well as many other technologies that we are just now starting to use.

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I just saw this on C|Net and on Google News. The Blackberry Pearl nee Blackberry 8100 is coming and is pointed at consumers. Looking at it, it seems that it's taken the best of the SLVR and the Nokia Smartphones and rolled them into a RIM package for about $200. I only hope that it will accept files from bluetooth devices (I've tried to send files to other Blackberry users to no avail - it

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I found a few interesting things this morning - the first an individual playing chicken with a train, the second, a report about the Digital Divide that still exists in the US between "races" (nee melatoninly differentiated populations maintained by social and economic inequity) and the last is that Writely is now accepting new registrations (completing the network based Google Office, no Safari

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I saw this in the mall today and hadn't seen it baly-hooed anywhere, but Roger's Portable Internet has arrived. It uses OFDM to wirelessly connect clients using WiMax. It may have arrived as early as April, but this is the first that I've seen it. Technorati Tags: WiMax, OFDM, Roger's Portable Internet

idarknighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842535590445373996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13225361.post-1157148874881614892006-09-01T15:58:00.000-06:002006-09-01T16:22:20.866-06:00

Well, Google is certainly making it hard for users of Apple's .mac service to justify the cost per year. Granted for the extra money you get more webspace and for a person like me with quite the number of photos that are likely to wind up online, that may be the deal breaker - synching from handhelds using the computer and online storage space. Today I found Picasa Web Albums Uploader. It

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Lightning Originally uploaded by idarknight.This week was a toss up between this shot (one that I thought that I would never get), one of the moon (which turned out very nice, but I know I can do better with a tripod and a larger moon) and a wasp nest that is being built outside my bedroom window.I decided on this one because of a story that my bother was telling me that he was trying to capture

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Check it out. I just got it so I'm still looking it over. Found this online as well from Michael Chasen: Patent interpretation is complex and there are a lot of misperceptions out there in discussions on this issue. Having been involved in the e-Learning arena for years and witnessed so many advancements from a variety of sources, I continue to be embarrassed when it is suggested that

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In the article that I just posted, Burgess brings up something called lomography. I'd heard about it some time ago living in Res (ah Penbina Hall, too bad you are office space now) and this article brought me back to it. As I was reading on the Travel Photography Blog, I noticed a link to lomo and it hit me - cell phones, even with all their increasing MPs and ever improving lenses could be

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I'm working to finish up some edits for my eLearn paper and I came across this great article. Jean Burgess has done a great job with this paper and when I get the time I'll put up more from it. Technorati Tags: Digital Storytelling

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Like many people, I generally only use Google to search for sites/information online. It's fast and reliable and it's not "evil". But what has got me a bit jaded of late is a website that I designed (Chandler Stewin Psychological Institute) a few months ago now is still not indexed by Google, despite it being indexed with the keywords "chandler stewin psychological institute" in Yahoo and Live

idarknighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842535590445373996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13225361.post-1156892271846280712006-08-29T16:55:00.000-06:002006-08-29T16:59:02.976-06:00

CBC has an interesting article, likely spurred by the Desire2Learn "patent infringement" (maybe I should patent patent infringement??). Not anythng that we don't know but it may be useful for those who are just outside "the know". PS is Safari still flaking out for people trying to login to Blogger? Technorati Tags: Blackboard

idarknighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842535590445373996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13225361.post-1156774732940997812006-08-28T08:16:00.000-06:002006-08-28T08:19:25.683-06:00

Well, I've been trying to decide about getting GMail running for my domain (changing it from a referrer to a host) and I've post about Google Office a few times, but according to the news the Office suite is going to be called - "Google Apps for your Domain". There doesn't seem to be a word processor, so I'm not sure how far it'll reach right now (without Writely that is). Technorati Tags:

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Along with Blogger/Blogger Beta being a bit flakey of late (I had to rebuild my template on Friday, logins are getting mixed up and the Google Notifier on the Mac lets you know that there is something there waiting for you, but you can't go check it out - so I'm staying with the older one for now) and not posting this entry repeatedly, this is something I found. Well, I knew this would not take

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Well it's not a single picture, but it's my Mexico gallery. My new redirect/gallery main/welcome page has been updated as well.

idarknighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842535590445373996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13225361.post-1156453439848353882006-08-24T15:02:00.000-06:002006-08-24T15:04:45.360-06:00

Kudos Weird Al for poking a pointy stick into RIAA and their sort! The song is pretty cool as well. Technorati Tags: Weird Al, Copyright

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Calgoo may be the answer to being able to interact with Google Calendar off line. They say that it will be available for mobile devices shortly but hopefully there will be a means of connecting changes made on the mobile unit to the gCal directly. In the mean time iCal is a decent solution as long as you have .mac to host the calendars. One question that someone asked me in an email this

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CBC ran a story online today concerning students buying laptops and what they should be looking at. It's a decent look into the subject, but there are a couple things that I would have changed and one major fact that they overlooked. First they claim that 256MB is enough for RAM. I don't know what OS they are running, but 512 is the least you should leave the gate with and the 1GB that they

idarknighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842535590445373996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13225361.post-1156342752873543432006-08-23T08:18:00.000-06:002006-08-23T16:10:34.353-06:00

I'm surprised it isn't bloggr (that is what I typed first). Anyway, if you want to take a peak - it's here (tour). I tried to move but got this message :( So I've started another blog - Shooting in the Dark - for photos... I was going to call it Yet another Photo Blog, but as you can see, that is not very original. Why can't I switch to Blogger in beta? While the new version of Blogger is

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Well, now that Google has it's new notifier out (it's really buggy) it also looks like they have made the calendar work with Safari and it seems that the updates are now quite a bit quicker than they were in the past. Now I'm really pondering if I should stay on .mac or move off to a DIY solution. I'm torn because the killer feature on .mac for me is not so much the iLife integration - with

idarknighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842535590445373996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13225361.post-1156189603995074552006-08-21T13:45:00.000-06:002006-08-21T13:47:05.333-06:00

A colleague in another part of the vastness that is the Uni, sent me this link wwwTools for Teachers: Wikis. There are some good links there. Technorati Tags: Wiki

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