botheredbybees http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org love the honey (worried about the buzzing in my ears) Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:31:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 links for 2008-09-03 http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2008/09/04/links-for-2008-09-03/ http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2008/09/04/links-for-2008-09-03/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:31:08 +0000 oldcodgertater http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2008/09/04/links-for-2008-09-03/
  • commonly-used-VET-elearning-apps-v1-0.pdf (application/pdf Object)
    Basic technical requirements for commonly used VET e-learning applications such as skype voip adobe connect breeze centra discoverE and elluminate
    (tags: elearning education e-learning communications skype voip adobe connect breeze centra discovere elluminate)
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  • vetvirtual.com – Home
    a collegial and collaborative space, set up to trial the use of high capacity connectivity for real time teaching and meeting spaces for the VET sector as part of the Access to Bandwidth Project, which is part of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework.
    (tags: virtual training teaching resources online meeting framework facilitation videoconferencing vet classroom)
    • ]]>     http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2008/09/03/links-for-2008-09-02/feed/ 1     the picture’s flickering, but I can still make it out http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2008/09/02/the-pictures-flickering-but-i-can-still-make-it-out/ http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2008/09/02/the-pictures-flickering-but-i-can-still-make-it-out/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:52:46 +0000 oldcodgertater http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/?p=409

    Here’s a picture of Bathurst TAFE that’s been altered using an open source photo manipulation program (the GIMP) to change it into a circular panorama. After creating planet TAFE I uploaded it to flickr and made it into the image you see here using the bighugelabs poster maker.

    You can see a bigger version by clicking on the image above, or by visiting the original on flickr

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  • Eloquent JavaScript — interactive tutorial
    a digital book providing a comprehensive introduction (tutorial) to the JavaScript programming language. Apart from a bookful of text, it contains plenty of example programs, and an environment to try them out and play with them.
    (tags: tutorials programming javascript ebook)
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  • Seed: Out of the Blue
    an article on a bunch of techies building a brain with computers. The 2,000-microchip Blue Gene machine is capable of processing 22.8 trillion operations per second—just enough to model a 1-cubic-mm column of rat brain.
    (tags: brain science congnition programming computing singularity bluebrain blue ibm neurology)
  • How to nap – Boston.com
    an excellent graphic on “How to Nap”… just in case you can't quite get it right :-)
    (tags: work tips sleep science psychology productivity napping sleeping nap)
  • Science Made Stupid
    today a myriad of sources are available to explain science facts that science itself has never dreamed of.
    This web site is one of them.
    (tags: satire science religion reference philosophy stupid humour hugo)
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  • Build Your Own Tall Bike Without Welding
    This is the easiest way to make a tallbike.
    (tags: bike tallbike cycle)
  • Electric Umbrella
    The Electric Umbrella will glow with many pinpoints of light – and it's dimmer adjustable so you can set how bright you want to be – anywhere from dim ambient light for strolling in the dark to carrying your own portable supernova beacon of light!
    (tags: tutorials umbrella project diy art light led)
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  • Amnesty International – After the Olympics » AdverBox Advertising Blog
    a little heavy handed but quite interesting
    (tags: amnesty international china olympics tibet)
  • Lord Cthulhu, the solar-powered Lovecraft bot – Boing Boing Gadgets
    The Cthulhu bot sleeps until he soaks up enough light… at which point, he begins to madly thrash around his many sucking, tentacled limbs.
    (tags: etsy electronics robot sculpture kinetic cthulhu boingboing)
  • AdFreak: Then we'll grab a bite at 404 Not Found
    highlighting the problems faced by folks who believe everything they read on the internet
    (tags: translation sign pictures photos language images humour restaurant)
  • YouTomb
    YouTomb where YouTube videos go to die – a collection of copyright-related takedowns along with info on who issued the complaint and how long the video was up.
    (tags: youtube youtomb web2.0 web videos video reference movie takedowns copyright)
  • Draganfly.com Industrial Aerial Video Systems & UAVs
    The Draganflyer X6 Helicopter is a GPS guided, hi-definition, aerial video and digital photography platform. There is an X6 package for photographers, video production, police, military and education use
    (tags: wireless video robot photography toys surveillance rc)
  • CCTV camera
    a carboard cutout cctv surveilance camera ready for assembly and deployment just about anywhere you'd care to put it.
    (tags: video security project papercraft paper origami cctv camera)
  • arduiNoise(beats);
    a port of the Noise Toy programs for the Arduino platform. Add a couple of momentary switches to pins 8 and 9 and connect stereo audio to 3 and 4 and you're away.
    (tags: sound diy audio arduino music)
  • PlayCrafter: Create flash games using a free online game maker
    a simple drag and drop way of making your own flash games. Everything is customizable. Pick a template, upload a background, arrange the pieces, you get the idea. When you’re done you can embed it anywhere you like. It’s free and easy.
    (tags: flash flashgames elearning instructional.design instruction teaching elm2008 talotools)
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  • Simpsonize Me
    a Simpsons character creator that uses a photo that you upload to create a Simpsonesque avatar.
    (tags: webdesign simpsons photo homer generator funny fun flash)
  • Class: MySite with Wikipedia (wikipedia, install) – PHP Classes
    This php class not only provides means to let any PHP site benefit from the content that is made available in Wikipedia, but also to remotely edit the content of any Wikipedia page.
    (tags: wikipedia php class wiki wikimedia conversion parsing)
  • HTML::WikiConverter
    a perl script for converting HTML to wiki markup. Produces a variety of output formats including mediawiki markup
    (tags: wiki mediawiki cpan perl scripts html conversion import)
    • ]]>     http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2008/08/28/links-for-2008-08-27/feed/ 0     week2, thing #3 – keeping up with the joneses http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2008/08/27/week2-thing-3-keeping-up-with-the-joneses/ http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2008/08/27/week2-thing-3-keeping-up-with-the-joneses/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:44:10 +0000 oldcodgertater http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/?p=402 I figure that since I’m making all my mentees write a blog for our 23 things project I should practice a little of what I preach, so I’ll put the odd post here on this old edublogs blog

    I even made an avatar on the simpson’s movie site…

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  • Portable Celtx – Home
    a version of Celtx that utilizes Portable Firefox as codebase. Celtx is a free, open source software tool for writing and formatting a screenplay to meet the exacting screenplay submission standards set by the theater and film industries.
    (tags: writing usb portable opensource movie celtx storyboard storyborads film)
  • Live Futures 2020 – the countdown is on! : jokaydia.com
    my secondlife avatar is hoplessly trapped on the introductory island – not responding to any key press or combo that I can come up with – but if I ever get enthusiastic enough to create another avatar, jokaydia is one place I plan to visit.
    (tags: secondlife 2l jokay jokaydia)
  • OpenOffice.org repository for Extensions | Welcome to the home of OpenOffice.org extensions!
    add functionality to your open office install with some free extensions
    (tags: plugins template templates oo openoffice extensions)
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