Last Saturday at art class was kind of frustrating. It all started with my composition of what should have been a simple, basic still life consisting of a pear, lemon, and apple became three blobs of color. I’m also having a lot of trouble mixing colors. I’d pretty much given up on this one about […]
My second and third oil paintings (Monday, July 30th, 2007)
What’s really going on in K-12 educational technology (Sunday, July 29th, 2007)
I spent three days last week at the MACE MTI Conference in Bonner Springs, Kansas. There were some really slick presentations I hope to write more about soon, and a couple of total duds (Apple’s podcasting presentation probably did more of a disservice than anything to their wonderful suite of tools for this application). What […]
Editing screencasts in iMovie (Monday, July 23rd, 2007)
After many disappointing efforts to edit my screencasts in iMovie, only to have the software totally munge the video quality during the conversion to one of its native formats, I finally hit upon the right string of Google keywords to find what I needed to know. Simply put, you need to determine your resolution up […]
My first oil painting (Saturday, July 21st, 2007)
Today I finished my first oil painting. I’m enrolled in a six-week class at the Lawrence Arts Center. We were presented an angular head to sketch and then paint using only black and white paints, focusing on sharp and smooth lines.
This is what I came up with. I guess it’s OK. Honestly, I think the […]
Easy slideshows in Moodle with Keynote (Tuesday, July 17th, 2007)
Everybody knows I use Moodle quite a bit, but what they might not now is I now use Keynote exclusively for anything I’m doing that’s slide-y in nature. Hey, if it’s good enough for Steve Jobs it’s good enough for me.
One of the things I like about it is just how easy it is to […]
The iPhone camera (Sunday, July 15th, 2007)
My favorite feature of the iPhone rotates daily. Right now it’s the built-in camera. I know, it’s not that innovative–but I have to say, it’s nice being able to take respectable photos on the spot without lugging around an SLR (or even a standalone point-and-shoot). And it’s leaps and bounds higher in quality than what […]
Whatever, I like my iPhone! (Friday, July 13th, 2007)
Hey, guess what. I bought an iPhone last week.
I wasn’t really planning on it, but you know who it is–you’re in the market for a smart phone, existing smart phones (the ones Sprint offers, anyway) suck, your contract has been up for months, you’re at the Apple Store at the Galleria, one of the geniuses […]
