Projects
Fireworks – it hovers and it swaps
Up until late last year, I’ve never touched Fireworks at all. I’ve used Photoshop and Dreamweaver heavily in web design and publishing but I didn’t realise the potent power of Fireworks in creating fancy looking buttons and interesting hovering techniques. The project I was asked to work on is to develop an interactive floorplan of our [...]
Projects
blogging and reality tv mashed up
Background: Blogging will soon become one of the target technologies that more and more educators would need to adapt to. Gone are the days that releasing content online (lecture notes, tutorial papers, past year final exam papers), encouraging discussion board conversations, and online assessment using quizzing tools are basis of an effective online delivered course. Educators [...]
Projects
PHP backbones
During uni (university), I never focused on the scripting language they called PHP. Basically, I was not interested nor was I hoping to use it one day. Come work-time, I couldn’t believe that a number of my projects would actually require me to use it. It was a potent tool to connect to databases, this Wordpress [...]
Projects
technology: how do we actually ‘use’ it?
In a few month’s time, I’ll be presenting in Sydney for the “Embracing Innovative eLearning Technologies” which focuses on emerging trends in education/training with the effective use of technologies. From past presentations, I’ve always focused in introducing educators to emerging technologies such as podcasting. I would give a few case studies however, I’ve rarely really [...]
Projects
topographic map
Today I finished a project with a collague teaching in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department of RMIT. I learned a lot about combining design skills in Fireworks and Javascript using the thickbox script (shout out to James for this, mate, still no idea about that Toxicology project). The aim was to assist learners in familiasing themselves with [...]
Reviews
gourment blogs
Posted on 12 May 2009
I was reading an article at PC World about bloggers like John Chow earning money through advertising in their blogs. Blogging for dollars This reminded me of Google, the landscape in the internet where ads equals revenue (good revenue). I won’t be going through the whole Google AdSense process, what is interesting is that we are seeing [...] Continue Reading
Reviews
(Moll-ecular) Mobile Web Design
Posted on 04 March 2008
By this time, you would have discovered that I like playing with words when I write titles. : ) I’ve just read part (free sample) of the Mobile Web Design book by Cameron Moll (cameronmoll.com) available from (http://mobilewebbook.com/). It is really an interesting view and analysis (based from articles, data, and ‘words of wisdom’) formulated by Cameron. My first [...] Continue Reading
Reviews
Chow down the ebook about blogs
Posted on 02 March 2008
EBOOK: John Chow: Make Money Online With John Chow dot Com Blogging is simply, an online journal. A diary, a notebook, a review page maybe – a place for users to express emotion, convey a message, or share information through the online platform: one of the backbone principles why the web/internet exists. After reading John Chow’s free [...] Continue Reading
Links
goldfish memory
Posted on 22 February 2008
Remember my recent post about ‘activities’? What the, did my memory fail me? I’ve encountered a similar project’s website before: Technology Supported Learning Database http://aragorn.scca.ecu.edu.au/tsldb/index.php It’s in Edith Cowan Uni in WA. Is the water in WA different from Vic? They seem to produce great minds there. Let me paln my move there. : ) Continue Reading
Random thoughts
writing for the web
Posted on 19 February 2008
There’s this idiomatic expression “dot the i’s and cross the t’s” which means : to do something very carefully and in a lot of detail (http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/dot+the+i’s+and+cross+the+t’s) I was looking at my previous posts and read a few spelling mistakes – colleague became collague… haha. It wasn’t intentional but in this age where ‘r u l8′ [...] Continue Reading
Reviews, Technology
Where did my files go?
Posted on 15 February 2008
Early this year after my 3 week holiday in the Philippines, I hooked my Seagate external harddrive to my laptop. After waiting for a few minutes, the was no response and the drive or files didn’t show up. PANIC! Did my harddrive just collapse on me? It’s not even 1.5 years old yet!!!!!!!!!!! A mate of [...] Continue Reading
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