When I watched “The Stoning of Soraya M.” yesterday, I thought to come up with another 9 movies to create a list of movies that you may not have watched, but might want to hunt down. You will notice a strong Indian theme in my selection. When I lived in Munich, it was very easy […]
This is a true curiosity which caused some good laughter today. A colleague showed me his check marks in Firefox today. They were upside down and have been so for a long time. He does not have a clue why they are not the usual way. It does not matter on which web site he […]
Today I needed to look up a text on Project Gutenberg. As I did not remember its address perfectly, I just searched it on Google. Nothing out of the extraordinary here. However, once the result list was in front of me, I saw another search field there just for the Gutenberg web site. That rocked.
Dave Cormier and George Siemens requested help in determining the future of education. In my vision brainstorm I produced the following video response. [HD quality available on the YouTube page] I used the song “Learn to Fly” by Josh Woodward. It is one of my favorite songs, and I think it fits quite nicely in […]
Alec Couros had asked for mini lectures for his last EC&I 831 course in Winter 2009. I had almost forgotten to check out these micro lectures, but finally searched for them on the course site. There I came across Rodd Lucier‘s 8.5-minute video explaining how to use Compfight to search Flickr for Creative Commons licensed […]