Posted in pedagogy, teaching, technology, tools, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Jan 19th, 2006 Comments Off
From visual searches to verbal searches, (without intending to pull an Annie Hall) Marshall “The Medium Is The Message” McLuhan must be having a celestial party right now.
Podzinger is a search engine for podcasts. Rather than allowing you to just search for a podcast based on the title, description, tags, or categories (as podcasting [...]
Posted in flickr, technology, tools, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Jan 7th, 2006 3 Comments »
Has anyone stopped to think about how computers might be different if the first widespread human-personal computer input device was the sketch pad and not the keyboard? I usually try to avoid the googly-eyed “wow” factor of new technologies, but this one, Retrievr, is very cool and has the potential for facilitating access for [...]
Posted in pedagogy, technology, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Sep 11th, 2005 Comments Off
I just finished reading (again!) But Not The Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton to my one-year-old son (he’s at the point where he gets ecstatic about reading the same book over and over — Where’s Maisy? by Lucy Cousins is another one he loves again and again and again). To sum up the book, a [...]
Posted in connectivism, greasemonkey, pedagogy, technology, tools, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Sep 3rd, 2005 1 Comment »
After my critique of connectivism and the emphasis on the conduit, I have decided to release two conduit-oriented Greasemonkey scripts: Trope for del.icio.us and Trope for Flickr. Basically, Trope is an extension of the Flickr Tag Convergence script, yet with a funky new name and a stand-alone page on this blog (see the Trope page). [...]
Posted in connectivism, greasemonkey, pedagogy, technology, tools, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Aug 24th, 2005 2 Comments »
Flickr Tag Convergence is now Trope.
The Flickr Tag Convergence Script
A contribution to Web 2.0. Flickr Tag Convergence is a Greasemonkey script for the Mozilla Firefox browser which allows you to search for any tag on a Flickr photo page on either del.icio.us or Technorati with one mouse click. The script places small icons [...]
