I did not know that the memory cards I use most frequently do not have a “notch”. Today I installed a new Sandisk 6-in-1 PCMIA card reader in my laptop – replacing a memory stick card reader. The reason is that I need to handle both memory stick pro and secure digital cards.
Having installed the [...]

I have just come across a new article by Bonnie DeVarco (who visited HUMlab some time ago – her seminar on education innovation is available here). In “Earth as A Lens: Global Collaboration, GeoCommunication, and The Birth of EcoSentience”, DeVarco presents an indepth vision of a “3D NaonInfoBioSocioGeoAstro Browser” and draws on her expertise on [...]

Robert O’Dowd’s site on video conferencing in foreign language education seems useful. He is working on a Ph.D. thesis on this very topic. Also, his website seems to contain some interesting stuff. Among other things, links to webquests (a topic I should cover a bit more extensively in my book).

Today has been a rainy day and the general cloudiness makes this evening darker than it would have been else. It is still rather light (9:20 pm), but the relative darkness makes me long for winter. I am in my study – which I redecorated earlier this year – and I am anxious to see [...]

I have spent 10 hours the last couple of days trying to get file sharing working between my computers. Not a very exciting story I guess, but very annoying. I have used shared folders/drivers for years now, and my guess is that somehow NTFS ownership has become dysfunctional on my main computer (in my office). [...]

I spent a couple of hours today at my favorite caf

Clive Thompson writes about mobs creating art in “Can an online crowd create a poem, a novel, or a painting?” (in Slate through creative commons) . This is an interesting issue I think. Will artists be more collaborative in the future? It is difficult to generalize of course but to me it seems as if [...]

Duke will distribute 1,650 20-GB iPods to freshmen (from http://www.idg.se/, full story here):
The iPod project will encourage faculty to experiment with adding elements such as music, foreign language and poetry to class curricula,” she said. O’Brien cited as an example the elementary Spanish course taught by visiting assistant professor Lisa Merschel. Students in that course [...]

Book manuscript is now 318667 charachters (including spaces) and I just completed another chapter. Will now spend the next two weeks working on virtualization of language project and a few other things. Also, an English colleague and friend is coming tomorrow to visit. Today has been rather grey and rainy, and I hope things will [...]