Over the past several months, I’ve been lucky enough to be able to devote part of my working hours to learning to use Adobe Flash (CS4). Because I was a complete beginner, I worked through some basic Lynda.com tutorials about Flash and ActionScript 3.0 before striking out on my own. I set the following four [...]
Betsy’s Eclection
Language + Technology
24
Feb
Dimdim vs. Elluminate: Fight!
Published in OpenSource, UncategorizedMy colleagues and I at the Distance Course Design & Consulting Group presented some research at the Hawaii Educational Research Association conference earlier this month, and based on that, I put together the VoiceThread presentation embedded below. (By the way, “Elizabeth Lavolette”? Yeah, that’s my alter-ego.) The research is a comparison of two virtual classroom [...]
22
Feb
WiseStamp email signature
Published in UncategorizedPeople have been asking me lately about my email signature, which looks like this: Elizabeth (Betsy) Lavolette MA, Second Language Studies betsylavolette.com Each of those little pictures is a link to my page on a social network: MyBlogLog, Flickr, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google Reader Shared Items. Click them and see! My Simpsons-style picture links [...]
16
Feb
Jewelry + USB storage = <3
Published in UncategorizedJess gave me the best Valentine’s Day gift! It leads one life as a lovely silver bracelet… And another as an 8-GB flash drive! Oh, the nerdly goodness. Oh, and by the way – I promptly made it a bootable Ubuntu drive. Whee!
11
Feb
Oh, that’s right. No need to adjust your set. What you see above is Windows XP running in a little window on Ubuntu 8.10. And yes, that’s iTunes running in XP. If you squint, you can just barely make out the words up there at the top of iTunes: “iPhone sync is complete.” Oh, yes. [...]
3
Feb
My bad luck with computers
Published in Uncategorized1
Feb
Teabag reindeer
Published in Origami, UncategorizedIt’s not exactly seasonal, but here’s my latest origami creation. If you want to get technical, it’s not a teabag reindeer, but a teabag-cover reindeer. What are those things really called, anyway? Like the other origami photos I’ve posted recently, the instructions are in Genuine Origami: 43 Mathematically-Based Models, From Simple to Complex, by Jun [...]