Jan
28
ebook test
January 28, 2008 | 14 Comments
To get the direct url from NetLibrray,
1. Go to the sirsi record.
2. Right clik on url link called “url”
3. Select Copy Shortcut.
4 Then paste it into a document or html page
5 Remove the leading and ending junk.
It should look something like this link.
Jan
28
Tagging and Del.iciu.us - #13
January 28, 2008 | 9 Comments
The tutorial was interesting to watch. In it she says delicious is best for 1. doing research and 2. making shared reading lists.
I think delicious has a lot of power for sharing information. I went into my delicious account, did research on freshmen reading programs and then tagged them with the (currently) unique tag freshmen_book. I could send this tag around to interested people and they could type it in and see what I tagged. They could also comment. The problem is that many of the people I would send the link to might find the use of delicious a barrier, rather than an aid. I could just send them a list in an email and it might be better for them.
Jan
22
Rollyo # 12
January 22, 2008 | 2,429 Comments
I created this search box using Rollyo. The box searches all of the websites which are on my Best Bets Guide for Research in Economics. It is extremely easy to create a search box, selecting a limited number of sites to search, and then pasting the html coding. I can see this being very useful for creating research guides or class handouts. Link to rollyo is http://www.rollyo.com/. Bummer that the results page has ads though.
Jan
22
Library Thing # 11
January 22, 2008 | 13 Comments
I created a widget which displays the covers of the books I put in Library Thing. The 7 books shown were used by me in a Economics class I did today.
How can I use this for work? If I want to show book covers on the DNL Report blog, I can make a list of them in LibraryThing and easily get thr source coding to diplay them in my blog.
Jan
22
Monk Mashup
January 22, 2008 | 458 Comments
I created this video mashup on the Monk USA website. Sadly, no Dr. Kroeger!
http://mashups.usanetwork.com/monk/pickup.php?id=063540F7-5068-090E-67DD-489CFA192A07
Are you a MONK fan?
Jackie
Jan
14
image generators #10
January 14, 2008 | 12 Comments
I tried fototrix.com. I wouldn’t recommend it. I had trouble getting the image to look good.
I also tried shadowfire to Warholize a picture http://www.shadowfire.de/warholizer. It is very cool. Becaase it only allows me to save my image to my computer, and WordPress bloggging software requires a url to display a picture, I cannot show the Warholized image here.
I tried FD toys and Generator. The only way I could get teh images onto my blog was wither to save it to a flickr account or get the html coding and put it in. The warhol one is from bighugelabs.com
jackie
Jan
3
Well it’s hilarious, but is it fair use? #20
January 3, 2008 | 20 Comments
Check out the You Tube video “10 Things I Hate About the 10 Commandments” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs
See two professors from American University talk about the fair use of music and video and how mash-ups are transforming our culture http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2638/ (with accompanying linked report0.