Our local fabric store, Neal’s Vacuum and Sewing Centers has recently (October 2006) started a Buck-a-Block-a-Month club. This is where you buy a $6.00 kit of Thangles to start with your first block; then, the remaining months are just $1. What is the catch? The catch is that you need to bring back your…
Author: Lori
Viking Opens up New Design Website
Viking has just announced their new design shopping site at My Embroideries. At this site, you are able to search through designs and order them individually instead of as a design set. Ready, set, sew!
What’s on Your Zipper? YKK?
Are you wearing something with a zipper on it? Chances are that it also has the letters "YKK" on it. What does that mean? "YKK" stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha, the largest zipper manufacturer in the world.
w.bloggar Manage Posts
Upon recommendation from PC Magazine, in its March 2008 issue that lists the Best Free Software: 157 Hot Apps for Work and Play, I found a reference for w.bloggar to manage you blog posts. I had used Qumana, with varied results; so when I saw this, I thought I would give it a try. I…
New Hope for Tired Eyes!
Quite by accident, I discovered that if I held down the Ctrl key while I used the mouse scroll wheel; the text on my screen got BIGGER! I was in IE reading my webmail when I discovered this, and I will definitely be using it all the time now! I’m also going to see what…
Digital Immigrants vs. Digital Natives — I’m a Digital Pioneer!
There is talk about the “Digital Divide” in our classrooms. Digital immigrants are defined as those people who did not grow up with computers. Considering the IBM Personal Computer came into being August 12, 1981 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC), digital natives would need to have been born after that time. And it was some time after that as…
Blooming Rose X 100
At our Girl Scout Winter Weekend, we rotated 100 girls through five different stations (25 minutes each with 5 minutes to travel in between stations) on the topic of “Science is Fun!” My station was “Science that Cooks.” We made the Blooming Rose with the recipe that follows: Discuss safety issues. (ex. hot burner, cleanliness,…
WIIFM?
My professor, Barry Bratton at the University of Iowa always wanted us to think about the “WIIFMs” when we designed instruction. “WIIFM” stands for What’s in it for Me??? It is pronounced “wiff-em.” I thought about that when I read fellow classmate (Jim’s) posting on our class discussion board. He was relating to us a story…
Scavenger Hunt in Second Life
Tonight in our class, we had introductions and discussion in the treehouse area. As the sun went down, we did a “Force Sun” and went on a Scavenger hunt. Through notecards and teleports, we navigated through some very interesting places. I found myself very frustrated at the rate of refresh on some areas (the fountain…
Instructional Design Theory
As one of our first assignments, we were asked to create our own Instructional Design Theory. I focused mine specifically on the theory as it is applied to Game Development. Here is what I developed: IDTheory-LoriWalljasper.pdf