Cubicle Freakout

I was enjoying Michelle Malay Carter's blog this morning. She has a link to the Wii Remote SmartBoard Video, suggesting it makes the Wii a business expense! She also has a nice collection of funny YouTube videos and a link to a Flash game, quite unlike the CLIPs ones, called Cubicle Freakout.

Incidently, PhD graduate student Johnny Lee's Wii Project page lists some other neat things to do with the Wii Remote. They might even make a cool Science Fair Engineering project.

Here is an example of one of the YouTube videos she features:

Underestimating Children?

The New York Times reports the following conversation between a child and a contender for the U.S. presidency:

“Who is your favorite author?” Aleya Deatsch, 7, of West Des Moines asked Mr. Huckabee in one of those posing-like-a-shopping-mall-Santa moments.

Mr. Huckabee paused, then said his favorite author was Dr. Seuss.

In an interview afterward with the news media, Aleya said she was somewhat surprised. She thought the candidate would be reading at a higher level.

“My favorite author is C. S. Lewis,” she said.

Sometimes truth is funnier than comedy.

See Knowledge being created and negotiated in real time

Tim Hawes' recent blog post references a site where you can watch anonymous Wikipedia edits being made. Read the FAQ to see the various databases and APIs that are being used to create it.

Man fired for posting a Dilbert Cartoon

I think that I may need more than one blog so that these posts aren't so unrelated to one another. But I got a kick out of this posting to the Dilbert Blog.

Disclaimer: No one I have ever worked with or for in any way resembles a drunken lemur.

Comparison of E-Learning Screen Capture Tools

I have been involved with a group looking at the pros and cons of using Techsmith's Camtasia, Adobe Captivate and Adobe Presenter. A wiki with some youtube videos and a preliminary comparison chart is available for editing.

Mathematical Poetry Blog

I set up a RSS feed, using blogsearch.google.com, of new pages that reference The Geometer's Sketchpad. The first useful result is from a blog about Mathematical Poetry. The blog is featuring artistic works currently and mentions one mathematical artist's use of Sketchpad.

Here is one fascinating example of Mathematical Poetry from an earlier post:

My first Flash Game

This is Dropball!

What is the role of memory in schools?

Father Guido reflects...

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

What is the machine?
A great video to describe the shift in thinking that comes with Web 2.0.

Web 2.0 Tools

I am spending the day with Will Richardson exploring some Web 2.0 tools.

Among the neatest things have been

• Google Reader where RSS feeds can be aggregated including
• other people's blogs
• google blog search
• people's del.icio.us tagged links
• photos from flickr e.g. html://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/math
• videos from youtube etc.

Tim Hawes shared a site with tutorials in plain English for these tools.

John Taylor found an interesting Adobe Connect Video