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.
Back to school…
I did my homework for Introduction to Open Education! Check it out if you’re interested in that stuff.
Introduction to open education
Despite my new status as a graduate, I’m taking a class this semester, IPT 692R: Introduction to Open Education, taught by David Wiley at BYU. Obviously, he practices what he preaches – this course is available to me (and you, and anyone else) for free. While plenty of free educational materials are available on the […]
Western dragon
My boss generously gave me a Barnes & Noble gift card as a graduation present* (thanks, Melissa!), and I blew it all on a new origami book: Genuine Origami: 43 Mathematically-Based Models, From Simple to Complex, by Jun Maekawa. I’ve made several things so far, but this Western Dragon is the first one that I […]