Posts by Betsy:
Cacoo – easy diagram creator
I learned about Cacoo from @NikPeachey and immediately started using it make diagrams. It’s extremely easy to use. My favorite feature is probably the ability to snap-to. I am pretty lazy when it comes to lining up parts of a diagram and tend to eyeball it. Now, I don’t have to!
One of Cacoo’s selling points is that it allows realtime collaboration on diagrams – but I haven’t tried that out yet.
DCDC Diagram, made using Cacoo
Guest post on GO! 日本語４年生！
As promised, here’s the Japanese version of the guest post I wrote for Notre Dame Japanese teacher Noriko Hanabusa.
Guest post on GO! にほんごいちねんせい！2009-2010
I wrote about my experiences working in Japan for Noriko Hanabusa’s first year Japanese class blog at Notre Dame. I also wrote a Japanese version, which will be coming soon! Check out the goofy picture of me at the top of the post, which is also my photo for my job as Language Technologist (aka […]
Lunarpages domain name scam
I used to use a webhosting company called Lunarpages. I was happy with them until they raised their rates. So, I decided to switch to Just Host. I informed Lunarpages on August 16 that I would be switching hosts. My site went up on Just Host on August 16. Just Host asked for my current […]
Ruby on Rails for a dummy (me)
I know – the above app isn’t much, but oh, the time it took me to get it working! I’ve been trying to follow a Lynda.com video tutorial on Ruby on Rails – just the part about getting started! – for a couple of weeks now. The first stumbling block is that the tutorial was […]
DCDC Monthly Feature: Google Reader
A short article (plus slideshow) that I wrote about Google Reader is currently the monthly feature on the Distance Course Design and Consulting Group website. Of course, it’s my job to write them, but you could check it out anyway. Those are my hands in the pictures, by the way – and you can see […]
South Bend Table Tennis Center
We’ve been living in South Bend for almost two weeks now – without encountering anyone in the outside world except for the people in Jess’ program (who are great people, by the way). So, I started brainstorming things that I could do to get out more, and found the website for the South Bend Table […]
New credentials
One great benefit of my current job is that I have access to lynda.com, where I can learn various tech skills. So far, I’ve learned to use Adobe Flash, ActionScript 3.0, and most recently, PHP. When you complete a course, which means viewing all of the instructional videos, you can download a PDF certificate of […]
The move from paradise
I’m back! My husband, Jess, and I moved from Honolulu to Dimondale, Michigan recently. But not really together. That is, we started and ended together, but took very different paths. His path wasn’t exactly straight, but got him here in less than 24 hours. He flew from Honolulu to Las Vegas to Minneapolis to Detroit. […]