a.k.a. “The Last Lecture” This is a powerful, inspirational message for all. Randy Pausch is a guru in virtual reality, and responsible for Alice Programming.
Category: Technology
A Kindle is in my Future
My very near future… like Monday! I had ordered three $100 gift certificates from my daughter’s school fundraising program. With just $99 more, that Kindle was in my Shopping Cart — and then the order was confirmed! I have written a grant to try to use in my classes for my students. I am particularly…
Readers and Scanners
GoToWebinar : Webinars & Web Events Made Easy. Award-Winning Web Casting & Online Seminar Hosting Software My colleague and friend Steve Holland did this demo using SoftChalk. He made some interesting points on designing content for eLearning (but it really goes for printed reports and websites, too) “Readers” and “Scanners.” He showed how the newspaper…
Auto Scripting
Script Me! This seems to be a very useful site; not only for the scripts you can have generated, but for the knowledge you can gain from looking at the scripts it generates! This was written by Ann Enigma and is released under creative commons license. You may wish to donate to the site to…
Building in a Holodeck — Project Progress
I found a great YouTube video from Inside this World about their Holodeck. That looks pretty neat for developing my project — I will need to purchase the Production model for this. As I was experimenting with the Demo Holodeck located in a skybox above our virtual campus, I inadvertently changed the main teleport for…
Changing the Configuration Register from ROMMON
Occassionally, I see the rommon 1> prompt when I log into one of our lab routers. Usually, that means that the configuration register is set to boot from rommon. So…to change that type: rommon 1 >confreg 0x2102 In order for that to take effect, power-cycle the router. Cisco Reference
Gaming in Teacher Ed
I thought the SimSchool and VirtualU projects sounded fantastic for teaching new teachers. First of all, I never trained to be a college instructor! I was a product of an A.A.S. degree at the community college, and I went to work immediately – actually while still attending school full time! I saw that advancement in…
Starting a New Process in VB
The VB.NET LinkLabel System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(“http://visualbasic.about.com”) As part of my quest to consume the Amazon Web Service, I wanted to link to the amazon page where this was found. So…I made it so I could do just that! Found some other useful things here. The previously blogged Code Guru page by Karl Moore gave me the jumpstart…
Got My Developer ID
After signing the Agreement Terms of Service, I was emailed a welcome message that I am now able to access the Amazon Web Services. While they have both paid and free, I am going to access the free ones because I just want to play!!! 🙂 The email message sent me to a link that,…
Following Code Guru — Amazon Web Service
Amazon.com: Homepage: Amazon Web Services The link in the Code Guru to get an ID did not take me where I wanted to be so I did a search on “amazon developer” and found this. I am hoping this will be my answer to the next step in setting up this web service.