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…
Realizing your Childhood Dreams
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.
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…