Twitter Updates: 2007-04-20
- Getting prepped for an off-site media setup - big fundraising effort for campus PE center. Lots of big mucky-mucks. Oh boy! #
- @crafty184: Firefox baby! If only to have a backup browser! #
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teaching, learning and changeTwitter Updates: 2007-04-20
- Getting prepped for an off-site media setup - big fundraising effort for campus PE center. Lots of big mucky-mucks. Oh boy! #
- @crafty184: Firefox baby! If only to have a backup browser! #
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Diigo Links 04/07/2007
New bar codes can talk with your cell phone | CNET News.com Annotated
- I originally found this article in the NY Times but refused to link to them until they get rid of their foolish practice of requiring a “free” registration to view.
Between motion sensing, barcode reading and flexible screens, the tech that can be placed into a cell phone could take the concept of convergence to a new level.
- post by edventures
With a wave, the phone can read encoded information on everyday objects and translate that into videos, pictures or text files on its screen.
Motion-sensing comes to mobile phones | CNET News.com Annotated
- Who needs a Wii when you have your cell phone?
- post by edventures
The same technology used in Nintendo’s popular Wii video game console that lets you bowl strikes and hit tennis volleys like you’re Venus Williams is also making its way into mobile handsets.
www.sifry.com: State of the Blogosphere / State of the Live Web
- This page has links to the quarterly state of the blogosphere reports coming out of Sifry.com going back to October 2004.
- post by edventures
KickRSS :: Create An Aggregated RSS Feed
- Sounds like SuprGlu - take multiple feeds and create as Wes Fryer terms it, a “Feed River.”
- post by edventures
Education Week: Let’s Abolish High School Annotated
Were our young people always required to attend school, and were their work opportunities always limited to babysitting, yard work, and cleaning the floors at fast-food joints? Were they always subject to so many restrictions? Are teenagers necessarily incompetent and irresponsible, as the media tell us?
- From Slashdot:
Microsoft announced their new Live Maps, in addition to supporting Firefox on Windows for 3D, now supports the GeoRSS standard. They join Google which recently announced the support of GeoRSS and KML mapping in their Google Maps API. In short, GeoRSS is a standard supported by the Open Geospatial Consortium that incorporates geolocation in an interoperable manner to RSS feeds. The applications are numerous. With Yahoo!’s support of GeoRSS, all the major players are in and the future looks bright for this emerging standard.- post by edventures
Twitter Updates: 2007-04-04
So for those wondering, these posts are tests of the Twitter to blog option of the Twitter Tools Plugin. I’m curious to see if or how this stream of consciousness post adds value to my blog. Probably less interesting to those following on RSS but personally, I’ve been finding utility in Twitter from the standpoint that folks Tweet on things that wouldn’t necessarily be blog-worthy but have value to those in their network. As an example, I’ve shared a few interesting Tweets with Luis Suarez, D’Arcy Norman and Jeff Utecht and added a new node (and kindred spirit) to my network - Jeff VanDrimmelen of UNC-Chapel Hill.
If you are curious about Twitter, feel free to add me to your list http://twitter.com/edventures as the search features leave a lot to be desired. Right now I use the trial and error method. Find someone I know, check out their friends and add those that are mutual and in some cases, make new connections I might not have otherwise.
Not sure how long I’ll keep posting these Twitter updates. I do wish there was a way to set it to post privately so that I can continue to log my days but not bore the world.
- Watching NCIS and looking for K-12 science tech grants for my better half. #
- Wondering why Tweetr was earlier posting dups of my posts and now won’t post at all?!?! Grrr….. #
- Hitting the rack and hoping the Red Sox have a better game Wednesday than they did on opening day! #
- Digging thru the morning’s email deluge #
- Grrr…. Tweetr is ticking me off. Won’t post! #
- @elsua: I have the same frustration with Firefox and Flock. Memory bloat is a big problem. Of course I do have a tendency to hoard tabs! #
- @edutechie: Me too! http://diigo.com/user/edventures
Maggie Tsai and co. are doing bang-up work! # - @edutechie: There is the Groups feature but it doesn’t appear to have the same “friend” tracking that I enjoy in del.icio.us #
- @edutechie: The highlighting aspect is particularly useful from an educational standpoint - gleaning and sharing the nuggets with learners. #
- @jutecht: Rock on, I’m glad to have you aboard. Will you be using (cough) WebCT this summer? #
- @jutecht: Theme looks great. Check the blogroll tho’, it tweaks in Firefox. It flies horizontal rather than vertical like the rest. #
- Thanks jutecht for the heads-up on the WordPress Twitter widget. Just installed it and it’s tracking nicely. #
- @jutecht: Let’s catch up sometime - maybe on Skype? You can find me as edventures #
- @jutecht: Looking forward to it! #
- @jutecht: G’night J! #
- @dnorman: Do you have the link for Open Education 2007? Yah, I’m being lazy. #
- @dnorman: Thanks! #
- ITS Managers Meeting, then Online Ed Task Force meeting, then video editing support for a student called to active duty. #
- Hmm… Mozilla Coop? Check out http://tinyurl.com/2b34kc #
- Throw in a little Twitter action, integrated screen/webpage sharing/markup and you’ve got one interesting collaborative tool. #
- Wow, Firefox tabs are cranking with new things to think about. Stream of consciousness links will follow… #
- http://swivel.com
A wild tool for mashing up data and presenting it in graphic format online. # - Custom Google Map from Google Spreadsheet data
http://tinyurl.com/2fcyqs # - http://www.epsilen.com
A hosted ePortfolio solution currently offering free samples during their beta period. # - View my sample at http://jemartin.plymouth.epsilen.com #
- Wow, 2 consecutive 1000+ hit days to http://edventures.whitemountaintech.net
Wonder where the traffic is coming from? # - Ok Twitter stop mashing up my links - http://edventures.whitemountaintech.net #
- Hmmm… A Master’s degree in Social Computing from UMich (http://www.si.umich.edu/msi/sc.htm) - wonder if any of it is available online? #
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Two hundred posts
It took me a year to hit 100 posts and just four months to hit 200.
My thanks to the edublogosphere for the wealth of ideas to chew on and to Diigo for the annotated link posts. Diigo has been a wonderful tool. I really like the way it helps me organize my ideas, it has changed my approach. It still has it’s rough edges but I have to say that Maggie Tsai and crew have been really responsive to community feedback.
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Which Programming Language Are You?
I’ve seen this “quiz” floating around the blogosphere for the past few days so I thought I’d give it a whirl. Now bear in mind I’m no programmer. I know enough to ID php or html in a line-up and wrote a bit of BASIC in the good old days of my TI-99A and the Trash-80 TRS-80, those silly choose your own adventure games but that’s about it. So how did I fare on this quiz? Take a look…
The description fits me to a T, but what the hell is PROLOG anyway?
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Happy Holidays and a Blogging New Year
It may be next year when I get to post again so in the meantime may I extend a warm holiday greeting and my best wishes to my friends, family and those I have yet to meet. And to my brothers and sisters in arms overseas, you are not forgotten. Stay safe and I hope that you can soon return home to the ones you love.
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An Administrator’s Guide to Online Education
Authored by Kaye Shelton and George Saltsman, this book is part of the USDLA series on Distance Learning, this book discusses issues surrounding the logistics, practices and politics of administering an online education program.
An Administrator’s Guide to Online Education
ISBN: 1-59311-424-9
Technorati Tags: OnlineEd, reading, online, education, administrator
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Interesting theme problem
I’ve been modifying my theme and in Flock and Firefox the blog background is was entirely black, yet in Internet Explorer, the background of the post area is was white and the area surrounding the blog content area is was black. Not quite sure what the issue is was but it’s an interesting problem to say the least.
UPDATE: Ok, so Matt rocks! He gave me some hints on how to improve my code.
The problem is that your theme is floating the content div left and floating the sidebar left. In CSS - on Mozilla browsers - a floated element does not influence the height of the parent element. In your case, the div “container” is the parent element and because it effectively has no height-adjusting elements, the “container” div (which is what has the white background) does not expand down the page.
1. Keep it Div - This one can be a pain.
Make one of the divs (either the content div or the sidebar div) not float. The easiest way to choose would be the one that will always be the longest in length…most likely the content div. Once you have removed the float, you may need to fiddle around with the width of the content div to prevent the sidebar div from wrapping to the bottom of the page. The drawback is this: Sometimes your sidebar may be longer than your content.
2. Go Oldschool - This one is archaic but functional.
The fact of the matter is, div layouts are a pain to fiddle with to get working with all browsers all the time. I still haven’t mastered it and it takes a lot of tweaking. What you can do is use a table:
[table]
[tr]
[td valign="top" style="width: 550px"]Your content (divs and all) go in here[/td]
[td valign="top" style="width: 200px"]Your sidebar (divs and all) go in here[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]The oldschool way would be the easiest to implement with the quickest results. The drawbacks? Well, its an oldschool way of doing things…layout with tables. Its frowned upon by some, but lets face it…tables are extremely functional and should be used where necessary to keep the end user’s experience consistent across browsers.
I won’t say that I understood all of it as I am still learning the finer points of CSS coding but the bottom line is that I removed the float from the content div and now all seems to be well.
Performancing Metrics
This came across one of my feeds from Albert Delgado. Seems like the same fine folks who brought you the Performancing plug-in for Firefox have also created a traffic monitoring process called Performancing Metrics. I configured my account this morning, so we will see what the day brings us.
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