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Totlol

Posted in chaosgirl, techno stuff on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

TotLOL: It’s kids-only YouTube. YouTube videos added and screened by parents. I love that there are classic Sesame Street and Muppets clips on YouTube but I really don’t like the chances you take with the posted comments and related videos. A monitored kid-friendly version makes it a lot easier to find and [...]

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I’m giving it a try

Posted in techno stuff on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

All the cool kids are doing it.
I signed up for a Twitter account.  I’m @sleepycat3x
I can’t figure out how to find other people easily so if you’re on Twitter please let me know.
It will be interesting to see if it really is useful since I won’t have messages sent to my cell phone because we [...]

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Keeping it together

Posted in dissertation, techno stuff, writing on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Warning: Tech/Student/Academic geek post ahead. Fiber folks may want to take a pass.
I had taken a stab at David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) system a few years ago. I did the big brain dump, the file purge, the whole nine yards. Then I drifted. The system went by the wayside and [...]

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A stack of yarn

Posted in techno stuff, yarny stuff on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

And this time it’s not stash enhancement. I have a stack of (albeit smallish) finished objects waiting to be photographed. Unfortunately it’s supposed to rain for pretty much the rest of the week so that’s not looking promising.
In order to distract you from my continued lack of content, I give you other people’s [...]

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I caved

Posted in chaosgirl, techno stuff on November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

ChaosGirl is getting closer to being 4 years old, how that has snuck up on me I don’t know. (I suspect the time gnomes but I can’t prove anything.) She has only played on the LittleTikes computers at daycare and the library and not very much at all. DH had bought a little [...]

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Today’s traditional students (or musings on MySpace)

Posted in hmm..., techno stuff on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I found this snip from a UK Guardian article interesting:
Phipps recalls interviewing a first-year female arts undergraduate who professed absolute ignorance of e-learning or web applications. “She was updating her blog at an internet café and then started integrating photos from her Flickr site on to the blog. At the end of it she said, [...]

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Google-fu

Posted in techno stuff on September 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

DH asked me about the origins of the term google-fu over the weekend.  In case anyone else is curious, Word Salad tracked it back to 2002.  There are also several related definitions in Urban Dictionary.

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It’s back-to-school shopping season again

Posted in techno stuff, yarny stuff on August 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I can tell because the most common search engine term for my blog is “laptop cozy”. I made one a while ago and still use it but the way it closes by tying is annoying in the smaller laptop bag I use. I have a plan for a new one and will hopefully [...]

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Student blogging

Posted in bloggy stuff, teaching, techno stuff on June 4, 2007 | 6 Comments »

There is a short post at Pedablogy about asking students to blog as part of a class. I started to put all this in the comment box and as it grew I brought it back here. The main question was
. . . in marked contrast to my real blog here, I’ve found my class [...]

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wiki-cool

Posted in techno stuff, writing on May 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I didn’t want this to get lost in the obscureness that is the previous post so it gets a post of it’s own. I found a cool new toy yesterday: wikidot.com  I know there are a lot of wiki hosting sites out there but this one is free – even for private wikis, easy to [...]

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