Playing with Technology

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~Arthur C. Clarke

Category: Presentations

  • Blogging class

    Talking about creating a blog.One thing to do is include an image. To do this you go to upload and browse for the image. Once it is uploaded click to use thumbnail and link to image and then drag to post.

  • Blog session

    I’m in Professor Holt’s FYS right now. We are talking about how to interact with the blog software. Image uploading is one of the things they need to know how to do.

  • Digital artifacts

    Looking for music, sounds, moving images, or texts that you can use in your projects? You need to check the Internet Archive. The Archive has a large collection of images, sounds, music, and texts that can be used in your projects.

  • Organizing information

    Dr. Havholm has asked me to give some pointers to his Digital Aesthetics class on managing RSS feeds to keep up with the blogs and stay sane. There are a few things I plan on talking about: Mozilla Thunderbird RSSOwl cross-platform RSS reader Google Reader requires a Google account Firefox extension Feedview will be in…

  • Digital Aesthetic class

    Today I showed Peter Havholm‘s class how to create a blog on our blog server. I also showed them the basics of posting and maintaining their blogs. It seemed to go pretty well. A number of students already have blogs so I wonder if they should ask Peter to let them use their existing blogs…