A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
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A couple of years ago I took part in a workshop that used resources from the Library of Congress’s American Memory collection entitled “Adventures of the American Mind.” As part of the workshop, I created an activity called Photo Sleuth. Students were to look at historic photos, and using clues from the photos, were supposed … Read More “Photo Sleuth 2.0” »
I was reading Wesley Fryer’s Moving at the Speed of Creativity blog when I stumble across a fantastic new multimedia authoring tool. VoiceThread does for multimedia authoring what YouTube does for video and Flickr does for photography. In its simplest form, it’s a slide show with narration. However, users can also incorporate screen captures, PowerPoint … Read More “VoiceThread – Multimedia Authoring for Web 2.0” »
The Library of Congress has decided to place thousands of historic photographs and images on Flickr The LOC is soliciting comments and tags to help identify the images in the collection. Currently, the collection consists of two sets – one from the 1930-40’s, and one from the 1910’s. Previously I had written about Pickens County … Read More “Library of Congress on Flickr” »
I’ve read several “Best of 2007” or “New for 2008” articles lately dealing with web applications and what authors consider to be their favorites. These include Will Richardson’s roundup on Weblogg-ed, TechCrunch’s “Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without,” and Lifehacker’s “Top 10 Underhyped Webapps.” There is some overlap in these lists, and several of … Read More “Cool Tools Roundup” »
Scenario 1 – A repressive government controls all Internet access. Its citizens cannot get to information on religion, democracy, or any site that might be critical of that government. Solution – A distributed system of web proxies enables the people of the repressed country to effectively bypass the filters, allowing them access to information that … Read More “The Blocker’s Dilemma” »
Wednesday morning I had a rare opportunity. I was invited to work with a high school government and economics class, introducing them to Google Earth. There was a class of about 30 students in the media center’s computer lab, and I showed them basic navigation, how to create placemarks, and some general features of the … Read More “No child left behind, except for gifted” »
When I first got to my office early this morning I opened up RandomConnections to check comments and clean out the boatload of spam comments that tends to accumulate overnight. The first thing I noticed was that all of my photos were missing. If I clicked through to get to the actual photo page, the … Read More “So Much for Flickr” »
When I did my presentation “Geotag This! Adding Location to Learning” at EdTech I wanted to give examples of geotagging different types of media, not just photographs. With the new YouTube layer now available in Google Earth, it was easy to demonstrate how to geotag video, and with GeoRSS feeds now available, I was able … Read More “GeoPodcasting – Adding Location to Audio” »
Chip sent this to me over the weekend. The photo was taken in 1985, and shows me demonstrating a MIDI sequencer to a bunch of kids. I don’t remember if it was a Boy Scout troop, or what. Chip, my nephew, is the dark-haired kid in the picture. The equipment shown includes a Commodore 64 … Read More “Memories of an Alphageek” »
Well, today certainly was mixed. I was up very early getting my gear packed and checked out of the hotel. I arrived at the convention center in plenty of time to check out the room, and get acclimated to the smell of mold. We’re in a different room for this morning’s presentations, and there is … Read More “EdTech 2007 – Last Day” »