August 2006 – Page 2 – Designed to Inspire

Indiana University: Center for Reseach on Learning and Technology

August 26, 2006

The Center for Research on Learning and Technology (CRLT) at Indiana University's School of Education provides some great resources, research and publications including video presentations, journal articles and papers, that focus on teaching, learning and technology. One long running CRLT project, directed by Professor Thomas Duffy, is the Learning to Teach with Technology Studio (LTTS). […]

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Meebome Update: I had my first chat with a visitor!!

August 24, 2006

I had my first meebome chat with a visitor. I was working away at my computer when I heard the familiar meebo ping that someone wants to chat and there was a site guest with my first meebome "hi" – what a fun surprise! Since it is anonymous, I doubt he / she will care,

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Effective Writing and Presentation for Instruction

August 24, 2006

My new textbooks have started to roll in and I am getting really excited about digging into the new semester! I flipped through the texts for my Effective Writing in Instructional Technology course. The books hit on all the "common sense" factors that often are lost in the excitement of jazzing up a Power Point

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Meebome IM Widget Works Great!

August 23, 2006

As I mentioned in a prior post, meebo is my IM client of choice. I had trouble at first installing the meebo me widget, but today I no problem getting it up and running on my left sidebar (check it out) and it is working great! I can tell within meebo.com if someone is on

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Mobile Internet Usage Report

August 21, 2006

Telephia recently released a report on mobile Internet usage. While the subscriber rate is increasing, the access and experience still lags far behind Internet browsing via the computer. According to their research, 34.6m mobile subscribers (presumably just in Europe, US and Canada?) accessed the Internet on their mobile device in June 2006 – up about

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iTunes Handles Podcast .pdf File Enclosers – Who Knew?

5 Comments / August 21, 2006

Playing around with iTunes podcasts today, I noticed that iTunes recognizes .pdf file enclosures in podcasts and allows you to add .pdf files to your iTunes Library. I guess this may be old news to some, but it was news to me. Cool idea for distributing class bulletins and notes, turning in assignments, responding to

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Bloglines: Turns out to be an awesome Mobile Device RSS Reader, too

August 19, 2006

I have tried what seems like a million RSS aggregators and keep coming back to Bloglines. It has proven to be an efficient web based solution when I'm on my laptop (that I can also access from any computer when I'm away from home), but it is by far the best option I have come

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Yippie!! Writely.com is Back in Business

August 19, 2006

Thanks for the heads up from Nancy White at Full Circle OIB – Writely is back! One of my IU group's gave Zohowriter.com a try when it wasn't clear what was happening with Writely after Google gobbled it up, but I found that I prefer the functionality I was excited about the first time I

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Technorati – Blog Claim

August 18, 2006

I’m not sure the purpose, but I am “claiming” my blog in Technorati! Technorati Profile

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Blackboard to Sakai: No plans to challenge open source projects on patent

1 Comment / August 18, 2006

As noted in my post last night, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) was retained by Sakai to evaluate and advise on the Blackboard patent. This morning, Inside Higher Ed ran a post containing responses from Blackboard's general counsel, Matthew Small, about Sakai retaining the SFLC, as well as Blackboard's general desire to work with

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