Today’s podcast is ready to go, but both Big in Japan and Ourmedia are giving me problems. I’ll have it up as soon as one of the two services is feeling better.
Author Archives: theartguy
Academic Aesthetic Podcast 68
Many of you are already familiar with that great photo sharing site known as Flickr, but have you ever heard of NIPSA? NIPSA came to my attention when I was searching Flickr for photos tagged with “Second Life.” I’ll admit it, that game is very addictive, and one of the ways I find neat places …
Academic Aesthetic Podcast 67
In this podcast I address one of the most feared questions ever. As I’m typing this I’m just finishing part 2 of the Edupodder Pizzacast. (Part 1’s here, FYI.) Edupodder is a blog/podcast focussing mostly on topics that would be of interest to journalism majors in college, but naturally there’s plenty of overlap since blogging …
Academic Aesthetic Podcast 66
In this podcast I play with RSS feeds. A while back I ran into a problem. I’m sure you’ve had it too, but I’ll tell you about it anyway. I came to the conclusion that I didn’t have enough RSS feeds in my aggregator. (Ok, I’m assuming that most of you know what an aggregator …
Academic Aesthetic Podcast 65
In this podcast I lament the possible upcoming drought of educational blogs/podcasts, then review my plans for next year’s Art Club. This is the time of year when educators (at least in this hemisphere) start talking about the fast approaching summer vacation. Last year there was a trend among the edubloggers and edupodcasters – one …
Academic Aesthetic Podcast 64
Today’s podcast is one of those stories where a problem leads to a better solution. A couple days ago Ourmedia had a rather interesting glitch. Ourmedia.org, as you may or may not know, is a free, snazzy interface that allows you to upload almost any media file you wish to Archive.org‘s servers. Archive.org provides everyone …
Academic Aesthetic Podcast 63
I’d like to make a clarification on my last podcast. When I talked about Second Life not being the best place for education, I was referring specifically to the standard model that most administrators would probably try out. Mainly: “Hey, let’s make a virtual classroom and have all of the students hang out in the …
Academic Aesthetic Podcast 62
My 62nd podcast is mostly my opinion of Second Life. Second life is a fun, addictive game that can be as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be. Since users are encouraged to create modifications/additions/etc. there is a growing movement striving to see how Second Life could help educators. I’m not convinced, …
Adventures in WordPress
I still want to move this site over to a more dynamic host than Blogger, but I don’t want to dive in head first without checking how deep the water is. I’ve heard very nice things about WordPress, but not every host will support it. Lucky for me it only took a quick search on …
Inventory Progress
Days so far: 2 Days until inventory is due: 3 school days # of items on inventory: @300 (so far) # of trips to the dumpster: 4, plus a computer monitor box full of garbage that I haven’t taken out yet. % completed: 40 Weirdest item found: rubber snake, complete with plastic rattling tail Weirdest …