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An article about trying to run a blog while sailing off the coast of Mexico. It’s sounds hard but not impossible.

Sailboat Blogger Vies for Seaside Broadband

This is more of a note to myself:

I used my friend’s SCORM conformant Flash template that he created in late 2005/early 2006. He stopped using it in a SCORM LMS and then added the code to prevent the ActiveX control from appearing in IE. I started a project last year with it and just got the files back “assuming” that I could plop it into my LMS. Unfortunately, the version of flashObject (1.3.c) he used since moving away from the LMS blocked the setValue calls from the Flash movie so it wouldn’t pass the score. It wasn’t until my other colleague recommended I use a newer version of flashObject, swfObject 1.4.4, that it worked.

MMM, Bull bile:

Whats Inside: Red Bull

A short post on a company that has licensed EA’s Madden franchise and combined it with their own technology to use the game to train new plays.

Another great example of using games for learning.

Game | Life - Wired Blogs

It’s sailing season again in the lovely Baltimore Harbor. Here is a re-post from mere weeks after I learned to sail. Hopefully, I’ll add to them before my ASA 103 Course.

In preparation for classes and shunning all of my multimedia instructional technology skills, I made a pdf of flash cards that contain important sailing terms for beginners. I’m sure there are WAY more terms, but this is my first downloadable thingy for people.

While I was ego surfing checking for links to my site, I found this lovely review:

1 green download

In our tests, we found downloads on this site were free of adware, spyware, and other unwanted programs.

I scored a 0 out of 10 on the nuisance meter...I think that's good. They were referring to my sailing terms flash cards.

When the media comes out from last night, I plan on putting my presentation up here.

Some things I mentioned last night:

Papervision 3d - [Link]

RPG Storyteller - [Link]

Blender 3D - [Link]

I’ve been away from my blog for a while now. In the last 60 days, I’ve given four different presentations across the country (6 in the last 90 days). Fortunately, two were pretty similar so I didn’t need to re-work the content too much.

A recap of my presentations for the year:

January 17th - I was at the Baltimore chapter of the Society of Technical Communicators (STC) and presented on new technologies and their use in communication. The topics included blogs, wikis and podcasts.

IIT CAC

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For the 2, possibly 3, people that read this…

I’m transferring servers and this blog may be down for a couple of days.