Category posting Test

I set up categories (labels) to see if that would work for multiple topics on the single blog.

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I haven't been keeping this blog up -- as you can probably tell.  I have moved most of my things to Perceptive Petal.

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Second Life Proposal

Well, I thought about Second Life some more, and saw the educational possibilities.  So, I put in and IDEAS proposal at our college to get a litle seed money to buy an island and put a classroom, campus, district into Second Life.  There are some upcoming conferences that I hope will help, and a lot of educators with the Sloodle project that will, too.  The conferences are "in world" on May 25th and F2F in Chicago the end of August.  I hope to keep up with my rather aggressive timeline for development.  More later...

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Second Life -- Educational Possibilites

I went to a conference last Spring and saw OpenCroquet. Thought it was interesting, but a lot of work. At the time, they mentioned Second Life. I didn't pay a lot of attention to it -- thinking someday. Well someday is today. I was assigned to teach a course called "Intro to Game Development." After playing with Multimedia Fusion, The 3D Game Maker, 2D and 3D graphic creation programs (Photoshop, Google Sketchup, Milkshape); we moved on into discussion MMOG -- and Second Life. Second Life is really not a game, but an MUVE -- Multi-user Virtual Environment. It is more social and relies on user creation of content much like the Sims games.

I stumbled upon a group Sloodle - who are connecting the content management system Moodle with Second Life. I joined up and attended one of their "in world" tours. "In world" is such a cute name for being "in" the Second Life virtual world.

Audioblogging working great

Well, I have "married" blogger.com with audioblogger.com and came up with a way to do a podcast without a cell phone! I did also join with feedburner to create the automation necessary for subscription service to the podcast. Talk about mobile! The quality of the audio is not "stellar," but the convenience is just that. I am hoping other faculty will see the advantages of this quick and easy way to get audio out to their students.

First attempt at an Audio Blog

This is the first attempt at audio blogging through www.audioblogger.com. Simply had to call the number supplied, record, and then edit the blog information. My next task is to see if there is a way to "subscribe" to this. A big advantage to this is that you don't really have to worry about uploading. The audio quality is not perfect, but not that bad either! I wonder if others could make audio comments -- I am guessing "not!" by the way I had to connect my blog with my audioblog account, but that would be something really neat in the future.

Shortcuts -- I don't like to type or click!

Here are some of my favorites:

Ctrl-C = Copy
Ctrl-X = Cut
Ctrl-V = Paste
Ctrl-A = Select All

Windows:
Alt-F4 - Closes an application -- used to close Windows, but doesn't with XP anymore.
Shift-Del - delete, but don't send to the Recycle Bin
Flying Window - D -displays the desktop
Flying Window - E - displays Windows Explorer
Flying Windows - M - minimize all windows
Flying Windows - L - lock the computer

Visual Basic.NET
Ctrl-Space -- type a few letters in of a variable then press Ctrl-Space; it will give you a list to choose from. Alt-rightarrow does the same thing. Press the Tab key to make a selection.

A new Host Provider

I switched host providers. Was easier than I thought to switch the domain name. Also, quicker than they told me it would be! Still haven't gotten that elusive CSK up and running -- this provider even had an auto-install -- that failed! Determined, or stubborn, as I am...I will get this to work!