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Trevor's Brown Bag on Google & SEO
[youtube CEA6t2j9lns] Former LFS Web Coordinator Trevor van Hemert gave an excellent talk on SEO (“Search Engine Optimization”) and Google just before he left the faculty. Great work, Trevor! This video was made using iMovie ’11, which has made adding titles and slides very easy. I think it really enhances the quality of a recorded …
Presenting today at the OpenEd 2009 Conference
This past year, I helped teach AGRO 490, Special Topics in Agriculture and Digital Communications. Today, my teaching colleagues (Andrew Riseman, Kathryn Gretsinger & Cyprien Lomas) and I will be presenting about our course at the Open Ed 2009 Conference. Thanks to Brian Lamb, our colleague in OLT and the Open Ed conference organizer, for …
Google Map test
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BC Food Security map
I recently collaborated with Yona Sipos (LFS grad studentextraordinaire) to create this map of the 2008 BC Food Security Project. It’s a work in progess, but Google has made it extremely straightforward to create maps like these (Setting this one up took about 20 minutes) and it’s a visually engaging way to present the scope …
The Danger of 'Ding'
43 Folders, a blog on productivity and organizing, has an interesting entry on the distraction caused by email notification. In the course of writing this email I’ve been dinged three times and it’s interesting to consider what this does to work flow. I receive a fair amount of email (around 100 messages a day) most …
Blog o’ the Week: The Big Picture
Alan Taylor at the Boston Globe has started a fantastic new blog called The Big Picture. The premise is fairly simple: telling stories with large, engaging photos. Often, I find the web marginalises photojournalism and here the photos are given centre stage, much like Life magazine did a generation ago.
Wordle
Wordle is a cool new site that’s spreading like wildfire around the web. It allows you to create word clouds based on the tagging in your del.icio.us account or text. Word clouds (a broader form of tag clouds) make the size of text porportional to the frequency of its use. It also offers lots of …