I started the process of re-doing our front entry way and planting bed today. We purchased the house a year ago and have been planning to streamline the landscaping in the front of our house. Today, I removed the old concrete border in our planting bed. In the photo below, you can see where the […]
My sister mailed our Christmas presents to us this week and we decided to allow our dog, Hurley, to unwrap his own present. Video below:
I’m off work for two weeks, so my holiday project is to re-vamp my personal site. Whoop, here it is! My goal is for this site to be much less stagnant that it’s been in the past. Herego, I’ve installed WordPress. My hope is that this site will serve as a gathering point for my […]
Jane Hart put out a call for e-learning professionals’ top 10 tools that they use for learning and working. Here’s mine: 1. Firefox – Firefox rules, IE drools! Love the tabs, love the extensions, love the speed, love the customization, love it. 2. Google reader + Google notebook + Gmail + iGoogle + Google Docs […]
Wired makes a call for open standards in social networking sites. I’ve heard this complaint in several places, and think it’s a valid one. It’s annoying that our social netorking “identities” are walled off. Take me for example… I have accounts with LinkedIn, Facebook, Internet Time, Eduspaces, MySpace, Friendster, and countless other social networking startups whose […]
My wifey is working on a Masters in Historic Preservation, and her thesis project involves creating an iPod heritage trail for Cumberland Island in Georgia. The idea is that visitors to the island will be able to experience interpretive exhibits in a remote setting. Using portable technologies, visitors can obtain a personalized tour in dense […]
I recently moved my blog from Eduspaces to WordPress. Eduspaces is built on the Elgg platform, which enables you to create your own social network. The Eduspaces network is devoted to educators, which is a great idea… but it’s not quite there. Here’s a few things I’d like to see Elgg improve upon: There’s no […]
Nice article on Wired about a firm who is helping organizations build training simulations using a “Wii-mote” in Second Life. A few examples were cited: a company interested in training workers for its power plants a manufacturer of medical devices pest-control firm Orkin, who is hoping “…to create training simulations, which might involve inspecting a […]
I stumbled upon this video a few days ago… it’s a Text Your Own Adventure w/ Spiderman! Remember those old Choose Your Own Adventure books? Well, this sorta works the same way. Basically, you watch a video in which Spiderman tries to save the world from the Golden Girls and trans-fats. At the end of […]
My wifey sent me an IM the other day while she was sitting in a webcast. Thought her use of google talk as a distraction during a webcast was a nice illustration of how a poorly designed webinar can be pretty boring… Re-posted from my abandoned Eduspaces blog
Matt Lisle 