Month: August 2009

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-08-21

  • At the office building shortcut lists in SharePoint. #
  • Anybody know of any best practices for voiceovers or narration within eLearning? #
  • I got a bunch of spam Twitter followers today. How do they make money following again? What is their WIIFM? #
  • Over 100 trees came down in that storm 2 days ago in New York’s Central Park. See the photos http://bit.ly/DReqN #
  • Got some good narration suggestions from before, and will process them tonight. More eLearning to build this evening. #

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Create Icon .ico Files

icofxWe decided that we are going to publish the eLearning modules I have been building as .exe files, so thought it would be nice to have the organzational logo as the icon by the file name. I always thought this happened by taking an image and giving it an .ico extension. Not!

Instead, I had to use an icon generation program, IcoFX (which is free, btw). I never knew that Adobe Captivate 4 only read icon files that are single files with 10 bundled-sized smaller images in them–that is what an icon or .ico file really is!

I have a lot of research I really need to attend to . . .

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-08-20

  • Anybody know of any best practices for narration or eLearning voiceovers? #
  • 2 new comments on “Silence and Voice” and more http://bt.io/7na #
  • New comment on “kipworld” http://bt.io/7lC #
  • I am rather sleepy. Need triple grande skim latte. #
  • Updated part of a project plan. 17 pages of Gantt Charts. Can’t wait to hear how the team reacts when they see it! #

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A Pause in Research, Oh so Brief!

I have had to temporarily stop the transcription for my doctoral research project due to some work and university eLearning modules I am finishing that have taken 100% of my non-full-time-job time. Will return to my research this weekend, full steam ahead!

While I have been so busy, I did smile broadly this morning when I came across an article in this morning’s New York Times, The Big Draw of a GPS Run. While the articles itself was fascinating (never considered turning on GPS and creating art with it!), I think there was a profound insight contained in a quote by Ellen Worthing, a GPS-using hiker, at the end of the article:

She likes that with a GPS device she can reimagine a landscape so imbued with history, patriotism and war. “Do we need to see what the U.S. Park Service wants us to see?” she asked. “Or can we see what we want to see?”

Creating her art as a contrast to the “established” purpose of the Fort McHenry National Monument, she exemplified freedom in a way I have not really considered before. Who are you to tell me what I see? Who are you to tell me how I should think? Who are you to tell me what this should mean? My meaning is my meaning, and how I see the world may at times be at odds with how others think it should be seen, or what it should mean. It took some time getting here, and I am thoroughly convinced that there is no such thing as a static and objective meaning, one that is the same for all people at all times.

Can there be a better example of the joys of qualitative research?

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-08-19

  • Have a 2 hour webinar coming up in 25 minutes. Who schedules these things during lunch?! #
  • I have been listening non-stop over the last 2 days to this great new song, “The Best Thing (2009)” by Hook n Sling. Fantastic. #
  • Depeche Mode ended their concert with Waiting For The Night. I gained an entirely new appreciation for that song . . . #
  • I love love love Depeche Mode. Seeing them two weeks ago in concert makes their music even more meaningful for me. #
  • All this running around / Well it’s getting me down / Just give me a pain that I’m used to. ~ Depeche Mode speaks for me tonight. #
  • I wanna know, can you tell me? I’d really like to stay ~ Annie Lennox #
  • Some day somebody’s gonna make you want to turn around and say goodbye ~ Wilson Phillips #
  • Because maybe / You’re gonna be the one who saves me? / And after all / You’re my wonderwall . OASIS #
  • I think Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ is my favorite Michael Jackson song. Love many of them, but this has always been my favorite. #
  • The thunder and lightning storm right now is like the end of days. #
  • When I work late, I listen to a wide range of music on iTunes. I so love Enya’s Orinoco Flow. #
  • Why oh why can’t Adobe Acrobat 4 have an easier way to set a default font! #
  • RT @deb_max: I am SO going to do this. http://bit.ly/4xg0Uu #dissertationashaiku (via @CMcGranahan). #
  • Enough checking email (I am behind, yet again). Time to put the final touches on the second of my three eLearning modules I am building. #
  • I think it is hotter outside now than in the afternoon. #
  • Meeting a colleague from #AERC who I have not seen in several years for lunch. #

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