Commentary about those things I find interesting.
I ran across this photo of an amazing painting on Flickr. Derrick says:
The story goes that the young Sesshu loved to draw. His love of drawing was so great that one time when he was tied to a post as punishment for an infraction at the temple he created a picture of a mouse with his tears.
IMG_1668.JPG by Derrick on Flickr.
People have been contacting me all day about the Blackboard iPhone App. Both Blackboard and the Chronicle of Higher Education posted blogs about its release.
I find it interesting Jessica mentioned a Georgia student is the inspiration in the Bb blog post. There are over 200,000 students in Georgia who cannot use this application because it relies on Blackboard Sync which only operates for Academic Suite (Classic) products. Blackboard says the Sync product isn’t available to the CE/Vista products used by all but a few schools in the University System of Georgia.
The odds are good the poor student who needs the app can’t use it.
Also, the USG is exactly the kind of client who Blackboard says should wait and see before migrating to Learn.
IMS XML for Blackboard Vista 8:
Say Division1 exists. We want to create Group1 inside Division1. Ignore that Division1 already exists and write XML to create it again. Create Group1 with relationship tag info for Division1.
Starting with Group1 doesn’t work unless command-line overrides starting learning context to be Division instead of Group.
Luminis XML for Blackboard Vista 8:
Starting with Group1 fine because divisions are unsupported.
Don’t ever use Luminis XML as a model for IMS. Ever!
George sent me this. I’m amazed at the work that went into making this face out of a cassette tape ribbon.
Flickr has millions of photos. (Maybe billions.) Many of these photos are tagged. One can look at all the photos with a tag. Every tag has a built in RSS feed. However, to view a combination of tags, one needs to search for the two tags.
Something I would like to see is an RSS feed for Flickr searches. Having to choose between duplication making see the same picture more than once or missing photos because users are… inconsistent.
This is easier than me moving some place else.
🙂
These contrails intersected in the sky at work. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
The Dali Wall on the UGA campus. I took this during a photowalk with other Flickr users. I’ll try and keep you informed through the Athens, GA Flickr Meetup group.
The Dali Wall on the UGA campus. I took this during a photowalk with other Flickr users. I’ll try and keep you informed through the Athens, GA Flickr Meetup group.
