New RSS Feed, New Blog, New Domain: davidleeking.com- February 27, 2006 update: Looking for me Go to http:www.davidleeking.comI have an assignment for all you readers: PLEASE go to your feed reader RIGHT NOW, and switch to my new feed: http:www.davidleeking.comfeedWhy I now have a new website: http:www.davidleeking.comSome of you will remember that I promised to do this ... well, I finally did. Yippie!I will blog about all the same stuff I always blog about - just under my own domain name rather than Blogger's. So - stop what you're doing right now ... come on .....http://daweed.blogspot.com/2006/02/new-rss-feed-new-blog-new-domain.html The Future of Tag Clouds- February 24, 2006 update: Looking for me Go to http:www.davidleeking.comThis is an interesting article about the future of tag clouds (written by Joe Lamantia). Here's how Joe sees tag clouds developing over the next 18 months:More people will recognize them and understand what they do (ok, that one's a no-brainer)more support for "cloud consumers" to meet context needs (interesting...)attached controls or features and functionality that allow cloud consumers to directly change the context, content, and...http://daweed.blogspot.com/2006/02/future-of-tag-clouds.html PDAs in the Classroom- February 20, 2006 update: Looking for me Go to http:www.davidleeking.comI saw this article a few days ago, and thought I'd share... Basically, the article discusses a Kansas City-area middle school that is experimenting with PDAs - as in, 600 PDAs (the school district spent about $180,000).Their goal To prepare their students for the 21st century! The article actually says this: "Many educators think that preparing students for the 21st century goes beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic - students must be...http://daweed.blogspot.com/2006/02/pdas-in-classroom.html Congrats, Michael!- February 14, 2006 update: Looking for me Go to http:www.davidleeking.comMichael Stephens rocks. Now he's going to teach others to rock, too.http://daweed.blogspot.com/2006/02/congrats-michael.html WordPress Installation on a local computer- February 10, 2006 update: Looking for me Go to http:www.davidleeking.comUrbanGiraffe rocks! I just installed WordPress on my laptop (took me MUCH longer than five minutes, but what the hey - I haven't a clue as to what I'm doing).My ultimate goal is to figure out how to create my own WordPress theme - and installing WordPress was an amazing good way to start. Now I can hack away knowing I'm not really going to break anything.So if you want to play around with WordPress or with themes, check this guy's tutorials..http://daweed.blogspot.com/2006/02/wordpress-installation-on-local.html Notes from the "Designing Library Experiences for Users" Webcast- February 7, 2006 update: Looking for me Go to http:www.davidleeking.comI just finished listening to the Blended Librarian Live Webcast: Designing Library Experiences For Users. Aradhana Goel, Senior Information Designer at Maya Design, gave the webcast. It was good! I'd recommend y'all to listen to one sometime - they do a good job.I took some notes during the webcast - here they are:Wow - over 90 peoplesites logged in - that's a large webcast!Talking about the library's bookdrop - "The bookdrop is hiddennot...http://daweed.blogspot.com/2006/02/notes-from-designing-library.html posting from my treo- February 1, 2006 update: Looking for me Go to http:www.davidleeking.comJust testing out the Treo. Did you know you can actually reach blogger's web-based admin area using the Treo Blazer web browserOf course that also means that I'm hunched over and typing on a thumb keyboard... very slowly.But a successful test, nonetheless.http://daweed.blogspot.com/2006/01/posting-from-my-treo.html |