Ramblings of a math and CS teacher

August 20, 2004

World’s Worst Website

Filed under: Uncategorized — danschellenberg @ 11:17 pm

If you have occasion to teach others the basics of web desgin, the Worlds Worst Website may prove a useful resource. The idea is to help new web page designers to avoid common mistakes by giving a number of non-examples.

August 5, 2004

Educational Technology Conferences Calendar

Filed under: Uncategorized — danschellenberg @ 10:28 am

In an attempt to come up with a reasonably simple means of staying up to date with current conferences in Educational Technology, I have created (as per Alec Couros’ request) a web calendar listing relevant conference dates and information. The calendar is an instance of php iCalendar, with the phpMyCal module installed.

You can subscribe to an RSS feed of the calendar in either day, month or year mode, or you can download or subscribe to the iCalendar formatted calendar (for use in such applications as Apple’s iCal, Mozilla Calendar, Ximian Evolution, KOrganizer, or WinDates).

According to the current setup, anyone can add, modify, and delete events, which will hopefully make the updating of this resource quite simple. If you know of a relevant event (ie. an educational technology conference) that is not currently listed, please feel free to add it. The current events are all taken from the list of Educational Technology conferences listed here: Educational Technology Conferences for 2004.

Go check out the calendar now!

Check out the screen shots of the calendar being used from within iCal or NetNewsWire Lite (RSS Feed).

EasyWMA 2.1.1

Filed under: Uncategorized — danschellenberg @ 8:32 am

If you are using a Mac, and have the need to listen to some WMA files, you can of course use the Windows Media Player, but if you want to convert the file to MP3 (perhaps for easy playback through iTunes), check out EasyWMA 2.1.1. Very neat, free tool that is a GUI front-end for ffmpeg.

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