Saw a great feature in Facebook today that changes the native language to English Pirate. Made me really laugh and it is easy to do … 1) Scroll to the bottom of your Facebook page. 2) On the bottom left corner, click English: US. 3) When the language selection appears, click English: Pirate. 4) watch what happens. Nice when there are still things that can make me laugh.

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We’ve been crazy about making tag stickers for all sorts of events. We use moo.com and take images that either we create in house or ones people coming to the events submit to us. Last summer we had some really cool ones made for the Learning Design Summer Camp from personal icons people submitted to the wiki. A few months earlier, we had an amazing set of them made for the 2008 TLT Symposium that became quite the popular item around campus and beyond. I even stuck some to my laptop and the back of my Cinema Display! My Laptop. Credit ghbrett on Flickr. For one reason or another we...

We’ve all heard the jokes and snickers about Microsoft’s infamous usability (ahem) in their tools. Today I have been working on my presentation for the NMC Symposium on Mashups that I am to give next week via Adobe Connect. I know Connect fairly weel as I use it here at PSU with some regularity and we have perhaps one of the best ACP for teaching and learning experts (I am a little biased) in the country sitting down the hall from me in Yvonne Clark. So when I need to know something I can feel certain I am getting a solid answer. Anyway, I am working up my slides using PowerPoint...

Not much to say at the moment … I am actually relaxing and enjoying being off the grid. I am getting ready to do some travel in the coming weeks — I am heading back to Arizona to give a couple of talks back in the Maricopa system. I did one there last year and really enjoyed the people I got to talk with their. For now, I am staying off the grid and will probably be posting pictures of my travels over at Flickr. For now, I thought I’d share a quick picture of some really bad signage I saw yesterday at Downtown Disney. Who wouldn’t like a Hot Roast Beef Smoothie?

Just got back to my office after a lunch meeting and thought I’d do a little RSS before my 1:30 … tried to hit Google Reader and I see the following: The rest of the Internets is fine, just Google … no calendar either. Never thought I’d see that one.

I was supposed to be in Atlanta this week for ELI, but alas I am still sick after nearly 10 full days. Ear infection, sinus infection, and now the worst sore throat I think I’ve ever had. The bummer with missing ELI is that I actually really like their take on things — they pay attention to the little guy and innovation seems to matter to them. It is so less formal than the big Educause annual event … it is just a nice place to spend a few days. The other bummer was that I was going to get to hang out with three great high school friends who moved to Atlanta years ago. Oh...

My friend Brad beat me to this one … last night we took Madeline to get her picture taken with Santa at the Nittany Mall.  Let’s just say it was an interesting experience.  Not only was the big guy 45 minutes late coming back from the “feeding the reindeer” break, but the whole thing was a bit unsettling. As we were standing in line, Madeline asked “do I really need to sit on that guy’s lap”  Let me remind you that she is turning 5 in a couple of days, so she could see right through this “Santa’s” makeup.  The thing that blew my...