tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69740342024-02-29T06:55:01.582+11:00noticedretrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-57271013816834093542010-01-10T09:39:00.002+11:002010-01-10T09:40:51.582+11:00Moving HomeI've moved this blog to Wordpress. You can find it here.retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-56073387220146861222009-06-25T13:07:00.022+10:002009-06-25T16:37:03.789+10:00Using CodeBaby to Create an Interactive ComicIn a previous post I mentioned that I'd won a 2009 LearnX Award for an online course I created for my employer, Telstra BigPond, using the wonderful CodeBaby application.The lovely CodeBaby people have popped a brief snippet of said course on their site as an elearning case study. Before you skip over there to have a look, I thought I'd just explain, briefly, how I put it all together.In one retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-66258642161812103252009-05-03T14:23:00.001+10:002009-05-23T10:10:04.645+10:00CodeBaby and me - LearnX award winning team!If you had been in my kitchen one Thursday afternoon in March you may have wondered why I was hopping up and down, clapping my sweaty little hands and squealing with glee. Luckily this silliness lasted but a few minutes before my usual calm serenity returned.You see, I'd just found out in a roundabout way that I had won a LearnX award, to be presented at their April 2009 conference. Considering retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-8288398849612971212008-11-30T15:30:00.004+11:002008-11-30T18:39:06.980+11:00noticed this week (ending 30/11/2008)Roundup of links from my Twitter feed:Free Practical guide - bringing together elearning & student retention; case studies, practical tips activities http://bit.ly/eEoKNew book: An administrator's guide to configuring, securing, customizing, and extending Moodle http://bit.ly/iOlBFlickrin; create a photo montage from Flickr photos, that can be embedded into a blog or web page http://retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-17022391216576597282008-07-11T11:37:00.002+10:002008-07-11T12:25:24.356+10:00Get us out of here; the room that time forgotThis week, I went on a short holiday trip to Beechwood in North East Victoria, mountain, wine and gourmet food country. Wanting to save my moolah for the finer things (food), I attempted to find some decent budget accommodation.Unfortunately the two (budget and decent) did not unite at the chosen establishment, quite an old building converted from its original purpose, a convent and school. I retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1288966657119587612008-06-30T12:34:00.014+10:002008-07-06T14:52:58.579+10:00Audio Recording TipsI've recently been working on some audio recording and editing for training modules; it's a learning curve to get it right so I wanted to keep a record of some points that are important to the process. This post is more of a reminder to myself more than anything else. Some of these actions I already had well in hand and some are as a result of the 'experience'.Before You Start:Write a script. I retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-36302049105216856212008-05-03T12:12:00.002+10:002008-05-03T12:21:35.532+10:00A Quiet Sunday MorningSo I'm out on the verandah, hanging out the washing and enjoying the peace and quiet when this car drives down the street, not one I've seen before.It starts up next door's driveway, which is 1 block over because it's a large double block. It seems to be going up slowly when I hear the tyres start to spin on the wet concrete. It gets worse and I hear the engine start to whine, as we say 'revving retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-61146757281751375802008-05-03T12:07:00.002+10:002008-05-03T12:10:38.239+10:00The ImposterI had a visit on the weekend from a neighbour across the road. She said 'Do you have a cat?'Yes - I have two.'Is one of them a black cat?'Yes - they both are'Does one of them have a red collar?'Well, it's orange really....At that point I'm thinking there's bad news at the end of the conversation.'I don't want to complain but I have to let you know he's been waking me up at 3.30am trying to get atretrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-90552787671132003132008-05-03T12:01:00.001+10:002008-05-03T12:05:00.435+10:00The Compleat Doggy TaleSo I'm driving to work, as usual, and stop at the lights of a main intersection.A slightly ' alternative lifestyle' looking person walks across the crossing, followed closely by a small, perky Jack Russell-type dog, not on a lead.They both clear the crossing and start off down the path. I glance away.I glance back and see the man approaching the dog with a large, flowery plastic bag. Hmm, I thinkretrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-16944378440289708062008-03-19T10:03:00.003+11:002008-03-19T10:11:12.188+11:00twitteringPeople seem to be enamoured with facebook and keep sending me messages on my funwall, poking and doing other strange things to me.I'm not sure why they can't just email me, like they did in the old days. Facebook is annoying - there's just too much 'stuff' and I really don't need to know absolutely every darn thing about every darn body.I don't mind LinkedIn; that's professional networking and retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1155340331643523202006-08-12T09:37:00.000+10:002006-08-12T09:52:23.446+10:00The month that was...I can honestly say that life is not dull at the moment. In the last month I:Have been in a temporary manager role but...Was told all our jobs are redundantReceived great feedback about leading the team but...Heard a comment that if I didn't really want to be a manager I shouldn't have been given the temporary roleWas awarded one of the company's top performance ratings but...Learned that we wouldretrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1138331801916036332006-01-27T14:07:00.000+11:002006-01-27T14:16:41.933+11:00nifty bubble tooltipsAlessandro is one clever cookie and just keeps coming up with the goods. In this article he explains how to create bubble style tooltips using CSS and a smidge of javascript, utilising the Title attribute of links.Two classes are used to position a single background image so that the content height can expand or contract as required.I can think of some good uses in my elearning modules already!retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1138226067541852992006-01-26T08:45:00.000+11:002006-01-27T14:18:47.890+11:00pocketmod and printing stuffFantastic Free and Fabulous!Pocketmod lets you set up and print a mini booklet in just about any format - as a calendar, organiser, reference, notebook and more. Even includes an instruction video to show you how to do the folding.Clever.pocketmodIn a kind of similar vein, how about being able to print graph paper whenever you need it? Lined, grids, dots - it's all here and it's all free. We loveretrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1136697061360022872006-01-08T15:56:00.000+11:002006-01-27T14:21:03.696+11:00care a little, gain a lotI returned to work after the christmas break and, even though I had a tonne of stuff to catch up on, I found myself spending 2 whole days fixing up a team member's online modules. Fred (let's call him Fred) had left me a short email to ask for them to be uploaded to be ready for training in 2 days time.Of course, I checked them out before doing this - I wish I hadn't in someways...Now, it wasn't retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1136696135366287912006-01-08T15:44:00.000+11:002006-01-27T14:22:57.173+11:00crash course in learning theory - don't miss it!Kathy Sierra has created a great Crash Course in Learning Theory post in her Passionate Users blog. I think these concepts, while perhaps not new, are laid out here in a comprehensive way that's easy for everyone to grasp and apply in some way.Obviously you can tweak to suit your own circumstances - a lot of the stuff that I do for instance has to be developed quickly and has to contain importantretrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1136695351578529202006-01-08T15:29:00.000+11:002006-01-27T14:24:24.943+11:00a little moock goes a long wayI'm currently wading my way through Colin Moock's Actionscript 2.0 (O'Reilly). I say wading because I'm finding it particularly heavy going. I really want to read it all but I'm finding that I put the book out on the bench or a nearby table and say 'I'll just do x and then will sit down and tackle you again'... 'Let me finish y and I'll be with you'... 'Really - I'm nearly there'...I had no retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1136240293349153012006-01-03T09:06:00.000+11:002006-01-04T17:57:44.103+11:00Web Developer Toolbar updated - yay!1. Chris Pederick does it again by updating the Web Developer Toolbar to version 1.0, and it's available for Firefox, Flock and Mozilla. The list of features shows how useful this little doovey is for us developers!2. Kathy Sierra writes... Learning Increases Resolution: "Learning adds resolution to what you offer. And the change happens not within the product, but between the user's ears. The retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1136076961484449492006-01-01T11:53:00.000+11:002006-01-01T11:57:01.056+11:00nuvvo is groovo!A Learning Management System for individual instructors - and it's free!From the Website:Now it is easier than ever to create your own online learning portal from which to create multimedia hubs for classrooms, post prep. and follow-up for live sessions, or run stand-alone courses online. With simple yet powerful content-creation, communication, and evaluation tools, Nuvvo is broadening the retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1135758322866878522005-12-28T19:17:00.000+11:002005-12-28T19:25:22.876+11:00clip it - clip it good!Clipmarks is a new little extension thingy for both IE and Firefox that could be useful."Clipmarks are for specific pieces of information on web pages. Just like when you read a magazine or newspaper, sometimes you want to highlight or tear out a specific part of the page, when you surf the web sometimes you want to remember specific pieces of content (like an image or a couple of paragraphs). retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1135727568995693152005-12-28T10:45:00.000+11:002005-12-28T10:54:37.530+11:00clever paper bookmark cornersPretty neat idea - little paper corners that you can print from a template and then slip onto whatever book you are reading. Great for those fussy people that you borrow books from who don't like you folding page corners.If you like, you can also add a few notes about the page onto the bookmark.Simple idea, nice solutionTags: paper corners DIY bookmarksretrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1135662256652914412005-12-27T16:32:00.000+11:002005-12-27T16:44:16.663+11:00unnecessary project managersI'm on a stinker of a project at the moment so am quite enjoying the christmas break, if just to be away from it for a few days. It's not the actual work involved so much, although it's not an easy task. It's the project manager.See, he's come up with this thing he calls a methodology framework. However there is not much in the way of actual 'methodology'. It's just a very barebones structural retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1133932622826369442005-12-07T16:08:00.000+11:002005-12-09T11:02:36.983+11:00look who's talking now...I 'think' I'm pleased to see this new Telstra site up and running, but not sure what others will feel about it. I can see the journalists having a bit of a field day.I like the simple Web 2.0-ish design, but unfortunately it doesn't validate and has a few accessibility issues but I'm sure they would not take much to fix.Glad to see Telstra blogging though - something I've wanted to see happen forretrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1129940078713201462005-10-22T10:14:00.000+10:002005-10-22T10:14:38.780+10:00FeedTier - RSS Web Feed Generator for Web Pages without SyndicationFeedTier - RSS Web Feed Generator for Web Pages without Syndication
FeedTier is a web feeds generator for web pages without an existing syndication format. FeedTier performs content analysis, picks-up the most prominent cluster of hyperlinks and automatically generates RSS web feeds from web pages without existing sydincation options. FeedTier is an experimental service and free for personal retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1128379863492276402005-10-04T08:50:00.000+10:002005-10-04T08:51:03.496+10:00snippy joeLooks like Joe Clark got a bit snippy with Steve Faulkner.Steve used Joe's A List Apart PDF Accessibility article in his WE05 session on the title attribute to demonstrate, in his opinion, inefficient use of it basically. Although Steve said he used the article because of the number of links it contained - over 80.I must admit I was surprised at the time - why would you pick on a high profile retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974034.post-1128234096343679902005-10-02T15:50:00.000+10:002005-10-02T16:33:46.743+10:00we05 summariesKevin Yank from Sitepoint has done a great job at summarising day 1 & 2 so I won't repeat most of it.Web Essentials 05 Day 1Web Essentials 05 Day 2I have to agree with Kevin's opinion about the SVG session with Dean Jackson. I came away not learning anything and that's a biggie for me. The talk was more of a ramble and lacked structure. Dean demonstrated some 'effects' I suppose but didn't retrogrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13116265087828318270noreply@blogger.com0