Tag: Tech

  • Starting a war….

    This term I did a little experiment with some readings on contemporary networked warfare and learning in my HI2007, War, State and Society option. I staged the discussion in the first week to see if different sequences of readings might produce different discussions. It didn’t, but it was an interesting week.

  • Communities of Practice: Walking the Walk 2012

    Communities of Practice in Digital Scholarship (DH6001) is a core module in the Master in Digital Arts & Humanities here in UCC, and I feel the group are more than ready to  break cover from the institutional VLE and “walk the walk” in public, even if no one much is watching! For next Monday’s seminar, rather than…

  • Blogging as a Personal Learning Environment

    I’m making my Digital History students (Hi6018) create and use a blog as the anchor for their assessment portfolio in the the course, and I was hunting around for other courses using blogs, but cannot find as many as I used to be able to see.  Bill Turkel’s class at UWO are doing it, and…

  • Augmented Reality at home

    It really takes a writer to show a vision of how new technologies can change our daily lives, and in Halting State, Charles Stross has done that for me with his version of augmented reality. Standing in my barn this morning, I realised I need CopSpace here, at home.

  • Captivating

    I’m playing round with Adobe Captivate, moving slides from 3 old powerpoints on UN Peacekeeping into one Captivate presentation which I’ll use today as a flash movie, and also make available to my class as a .avi movie and  an audio only podcast.  I’m fining it a lot of work, but I think the extra…

  • Writing Structured Documents

    I promised some people yesterday a link to the current version of my handout on writing structured documents, using examples in Microsoft Word. It shows how to use styles rather than simply plastering bold, 24 point on some text – everyone who does not know how to do this already should read it.   I…

  • XML editor for students

    I spent this wet morning looking at XML editors for my digital history masters students. XML is essential for managing large collections of historical documents, and is part of a family of markup languages which now run the web, and provide the underlying infrastructure for ‘web services’. Once they understand the principles XML is a…

  • Slow Night

    I finally got the moodle signup screencast uploaded this morning, but it  was still very slow. Last night I was only getting upload speeds of 3k/s, which is slower than dialup, and it never got above 10k/s this morning. The video was shot using Camstudio, which is free, and edited down to a reasonable size…

  • Web reaches the barn

    Whoot! I’ve got network connectivity out to my office in the barn, at last. For some of you this is no big deal, but between digging the trench, locating external grade CAT5 cable and above all, getting all those fiddly little green-white and brown-white striped wires into the right slots on an RJ45 jack, it…

  • I finally ‘get’ Livejournal

    Now that I’ve added a few friends to my LJ, and I can read their LJ posts on my friends page, I can see how it works. Hopping from friends to their friends with similar interests, like science fiction, gaming or neo-techo-paganism, is easier than surfing the ‘blogosphere’, and I think the LJ process of…

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