Auteur : Pauline McNamara
We’ve heard about podcasting in higher education, yet most examples are recordings of entire lectures made available later as a podcast (see for example our interview with David Malan of Harvard University). We got...
Ever pull your hair out over accented characters not displaying as they should? (Hmm. Wonder if these look funny… öäüéà No, great. :-)) Here’s an article on Character Encoding from Browser to Database. It’s...
Disk Utility does the trick! This isn’t anything new, but still works as an easy way to keep files away from prying eyes. I was looking for a way to password protect files that...
Robin Goode of MasterNewMedia.org has reviewed an online video encoding service called Hey!Watch. Some of the strong points listed by Goode: lots of formats, fast, easy-to-use interface, API for building custom apps, encode for...
Ever wonder how to simulate flocking behavior of birds? Or why it is that ants can act in unison without any awareness of the group as a whole? At Flash on the Beach ’06,...
As a follow-up to a recent post about a few Flash activities available for download: the author, Jeremy Fitzpatrick, hasn’t been able to continue developing the activities, but will send source files if you...
Here’s one to try out: Yugma
The Second Life Education Community page gives a little background on what’s happening in Second Life as far as education goes. More coffee break fodder… 😉 [edit] More on education in Second Life: New...
The folks behind the Te Kupenga site in New Zealand have made several made-with-Flash learning activities available free for use under a Creative Commons license. Eight different types are offered, represented by their names:...
Finally! Ever been frustrated by not being able to search within an iframe using your browser’s search page option? Firefox 2.0.0.1, in both Mac and Windows, finally opens up that iframe content to Ctrl-F...