SXSWi photos from My Flickr.
SXSWi photos from My Flickr.
SXSWi photos from My Flickr.
SXSWi photos from My Flickr.
The Future will be Captioned at the YouTube blog explains their new auto-captioning function, which works only for English videos at this point.
I saw a presentation from the social media team at Central New Mexico Community College last week. They talked about how they interact with the college’s 25,000 students on Facebook. The rule they [...]
Women and the backchannel on This is Rachel Andrew talks about the backchannel comments directed at female presenters at the recent 200th Boagworld podcast. A couple of good ideas were proposed to deal with the issues raised.
The chatroom on the Boagworld show was essentially a backchannel, and similar issues have happened in conference backchannels in [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The New York Times has a story on Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally.
Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes.
I’ve had many a textbook that I modified [...]
Monday, February 22, 2010
Since I stopped posting the monthly summaries of what I have published at eHow, I’ve stopped showing you my occasional photo. Here’s a photo, apropos of nothing, that shows the mystical Sandia Mountains on a cloudy February morning.
How to Hide Farmville (and such) on Facebook. OMG, this is the best thing I’ve learned in ages!
Only [...]