An election hasn’t even been called, but The Harper Government has been running ads nonstop, trying to discredit any alternatives to The Conservative Party of Canada. The attack ads have to stop. I just signed the petition by the Green Party to try to reign in this madness.
For the likely 2011 federal election, I refuse to vote for any party that runs attack ads. Stand for something, not against.
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The intro for DS106 Radio has become pretty much burned into my brain. I don’t know who made the clip, but they took a segment of Cyrus’s speech from The Warriors, and smushed it into some marching band music (?).
The intro bumper from the best damned freeform internet radio station on the planet. Can you dig it? Can you DIG it? CANNNN YOUUUU DIIIIIIIGGGG IIIIIIITTTTTT? Yes. Yes, I can.
Read MoreI just saw a link retweeted by David Porter, pointing to an interesting post by Mark Smithers.
Mark’s post is a great read, on why lecture capture may not be what we think it is, nor do what we think it does.
But, I don’t think that necessarily makes the technology bad. Yes, it offers a tempting crutch to lazy instructors. Look! My lecture is available online! I’m totally innovative and engaging. Next slide.
Read MoreIt’s been almost 6 months since I killed all active analytics on my blogs. I scrubbed it of Google Analytics and WordPress.com Stats. The only numbers I get now are passive and highly aggregated and anonymized, webserver logs automatically crunched by Urchin.
I don’t miss the detailed active analytics one bit. I still find out if anyone links to my stuff, through the WordPress Dashboard links widget. But I have no clue about how many people read my stuff, nor how many RSS subscribers there are.
Read MoreTim Bray tried a little experiment to list browser-suggested URLs for each letter of the alphabet. Thought I’d give it a shot:
I do much (most?) of my reading through my RSS reader (which runs as a subdirectory of darcynorman.net, which, I’d bet, is why my own domain is listed twice above). The stuff listed here is mostly stuff I use directly and regularly, or stuff that got bounced out of my RSS reader for some reason. (or, stuff that’s linked from gruber’s daringfireball.net, most likely…)
Read MoreThis is how education was predicted to advance by the year 2000, as seen from 1910.
Villemard, 1910
À l’ École
from visions de l’an 2000, via photozz
Turn that crank! Absorb those LORs! OERs for everyone!
Read MoreI had a bit of a duh/ahah! moment this evening. We’ve been messing around with Nicecast to broadcast audio from Skype and iTunes, and it hit me that it would be able to pick up sound from GarageBand just fine, too. Broadcasting live guitar jams over Radio DS106.
I plugged my guitar into my amp, and connected the headphone jack from the amp to the line-in on my MacBook Pro. I plugged my headphones into the headphone jack on the computer, so I could hear as I “played.”
Read MoreYes please, Calgary.
(via PlanetBike’s twitter feed)
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Get away from it all.
Mayday, mayday. Can anyone hear me? Over. This is U.S. Station 31. Do you read me? We found something in the ice. We need some help down here. Can anybody hear me? We found something… We found something… We found something…
Read MoreThis almost never happens. But I took the time to nuke old emails that I didn’t need to keep, and dump stuff that is no longer relevant. An inbox cleansing is very cathartic. Merlin would approve. (but it probably won’t last very long…)
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I’m changing roles on campus, switching from being an educational technology consultant and instructional designer in the Teaching & Learning Centre, to an IT Partner. I’ll be officially part of the IT department, and will be working closely with the TLC and additional units. We’ll be fleshing out the details in the coming days and weeks, but it’s going to be a fun process. For the first part of the process, I’ll still be in the same office at the TLC, so while things will be changing, they will also be rather familiar.
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alternate version:
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