Trying to be “green,” I reached over my seat to get the canvas bags I had for grocery shopping. Somehow, while I was doing this, my car keys ended up in the front seat now behind a locked car door! Never fear, OnStar is here! Now, what was that number? I dialed 800-4OnStar. Got a…
Category: Technology
Alice 3.0 Beta Tester
I am very excited that our new class CIS 159 Programming in Alice will be beta testing Alice 3.0 software. You may have been following my earlier post: https://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=156 We made the final cut, and I’m heading out to Carnegie Mellon University in January to prepare for the testing. I am very thankful and excited…
JRuler and JRuler Pro
Check out JRuler and JRuler Pro http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jruler.htm. These is a wonderful little tools I use for web design. Sometimes you just need to measure what is on the screen, and these will do that very easily for you! The JRuler Pro even lets you set the ruler at an angle to measure. I give this…
Creating VLANs on 29xx Catalyst Switches
To create VLANs you must first enter the vlan database command at the privileged exec prompt. That should move you to the Switch(vlan)# prompt. You can then set up your VLANs with the vlan xx name yyyyyy command where xx and yyyyyy are the vlan number and name respectively. See Creating VLANs on Catalyst Switches…
SnagIT9
Think of SnagIT as the best way to capture things on your screen — a much better alternative to the Alt-Print Screen key combination. I have been a user of SnagIT and am currently using version 5.0. I believe that newer is not always better, and that you need to find a balance between feature…
Suny Hosts Demo with Eloise Pasteur
Crash Thibaud from Monroe Community College invited me to attend a demo of Instructional Tools for Second Life created by Eloise Pasteur. Here are some of the things she demonstrated: Not-yet-released: Histogram plotter — she used Google stocks as an example — Crash typed in the stock code and the Histogram “scraped” the web and…
Sending Documents to the Kindle
For a 10 cent fee, you can send documents in the following formats: Microsoft Word (.DOC) Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM) JPEG (.JPEG, .JPG) GIF (.GIF) PNG (.PNG) BMP (.BMP) PDF — this is experimental to yourkindlename@kindle.com. You can also send zipped folders with your documents. With this, your documents will be converted and sent directly…
I’m on the List!
My classmates Sean and Kristy, the recommendations from Dr. Gibson on “The Last Lecture,” and our game development curriculum grant inspired me to dig further into the Alice Programming Language. As a result, I submitted to be a beta tester for Alice 3.0 Spring 2009. To do this we need to offer a course in…
An Open House in Second Life
We held our Open House for the EICCD Virtual Campus in Second Life on May 1st. We had some CCC students, and several others present representing faculty, administration, and staff. I saw that my Boise State friends, Dalai and Geneva were online so invited them, too. They came to the Student S.N.A.P. (stands for Student…
Making an Instructional Game as Inviting and Addicting to Play as W.O.W.
I ask my studnets, “How can I make an instructional game that will teach you networking concepts as inviting and addicting to play as W.O.W.?” The response I received was, “Well, I don’t know, maybe you could come up with something like a Super Mario game,” replied one student. When I probed, he indicated that…