Note: I was just introduced to confluence a few weeks ago, so there may be better ways to do all this. This is just what I have found as a newb confluence admin who has experience theming  other apps. Confluence is the enterprise wiki designed to “make it easy for you and your team to […]

The Project As part of the web team, I create and update dozens of pages every week. However, our newest launch, the updated PCC Foundation site, is something special.  Marketing had designated the foundation a co-brand. Meaning that it needs to maintain a strong relationship to, but is not a subsection of the college. This […]

First, here are the resources Audio Recording: high (53MB), Med (27MB),  or Low (13MB) 2009 Presentation slides: keynote format or plain old pdf Original post with links to code and demos Now some notes: The audio for the presentation was recorded with a little sansa express recorder. Even with the limitations of the mic and […]

Dr. Deborah Newton and Ryan Schrenk, MSU – Great Falls College of Technology Starts with a bunch of online tools to break the ice. None really have to do with the topic at hand, but interesting none-the-less. Slides are on slideshare. Now to the session at hand… Huge growth in distance learning. I hear that. […]

Brian Lamb, Manger, Emerging Technologies and Digital Content, Office of Learning Technology, The University of British Columbia http://blogs.ubc.ca/brian/ http://blogs.ubc.ca/open/open-up/ “I don’t do PowerPoint” – the crowd erupts in applause. Embrace the madness of the open web Opens up talking about the amazing contribution of wikipedia. Displays great diagram showing the possible physical size of the […]

Crap – My blog just crashed for no apparent reason. Had to kick the DB a few time to get it back up. So, I may have missed the first few minutes of this presentation – sorry. Stephen T. Anderson Sr., USC Mathematics and Computer Science http://www.uscsumter.edu/bio/stevea.shtml Jing Free and super simple Camtasia Shows a […]

Gill Creel, Minneapolis CC http://home.minneapolis.edu/~creelgi/ Shows an example of wehat he used to use for a course web page. Realized that textbook prices are going up, up, up and everything is online anyway. no more static webpages no more textbooks Audacity Uses it to respond to papers! “Talk faster then I can write. And since […]

Bryan Alexander, NITLE Web: infocult.typepad.com/ @bryanalexander No internet at an eLearning conference???? Having to type this locally to upload later – that is so 2002. Seeing me rant/type about this a fellow attendee leans over to share a passcode. Thanks ! Before he can even start his computer BSOD’s. However, he humorously works through it. […]

The Accessible Video Interface Notes and resources for presentation at the 2009 eLearning  in Portland, OR. The age of video on the Web is here! Both content creators and users have high expectations and you may become caught in the middle. Learn how to create an accessible media interface that will allow your institution to […]

Just stumbled across this great “client-focused copy style guide“. My Favorite “Do not type words in all uppercase letters. Just don’t. All uppercase words are bad for accessibility (a screen-reader reads each letter separately, not as a word) and are harder to read. They look, well, just plain unprofessional too.” Though… I think that in […]