The presentation looks pretty good, especially if you go into full screen mode. I don’t know if it handles really complex powerpoint but the straightforward, page-turner stuff looks pretty good. Now we just need an interface for making the presentations and I won’t need to deal with Microsoft Office ever again! Or at least, not [...]
It is now all finished. The project is complete, even after some major setbacks. The paper that accompanies the project is done. And the presentation was this morning. Done, done and done. I still have one more class before I can add more letters after my name, but the big hurdle is finished. One of [...]
Drupal 5.0 released I’ve set up a few sites, like openthinking.ca, with Drupal. This latest version looks fantastic with a new default theme that can have its colour scheme configured from within Drupal. The usability of the administration of a Drupal powered site just improved by an order of magnitude with the revision and enhancement [...]
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Just saw this via Brian Lamb: Stewart Mader has published a book Using Wiki in Education, which has some interesting sounding (I haven’t actually read the book yet, so this is one of those Read The Fine Article reviews) case studies of wikis being integrated into a variety of settings. Stewart’s publishing model is an [...]
Here’s a great post from Kathy Sierra Creating Passionate Users: If Tech Companies Made Sudoku Sudoku is perfect. It can be as engaging, addictive, and flow-inducing as the flashiest real-time rendered, explosion-filled game on the planet. But I can’t help imagine what would happen if someone like, say, Microsoft had designed it. Check out her [...]
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
I have to admit that my reservations about Apple co-opting podcast production and distribution are beginning to falter. I still have a bad feeling about GarageBand because it seems to produce podcasts only in Apple’s proprietary formats (or am I mistaken about this? Please let me know). These probably could be converted to standard formats [...]
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
A List Apart: Articles: Home Page Goals Derek Powazek shares some ideas about the craft of designing home pages for web sites. I like his emphasis on the other pages, the atomic elements, of a web site. These are the important pages and looking at the traffic on a web site will confirm this. The [...]
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Jeffrey Zeldman has pronounced his judgement on the Web 2.0 hype in A List Apart: Web 3.0. Much of his discontent seems to spring from an incident with a Web 2.0 boor: “Web 1.0 was not disruptive. You understand? Web 2.0 is totally disruptive. You know what XML is? You’ve heard about well-formedness? Okay. So [...]
Monday, November 21, 2005
Trey Martindale has written down a few pointers, supposedly as reminders for himself, onHow to give a tolerable presentation. These are good pointers for everyone, especially about not reading your slides to people and not putting bullet points on the screen just to remind you what to say. I have a presentation to give on [...]
Thursday, September 8, 2005
I’ve been doing a lot of work at school lately putting together screencasts, mainly as a training tool for teachers working with various computer programs, and I notice that screencasts were also mentioned today by Heather Ross and Will Richardson in their blogs. I think that screencasts can be a powerful tool for learning, but [...]