NECC 2003

This is an anniversary of a sort. I started this blog as a short term demonstration based on NECC 2002 (note first entries). The idea was to chronicle some of the things I saw and learned at the conference. I later decided to continue keeping an online account of resources and ideas as much for my own benefit as for anyone else. I do appreciate the visits from those of you who were curious and especially those of you who bothered to come back.

The original post – a goals statement:

iv. to teach them this techne, should they desire to learn [it], without fee and written covenant, and to give a share both of rules and of lectures, and of all the rest of learning, to my sons and to the [sons]of him who has taught me and to the pupils who have both make a written contract and sworn by a medical convention but by no other. (from the Hippocratic oath – translated).
http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/oath.htm

It is not time for NECC 2003. My next posts will originate from Seattle.

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Microsoft Producer

Here is a new multimedia authoring tool for you to explore (if you both operate a recent Windows system and own a recent version of Microsoft Office). Producer is an intuitive and FREE product allowing the integration of many media types. My understanding that it is primarily a way to connect PowerPoint slides with other things (audio, video) using wizards and then publish (CD, web, etc.). Lots of options. Did I mention free?

Here is a demo I created – Demo. (Windows users only)

Only downside – both production and viewing (I think) must be on the Windows platform.

If you cannot examine the demo, here is a screen capture of the demo to give you some insight into what one display format looks like (a small video running in the upper left corner is keyed to changing PowerPoint slides on the right).

Small Producer Image

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Home Alone

I am going to spend most of the summer in Grand Forks by myself. Cindy is in Japan and Kim (youngest daughter) is biking cross country through a program called Bike and Build (Habitat for Humanity).

Both called last night (Father’s Day is today). Kim was staying a church basement somewhere in New Hampshire and Cindy was in Tokyo (her room has full internet access, but she has trouble manipulating the computer because of limited language skills). Both have phone cards – Cindy says her 1260 minute card is worth a little over 100.

Both also have blogs. Cindy’s blog is pretty elaborate – I see this morning that she has incorporated short videos – one of a jellyfish (image below is a jpg). She is using the blog as an open diary of her adventures. This will be pretty cool if she can keep at it.

Jelly Fish

Bike and Build team members take turns generating the entries for their blog. Uploading the entries is a challenge.

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