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Digital ethnography :: Michael Wesch and students producing remarkable stuff ::
Kiev Ephemeris :: Vasyl Y. Choliy's replacement for the AA. ::
Tinderbox 360 :: List inbound and outbound links by link type ::
Recording copyright :: The packaging has longer protection than the sound. ::
Traffic :: this is not a blog ::
Cartes Du Ciel :: Sky Map now available for Linux. There is even a .deb package! ::
Radio :: There is life in the medium yet... ::
Solstice and Equinox :: Download a spreadsheet that will calculate the date and time of the solstices. ::
We need a thousand hits :: Les the cleaner won't appear unless you watch the trailer ::
How to write quickly :: The full title is "How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly". Stephen Downes explains his system for planning a piece of writing as you write it. ::
$150 laptop :: The first batch of 1000 minimal laptops has apparently been delivered. The machine runs on less than 2 watts of power, and the display is visible in sunlight. ::
Press Gazette closes :: UK Journalists no longer have a trade paper. Teachers have the TES, which seems to carry on driven by job adverts. ::
Letter to my mp :: Josie Fraser has posted about BECTa's advice to schools and the way that advice may be failing to give open source products a fair chance. John Pugh MP is tabling an early day motion in support of some acceptance of open source software and we were asked to write to our MPs. I have used the 'write to them' service to post the following letter to my MP... ::
Your name on toast :: Auctioning the fold for charity. These people will write your name on toast, then photograph it and then put the toast and a link to a site you nominate on their page. The rounds of toast are listed in descending order of contribution. All proceeds go to charity. They are auctioning the space above the fold - well neat. ::
:: Intellectual property rights may damage innovation and split markets. Lessig explains using the Google Book Search as an example, through the medium of a presentation with sound track. ::
Darwin Online :: Cambridge University and the Darwin family have presented all of Darwin's writings on a Web site. Text is searchable. Superb resource, and perhaps the way forward for history? ::
Press Gang :: Press Gang is a 300,000 word history of national newspapers in the UK from 1945, with a bias towards the London newspapers. Roy Greenslade has written a brick of a book coming in around 300,000 words. The Birmingham Rep is producing Pravda by Howard Brenton and David Hare and we have tickets for this Friday. ::
Beginner’s mind :: Seth has hit it on the nail again: for new students the college has just started... This is going to get printed in 24pt and put on the notice board. It means we can't make assumptions about what adult students know about the educational process. It also means that I have to explain the learning process. Otherwise they fall back on the last model they had - and that didn't work too well, otherwise adult students would not be taking level 2 qualifications. ::
Journalism Project :: In previous years, we have used a collective blog for journalism students with the tutor acting as editor. Perhaps it is now time to encourage NCTJ students to set up their own blogs on blogger or similar and self-publish (with safeguards for the College). ::
E-learning notes :: Download a 34 page handout that describes the various ways in which a teacher in an FE College in the UK might support students using various ICT/ILT/e-learning facilities. This is a draft, and I'm starting with the text and then adding photos, screen grabs and Web addresses later. Some of my colleagues will actually scan a handout like this and read parts that attract their attention. ::
The future is… :: Orange / Wandadoo / Freedom to Surf worries again ::
Good enough :: A camera that takes pictures, a laptop that does e-mail and browsing and some Office tasks... ::
Enrolment :: Crowds of people once a year ::
A picture of your mind? :: The cognition and affect project at Birmingham University is researching aspects of AI ::
10 years… :: ...four addresses and at least two online courses for general sale ::
One laptop per child? :: Learning through play ::
And then we focus on their heads, and slightly to one side :: Creativity and Maths - a hostile witness ::
The future is… :: Reliable connection to the Internet is all I ask for ::
Jinpow :: Jinpow exhibition with a nice Flash site ::
Livebox :: How to stop customers paying you more ::
Transitive relations :: Hypertext and set theory ::
WriteRoom: minimal text :: Hog Bay software provide a small app that turns your iBook or MacBook into an Alphasmart with built in hand heater ::
C60 :: Harry Kroto speaks at Oxford about the Internet and takes part in a radio program about carbon ::
Software and management :: Mythical Man Month mauls Microsoft ::
Nisus and Mellel :: A tale of two wordprocessors ::
100 square feet :: Imagine living in a flat that was 100 square feet in size. Communal toilets and showers I suppose, but what about the cooking? They seem to have flasks but no stoves so perhaps there is a communal kitchen. No sign of ‘a room of one’s own’ here. Michael Wolf is showing us part of the living [...] ::
Unusual mould :: Black rust form mould grows in concentric circles ::
Glenn Gould: Al maestro cuchillada :: Current reading: Biography of Glenn Gould by Kevin Bazzana places the performer in a social and historical context. ::
Flash movie test :: Is it possible to upload a flash movie through WordPress? ::
Textwrangler: remove blank lines :: To remove blank lines from a text file in Textwrangler, you have to run search and replace, tick the ‘use Grep’ option and then search on the pattern ^\r. Replace with nowt and the effect is magic. A boon to the ‘everything in one big text file’ advocates. The pattern < /?[^>]> can be used to [...] ::
WordPress export :: Use a special theme to export posts! ::
Migraine and hole in heart :: According to the BBC News quoting research by doctors in London and Shrewsbury, there may be a link between migraine with aura and a hole in the heart. Their figures (quoted from the BBC article) are as follows… “The latest study screened 432 migraine with aura patients, and found 24% had a moderate [or] large PFO [...] ::
When is a blog not a blog? :: Metropolitan Police officers have apparently received ‘guidance’ about blogging that includes the following phrase; “consider the impact of expressing views and opinions that…bring the organisation into disrepute”. What is, exactly, a blog? Perhaps an online notebook where you list links, tips, ideas, common experience (like the blog you are now reading) or sometimes a place where [...] ::
Beaufort Scale :: I once heard the Beaufort Scale rendered as epic poetry. The reader started in a quiet conversational tone, speaking fairly quickly. As he ascended the scale, the voice grew louder and the pace slowed. The word ‘HURRICANE’ was bellowed at considerable volume. The table below was copied from a notebook entry made one foul day in [...] ::
Forensic ICT new version :: Just storing a draft in a convenient location ::
200 cubic kilometres of ice every year :: A recent post to the Real Climate blog details recent work on satellite images of Greenland showing the volume of ice flow into the sea from the glaciers that surround the coast. The numbers are large – 220 cubic km of ice per year is currently flowing from the glaciers into the sea. That apparently corresponds [...] ::
On an overgrown path :: On an overgrown path is an example of a personal blog that a classical music fan updates daily. The blog is produced using Blogger and uses one of the built-in blogger templates – anyone can use these simple tools to publish a blog. The articles provoke thought and the comments are very illuminating and mostly [...] ::
Blog back in sub-directory :: I have re-arranged the way bodmas.org works, and this wordpress blog is back in the bodmas.org/blog subdirectory. I decided I wanted a static page upfront to allow for a wider range of non-blog content arriving over the summer. All I have to do now is work out how to customise the 404 error messages incase my [...] ::
Bartleby reference :: New link to useful resource ::
Writing :: Links to 'rules' and checklists for writing and revising the writing ::
Programming is writing :: “Sometimes I wish there were no such thing as binary code, and that programs were written and sold in source form in the same way magazine articles, short stories, nonfiction books, and novels are sold: by being offered to publishers. Human readability would be as important as machine parsability. Code would be copyrighted, but never [...] ::
Flow :: A description of a state ::
WordPress upgrade and downgrade :: Up to 2.01 and then down to 1.51 in one day... ::
A Monk and Two Peas :: A Monk and Two Peas ::
R Project :: Freeware stats package for Mac OS X, Linux, Windows ::
Stay regular :: Psyllium husk is a source of fibre - personally I'll stick to the porridge - but the packaging looks sound. ::
Nuclear economics and respect :: Vincent Cable and George Galloway ::
Sharp by name… :: All about pencils ::
100 words :: Read all about it coursework: a useful list ::
Celestia :: Expecting nice pictures from freeware astronomy package ::
Cold Europe? :: Current mapping and arithmetic lead to predictions of colder climate ::
Why we have timetables… :: Multitasking doesn't work very well ::
Digital divide: Southern Africa :: Some projects in Southern Africa aim to reduce the impact of the digital divide ::
The Life of Galileo: Brecht play in Birmingham :: David Edgar re-translates and prunes the German theatre classic: Music and a stark stage, more space for the theologians ::
AlphaSmart 3000 arrives :: Minimal instant on keyboard usable on trains and allows capture of text in meetings and in odd corners of time. ::
Course planning: Tinderbox :: Tinderbox - soon for Windows - is worth the money, deep software ::
Writing for the Web: Paul Ford :: Use a spreadsheet to write each idea in a cell with a heading.... ::
Essay planning with PowerPoint :: MS PowerPoint can help you plan writing - forces focus on structure ::
Pitt-Rivers Museum :: Good old fashioned museum in Oxford has a range of objects ::
Dante Stella :: Amateur page on monochrome photography with small 35mm cameras ::
Logo from packet of corn snacks :: Teletubbies alive and well and living in Korea ::
$100 laptop becomes reality :: Nicolas Negroponte's $100 laptop takes a step nearer ::
Moodle local :: Moodle runs OK under Mac OS X apache with MySQL 4.0.2x- just needs graphics library ::
Forum user administration :: Gossamer-Threads forum is free to non-profit organisations and has good user management but without bulk upload. Discus Pro costs about ��70 but has user creation by spreadsheet. ::
Mambo runs local :: Mambo works locally under Mac OS X with mySQL 4.o.27 ::
LAMP on Mac? :: How to remove things from the System Preferences panel in Panther and how to get a LAMP platform working on Mac OS X Panther ::
Henon attractor :: Simple iterated map generates a strange attractor that can provide a model for the rings of Saturn ::
Science, Not Art: Ten Scientists’ Diaries :: Tanniemola B. Liverpool's home page with quotes - the book features diaries of 10 scientists ::
How ageist is Britain? :: "One key point is that a half of all people under the age of 24 have no friends over 70, and vice versa" - survey on ageism ::
Spokes in the rings :: General information on Saturn’s ring system BBC News article on the spokes – gravitational effect of a moon The Cassini probe has allowed astronomers to infer something about the dynamics and structure of the particles that make up Saturn’s rings, and solve a puzzle about the ‘spokes’ seen moving around the rings on a previous flyby. The ring [...] ::
Born abroad :: Most people born abroad live in the South of England - especially London. New statistical analysis decouples immigration from ethnicity. ::
Chemical reactions depend on temperature :: This goes for chemical reactions in the brain of a baby being born with a shortage of oxygen. A 'cooling cap' slows the build up of damaging chemicals and allows time for remedial action. ::
The big bug count :: The RSPB devised an innovative technique for estimating insect populations - count the splats on the numberplate as you drive in the country. How did the methodology stack up? ::
Central England Temperature :: Temperature records kept from 1659 to present day allow trends to be identified ::
Zipf’s law? :: Broadband connectivity is shared amongst users - Fair Use policies need to cap bandwidth hogs ::
Extreme Percentage change :: Seabird sightings low as breeding and migration patterns change ::
Rate of change :: Amazon deforestation rate has 'halved' - so that's OK then? ::
A powerful chemical :: Chemical is found to be present in all dead animals... and plants.... linked with cancer... ::
Tinderbox hybrid template :: Tinderbox allows a quick and dirty HTML export template and the construction of a course web site in a very short time ::
GUI Gallery :: Industrial archaeology in the cyber age? We need to preserve the appearance of the older user interfaces and this site does it well. ::
The nice thing about… :: Some links on learning theory ::
Scales on Bass :: Silly picture for the bank holiday with link to Chicago based design company doing magazine layouts on Web pages ::
TGIF :: Nice clipart GIF of TGIF spelt out in child's blocks ::
The Microsoft Sound :: It was Brian Eno that composed 'that chime' - he did 84 separate pieces ::
RBL Links :: Testing the links in the module guide ::
Bradford Wool Exchange windows :: Strange geometrical pattern found in 1840s building ::
Right Hand, Left Hand :: Left Hand, Right Hand, Chris McManus, Phoenix, 2003, ISBN 0-75381-355-6 ::
Seawatch :: Whale watching and statistics ::
Churches and castles :: Stafford and Worcester trips ::
A sensible to do list :: Limit the number of items on a to do list to three. Knock out some quality work. Then go home. ::
Richard Long :: Richard Long is an artist who walks and makes small changes to places as he passes through ::
Off line soon :: Not around for a bit ::
Eyes everywhere :: Becky - the 15 year old school refuser - came out with a tirade against surveillance and CCTV, eyes everywhere. She may have had a point. ::
Altitude of the Sun and Moon :: A spreadsheet uses simplified low precision formulas to calculate the altitude of the Sun and the Moon for each hour of a given day. Change the latitude to see the effect of moving into the arctic circle. Change the date to see the effect of slipping towards Winter. ::
A r i a l :: Where did Arial come from? The history of a computer font as told by a typographer. ::
Make haste, slowly :: "We live in a world where instant gratification is not fast enough, in a world of not only speed dating, but even of speed yoga, said Mr Honor?�." ::
Bodmas goes Jakob :: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the new Bodmas design is borrowed from Jakob Nielsen's personal site at http://useit.com/ ::
Wireless :: 128 kb/s 13 for 24 hours connection time I could be using this for heavy downloading iBook needed the wireless card replacing as well as the combo drive but it is behaving now ::
Astronomical calculations :: Kepler introduced the idea of elliptical orbits and increased the accuracy of prediction of planetary positions by a large factor. He based his calculations – essentially a curve fitting process – on the observations of Tycho Brahe, the first observational astronomer to produce continuous nightly observation records. I’ve parked an old site of mine that contains [...] ::
Unusual writing style :: A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes) actually starts at Chapter 3. It has cartoons and an unusual style (for a programming book). A sample: “Most variables are rather temporary in nature. Some parts of your program are like little houses. You walk in and they have their own variables. In one [...] ::
Free reading :: An editor assembles a book called The Best Software Writing from Web based essays on software and interface design. The book is published (typeset in sabon). A blogger assembles a page pointing to the original essays .This can’t be a copyright issue can it? I mean the originals all existed available for free before the [...] ::
Computers need to be like toasters :: Neal Stephenson’s essay: In the Beginning was the Command Line Eric Raymond’s essay: The Cathedral and the Bazaar Did either of these geezers need to cope with fan control in Linux on a 3 year old laptop and a wobbly combo drive on a brand new iBook? Why can’t computers be like toasters – sealed units that just [...] ::
Climate change blog :: Real climate is a ‘commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists.’ Nice to see scientists in a controversial area using the Web (and a blog to boot) to keep people informed. Plenty of backstory here. I owe this interesting Web site to the current issue of Seb Schmoller’s [...] ::
Kettles and HiFis :: “Computers feel more like appliances than they used to in the days when we hand soldered memory chips onto the motherboard or fiddled with DIP switches. A little, but not much – but they’re cheaper and more disposable, and so there’s less concern about what’s really in the box.”Andrew Orlowski, The Osborne Effect Spooks Apple [...] ::
Homework: explain Open Source :: “I dont really get all this open source malarkey. Do you know some where that spells it out S L O W L Y for us clueless folk!” The homework was set by a student (who is not clueless at all by any means). Its my own fault for trying to interest people in using [...] ::
Mark Shuttleworth, modems and windows :: Mark Shuttleworth interview with Slashdot explains the dot com millionaire’s approach to making Open Source software work for Africa and pay. Ubuntu update: The 5.04 Hoary install on this little laptop needs to have the modem drivers compiled. wiki page for Lucent Winmodems I used the Warty instructions after having tried the Hoary procedure first I suspect this might [...] ::
Sense of place :: David Kolb has produced a hypertext essay on the nature of modern spaces in cities called Sprawling Places This hypertext has 100,000 words, 600 pages and 1,000 images The work is multiply linked and threaded by a number of outlines or themes It is possible for two (or more) people to ‘read’ the work in quite unconnected ways [...] ::
Online manuscripts :: The Schoenberg Centre for Electronic Text and Image has online images of manuscripts - some of which have blank pages (texture layers in GIMP) ::
emacs on Mac OS X :: Danger: anorak zone ::
GCSE Maths study skills :: The list below is a first bash at a study skills handout for GCSE Maths students… Some quick hints for studying Maths again…You are not alone – get to know other members of the class – you will realise that we are all up the same creek in the same kyak paddling in the same direction.Work [...] ::
Spicy lentils :: Recipe for spicy lentils collected by Ismail Merchant from his sister Sherbanu ::
Fierce blogging :: Performance arts event sets up a public blog to get audience feedback. ::
GIMP on Windows ME :: Use an older version of the GTK+ libraries to run the Gimp 2 on an ancient laptop under Windows ME ::
Open Source Software in Schools :: The Becta report based on an ‘oportunity’ sample of schools using Open Source software to varying extents compared to schools using commercial software (i.e. Windows servers, desktops and Office) has now been published (publication was delayed during the General Election). The BECTa press release has a good summary The full BECTa report Open Source Software in Schools [...] ::
A4 paper ratio :: Why A4 paper is the shape it is? ::
SQR3 reading method :: Survey! Question! Read! Recite! Review! is a reading framework that is suggested for University students. As I find myself teaching a reading / writing based subject (Forensic ICT) to a group of sixth formers and some adults in the evening, I come up against problems with reading, summarising and writing. I have been ‘scaffolding’ complex readings [...] ::
Tinderbox explodes :: Explode command on the Note menu can split notes containing lists into one note per line all children of the original note ::
Chenobyl by motorbike :: “On the Friday evening of April 25, 1986, the reactor crew at Chernobyl-4, prepared to run a test the next day to see how long the turbines would keep spinning and producing power if the electrical power supply went off line. This was a dangerous test, but it had been done before. As a part [...] ::
War photographs :: Dmitri Baltermans was an ‘official’ Soviet photographer. His war photographs are bleak and direct. Mark Bernstein quotes Lilia Efimova about the media coverage of the war memorial on May 9th in Moscow. ::
Level 3 for adults? :: “And the irony is that level 3 is what employers are looking for,” she says. “If we are seriously trying to support our local community through economic regeneration, then we have to kit them out with the best qualifications – which, in London, is level 3 and upwards.”-Barbara Field, Principal of Harrow College, quoted in [...] ::
NeoOffice - roundtrip? :: NeoOffice/J for Mac OS X is an Aqua native build of OpenOffice 1.4 with Java widgets (the file windows look different). But, it does not round trip edit with Word files alas... ::
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Respect :: Got the message? BBC News election results service provides a timely source of statistics – I’ll try to get the spreadsheet of all the votes as well. ::
The Gimp :: The GIMP is a powerful open source image editing application that works on both Windows and Mac OS X platforms. I can edit images in the same application at work (Win 2000) and at home (Mac OS X). ::
A Hole in the Wall :: “Within three months of opening up of the Internet kiosk, it was found that the children, mostly from the slum, had achieved a certain level of computer skills without any planned instructional intervention. They were able to browse the Internet, download songs, go to cartoon sites, work on MS Paint. They even invented their own [...] ::
Lorenz attractor :: Edward Lorenz was using a primitive computer (it was 1963) to numerically integrate an apparently simple set of coupled differential equations. The computer worked to 6 decimal places and printed out each line to 3 places. Restarting a run, he noticed that the trace started looking similar but became slowly different to a previous run [...] ::
MacNoteTaker :: MacNoteTaker is a possible work around for not being able to synchronise memo pad files. It is a Palm application that allows long notes and a Mac OS X conduit that allows notes to be synchronised and exported as text files. I’d rather just have a conduit for memo pad documents, but this looks better [...] ::
Palm Desktop for Mac OS X :: My little monochrome zire 21 organiser comes in handy for quick notes on the train. The Mac OS X Palm Desktop software is currently at version 4.2.1. If you unstuff and then run the installer, you get a system error message – the installer does not check user rights on the Application folder correctly. The [...] ::
Apple and sweet papers :: “When researching new processes we often find ourselves working with different industries. It was interesting working with a confectionery manufacturer. Their experience in the science of translucent colour control helped us understand processes to ensure consistency in high volume.” From Jonathan Ive’s account of the 1998 iMac design (this would be the slot loader judging by [...] ::
Processing 1.0 β :: Processing is a programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional [...] ::
Writing, Briefly :: Paul Graham’s essay on Writing, Briefly took just over an hour to write – and two thirds of that was spent re-writing. I learned about anaphora. ::
The Constellations :: If you need to find out about a star constellation then Richard Dibbon-Smith’s Web site about The Constellations is what you need. The table is sorted alphabetically and includes all 88 constellations (personally, I would have grouped them by Northern and Southern hemisphere with a generous overlap but who is arguing?) Richard sells a couple of [...] ::
Tinderbox :: Tinderbox is a note taking application for Mac OS X. A Windows version is in the works – in fact the author Mark Bernstein’s blog includes a link to his development peekhole for Tinderbox. Tinderbox has a range of powerful features for organising and visualising relationships between notes – such that I am going to try [...] ::
Macintosh religion? :: “The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer and users of MS-DOS compatible computers. I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the “ratio studiorum” of the Jesuits. It is cheerful, [...] ::
VoIP :: Paul Graham quoted on Daring Fireball in a wonderfully named article Point, Counterpoint: Mac OS X Is Great for Fortysomething Unix Hackers – the title being very close to home. “In 1994 my friend Koling wanted to talk to his girlfriend in Taiwan, and to save long-distance bills he wrote some software that would convert sound [...] ::
Lunar orbiter images :: xephem CD-Roms arrived from US today, about a week after I ordered the package. The second disc makes the entire Lunar Orbiter photograph collection available to xephem Click on a lunar disc (viewable up to x6 scale) and bring up the feature name Apple-click to bring up a dialog box with information Click a button in the information dialog [...] ::
Enchanted learning :: Enchanted Learning is a Web site with a large number of simple resources produced by a teacher(?). A colleague uses this Web site for quick lesson ideas when covering absence in the SLDD section, and she really appreciated the resources on offer. The site asked for a small donation to cover the costs of running [...] ::
Google bodmas :: The first few sites that come up when you google bodmas are http://www.easymaths.com/What_on_earth_is_Bodmas.htm http://www.mathspractice.com.au/modules/BODMAS.htm http://www.gazinotes.com/KS3-GCSE/AT2-BODMAS.htm http://www.bodmas.tk/ Clearly time for a well thought out information page on the mnemonic acronym with examples, history and a few games. Watch this space… ::
Flat world :: “In his new book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century, Thomas Friedman suggests that because of the universal availability of communications and information processing sciences, the entire global community is now spanned by common technological skills and organizational methods.” – Alan Miller Translation If we are going to continue [...] ::
Strayhorn runs bodmas :: The bodmas site is now being run through WordPress 1.5 with a few additions… Default Kubrick theme has been munged to remove images and to present post text as right ragged instead of justified The Kubrick theme uses excerpts to generate archive and category pages – I have changed this to full post content The Custom Query String [...] ::
xephem :: Xephem is a Unix/Mac OS X based sky chart and ephemeris program. The program costs $80 for a precompiled version on CD-Rs or by download along with a huge set of catalogues and the Lunar Orbiter images. An identical version is available for download only at $60. This is a 1 Gb download spread over [...] ::
Blog upgraded to Strayhorn :: This blog is now running on Wordpress strayhorn using a theme munged from the WordPress classic. Ultimately, I’ll be running the whole site from this blog. The upgrade was as simple as suggested. Nice one chaps. ::
Water :: ::
Dissertation without tears :: “The formula for writing Essays is rather loose. It was invented by Michel Montaign in the sixteenth century. It was a variation on the sermon. A sermon is traditionally appended to an opening biblical text which it refers, or at least alludes to, the holiday when the sermon was delivered. It is a fantasy or [...] ::
Open quals :: http://www.openquals.org.uk/ ::
Brian Harvey :: Brian Harvey has a nice simple home page. He gives out a free book on programming in LOGO - Computer Science Logo Style based on his work in releasing the open source Berkley Logo interpreter. Berkley Logo was started as a student project. Brian is also quite rare among north americans in having an interest in [...] ::
Study skills for science students :: Martin Greenhow’s Study Skills Online page has a lot of information for science oriented students following Undergraduate degrees. You can download the lot as a Word 6 file but the resulting 34 pages of dense text is a little daunting. Better to link into a page now and again from the online version. Martin has a [...] ::
Death by Powerpoint :: Boring meetings and the main culprit seems to be PowerPoint. Edward Tufte has concerns over the Cognitive Style of PowerPoint as reported at some length by Wired Magazine (September 2002) under the headline PowerPoint is Evil. How to not bore students with PowerPoint Maximum 5 to 7 slides Use PowerPoint for what it is good at – drawing [...] ::
More test :: This is the paragraph or two that runs ‘above the fold’ with perhaps just a sentence now and again to set the scene. This is the bit that should be below the fold and linked from the front page as a ‘more’ link. ::
Science for Monks :: The Science for Monks Web site is about science and Maths training for Bhuddist monks. The five teachers involved found teaching the workshops a challenge. Stamatis Vokos has described a session in some detail. A secondary agenda is about keeping the Tibetan language current by developing a scientific vocabulary. This unusual Web page came from one [...] ::
Moodle 1.35 uses a lot of php memory :: Moodle 1.35 asks for more than 8 Mb of RAM from the php process when installing all modules The workround is to delete modules and then continue to install Set up the admin account and added a thumbnail (at last) which displayed properly Got Internal Server Error on index.php So back to Moodle 1.41 (which is on the main [...] ::
Black square problem :: Moodle 1.4.1 has apparently a problem with saving a blank config.php file and not displaying profile images on some combinations of Apache, PHP and MySQL (including the bodmas server apparently) Trying a download of Moodle 1.3.5 – older release C’est la Vie Enough of v 1.4.1 is working to evaluate the pedagogy and see how usable the teacher [...] ::
Moodle is installed :: Seems to be working OK 14 Mb of the 25 Mb of script files are actually language packs. Missed most of them out. Only problem so far is that I can’t get the thumbnails to display properly in the user profile – probably an image processing module missing on the bodmas server Once files uploaded, and the database [...] ::
Moodle upload :: 25Mb of scripts to upload College connection is a bit lumpy WS-FTP LE complains now and again so have to upload folder by folder lang and mods are big folders ::
Blog templates changed :: hacked WordPress templates to match the very plain style used in the rest of the site not xhtml compliant and currently no DTD specified removed the comments link removed all the trackback gubbins ::
Installing Moodle :: Moved bodmas.org to server space that should allow Moodle install 24 Mb of php files in the Moodle folder so will upload from fast connection at college Control panel not usable thru’ firewall so will have to configure from home ::
A lot of gateway timeouts :: More than I have had recently Control panel won’t get thru’ firewall – funny ports Time delay on scripts ::
First it wasn’t and now it is :: Got internal server errors on first uploading this Now working What gives? ::
Hello world! :: Welcome to WordPress. This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! ::
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