Bloggers Need to Watch for Malicious Fake Posts
BBC News is reporting today that several blogs through Blogger are being “hijacked” by hackers. Hundreds of blogs have been attacked with fake posts. These postings look normal, however they contain links to what resemble YouTube links or software testers. These links when clicked on then allow the hackers to access many files within you […]
What’s Your Best Web Source for Info
Business Week is compiling its best of the best for 2007. It’s looking for the top sites where we, the users, get our most compelling information. There are several categories to choose from and there is offer to add to the list as well. Categories include Best Blogs, News, Finance, Travel, Games, Mashups, etc. The […]
Good Advice for Solving Problems
Lee Lefever posted a nice piece last night on their experience at Common Craft Show regarding producing their many fabulous videos on RSS, Social Bookmarking, and etc. Some great advice that really struck for me when considering our upcoming LMS implementation was: “If you’re about to start something new, don’t spend weeks trying to make […]
Howtoons – cartoons showing how to build things.
Howtoons is a great site for kids to take a look through. It has lots of colourful graphics that look like modern day comics. Oh but wait…what’s that you see….learning. Uggg, children tricked the world over to learn something hidden behind 1000 colours and images jumping out at you from the page. Ha…how diabolical. This […]
A Closer and More Detailed Look at the Moon
Imagine being able to view up close and in high detail photos of the Moon that were taking during the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions. Now you can. Many of these photos from the 1970 are being scanned by Arizona State University, Geological Sciences Program. The resolution is at 14 bits (16,000 shades of […]
Another use for old books
Following on the heels of the Great Textbook debate….I found this today. If we refuse to allow other students to get some use out of old text books, why not turn them into art. (Artist: Su Blackwell)
Karyn Romeis’ African School Tale (textbook debate)
I usually just use the share feature of my reader to mark items that I like and want to share with others. Today however, I really want to point this posting out to everyone. Karyn Romeis has been following and commenting on the textbook debate. Today she apologized (far too many times, lol) for what […]
GeoDistance – How Far Have You Gone?
Read/Write Web had and interesting post that caught my eye today. SimpleSpark has a video of 5000 web 2.0 applications logos presented in 333 seconds. Cool enough, but SimpleSpark has new applications daily. So I started working backwards in time and found one from yesterday. GeoDistance!!!! Oh this is so neat. I have wanted one […]
Private Social Networks – not your daddy’s Facebook
I suppose I’m not high class or connected enough to be one of the 260,000 elite members of ASmallWorld. It’s a social network, much like Facebook, but you must be invited by trusted members. Erik Wachtmeister founded ASMALLWORLD as a private online community forlike-minded individuals. Most networking communities are open. Ours is only byinvitation. Trusted […]
LMS is here, now what?
So we got our LMS or so they say. I’ve yet to get my greedy paws on to it. Initial thoughts were….let’s just get using it and start tracking some of the training and registration that is already going on within our facility. This quickly changed at the first meeting to a general discussion about […]