love story for your life

I’m a fan of the idea of living your life on your own terms, finding or even stumbling your way to happiness, nurturing your creative spark, and insisting on keeping your positive attitude even in the face of your most obnoxious frienemies. So, yeah, I find Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture” pretty inspiring. Pausch, who died last week [...]

NASA’s birthday

It’s NASA’s birthday – 50 years (where has the time gone?). Find historic photos, videos and more at their website: http://www.nasa.gov/50th/home
Below, see 50 Years of Exploration – Part 1

podcasting news

From The Wired News of The Chronicle of Higher Education:
“A patent application filed by an Apple employee details software that would capture video and slides from college lectures and automatically edit them into video podcasts.”
See the article here.

more about tweets

You may have read some of my previous posts about Twitter. It’s not for everyone, but it’s getting some attention in education circles. (Find a tutorial on how to tweet here.) I’d like to add a little bit of information here that’s local: Dr. Christopher Rice here at UK has a couple of blog entries [...]

fun with fonts

I always wondered how Wingdings ended up in my word processing software. See this College Humor video of the Font Conference and you’ll view Arial Narrow in a whole new way.

ideafestival 2008

It’s not too early to be thinking about IdeaFestival, scheduled this year for Sept. 25-27 in Louisville. Speakers include filmmakers, architects, scientists, authors, educators and more. Teller will be there to communicate the science and wonder of magic. Visit the IF website at http://www.ideafestival.com/. If you’re going, tickets are available for individual presentations or  in an [...]

shall we play a game?

Can you hear this post’s title in a “computer voice”? Then you probably remember WarGames, possibly with great fondness. Remember when we were all just learning what to do with “home computers”?  A modem? Well, that’s just crazy cool, being able to talk to other computers over the phone! Little did we, the non-computer-literati of [...]

best practices for online video

A previous post discusses the Center for Social Media’s Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video.  Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education features an interview with Pat Aufderheide, who has been a leader in that initiative. See the article here.

tutorials on video

Check on the videos I’m posting in my Vodpod  (look in column to left for list) – I’ve just posted two new tutorials: Google Docs and Facebook. Oh, and an amusing video parody of Facebook in “real life.” Vodpod has been very helpful in posting resources for Blue 2.0.

give us a wilhelm scream!

I subscribe to the feed from boingboing.net, and the strange and wonderful things it brings me are … well, strange and wonderful. Perfect example: The Wilhelm Scream. I was reading the caption of a video taken by someone who was hit by lightening while recording (she survived), and part of it said that her scream [...]