Posts by Betsy:
The Web Laureate: I’m a new fan
I was surprised and honored to find that The Web Laureate had linked to my post about Dimdim vs. Elluminate within a lovely poem. Apparently, this is what the Web Laureate does. I’ll describe it as Web 2.0 through the eyes of a poet. But you should check it out for yourself.
In tribute, here is a haiku by yours truly. You can guess your own title.
"Fairy Ring Champignons" by polandeze, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.
Toadstools: alone are
dull, worthless; but together
round a fairy ring
Ubuntu 8.10 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note
Image via Wikipedia The tale of my HP 2133 Mini-Note is long and frustrating. I love it because it is small and light – it’s a netbook, and weighs less than 3 pounds, including the battery and AC adapter. I hate it because it is constantly breaking. I bought it in May of 2008, and […]
Open-source Flash quiz maker
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 […]
Dimdim vs. Elluminate: Fight!
My 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 […]
WiseStamp email signature
People 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 […]
Jewelry + USB storage = <3
Jess 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!
Syncing my iPhone using Ubuntu! (and magic)
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. […]
My bad luck with computers
Currently reinstalling Windows. Even Ubuntu couldn’t save me.
Teabag reindeer
It’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 […]
Why origami monsters always gotta fight?
devil vs. tyrannosaurus by Elizabeth Lavolette is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.