My personal
web-log space – a spot to capture some thoughts, comment on articles of interest, make note of some headlines from the news – has a educational technology bias.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Interactive Orals @ ACTFL
Presentation at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Annual Convention in San Diego. Co-presenting with three F&M colleagues. My portion of the presentation - Principles of Effective Presentations (In Ten Minutes or Less) - is being delivery virtually! Not that I wouldn't mind being in San Diego.
2:13:58 PM
Blog Neglect
I've been neglecting my blog since the move to the Harris Center. The Summer and early Fall was über busy with the move and getting things established in the new space. And I must admit, I've been spending much more time posting items on our teaching, leaning, and technology blog - http://tlt.fandm.edu/ .
2:09:19 PM
Monday, June 1, 2009
Oscar's Moving
After 17 years of computing in Stager Hall, my new compute commute at Franklin & Marshall after today will be in the Harris Center.
Danke schöne Stager und Auf Wiedersehen!
11:29:30 AM
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
mLearning Pilot Project at F&M
16 faculty, 16 iPod touches, and 12 months ... we'll let you know what we discover!
10:50:30 AM
Monday, April 13, 2009
RIP Coolstuff Blog
After six years of reliable service, we're going "cold turkey" and shutting down and moving the group blog for technology staff at Franklin & Marshall - Coolstuff.
The new blog - TLT at Franklin & Marshall - is at tltatfandm.wordpress.com. RIP Coolstuff! We're movin' into the Cloud.
8:48:37 AM
Friday, April 3, 2009
YouTube Nonprofit Raises $10,000 in One Day Using Overlay Ads YouTube recently launched a new "Call to Action" feature for YouTube's nonprofit partners, which allows them to use InVideo overlays to drive traffic to an off-YouTube web page, where they can collect signatures, email addresses, or even donations. Already, we're seeing nonprofit organizations use this new feature with great success.
On March 26, 2009, to commemorate World Water Day, YouTube featured a video from charity:water on the YouTube homepage. The video included a Call to Action overlay that encouraged YouTube users to donate money to help build wells and provide clean, safe drinking water for those who don't have it.
The response from the YouTube community was overwhelming -- thanks to you, charity:water was able to raise over $10,000 in one day from the video. That's enough to build two brand-new wells in the Central African Republic and give over 150 people clean drinking water for 20 years!
[YouTube Blog]
8:46:39 AM
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Extreme Ice Survey - Seeing Is Believing
The Extreme Ice Survey is the most wide-ranging glacier study ever conducted using ground-based, real-time photography. EIS uses time-lapse photography, conventional photography, and video to document the rapid changes now occuring on the Earth's glacial ice. The EIS team has installed 27 time-lapse cameras at 15 sites in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, and the Rocky Mountains. EIS supplements this ongoing record with annual repeat photography in Iceland, the Alps, and Bolivia.
