How Twitter Can Save Your Life in a Zombie Apocalypse #ZA

October 16, 2009

Thursday (10/08/09) was an unusually quiet day on the Twitter front, for almost 3 hours I didn’t get a single update from anyone I follow, and I normally get updates from the people I follow once every couple of minutes, so going 3 hours with no posts I naturally began to worry, and I began [...]

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I donated to the victims of Ondoy, here is how you can too

September 29, 2009

I just made a small donation to the Philippine National Red Cross to help the over 300,000 people displaced by Typhoon Ondoy in the Philippines.  If you are interested you can make a donation directly to the Philippine National Red Cross here.
A couple of people who work for Articulate are currently displaced by Typhoon Ondoy, [...]

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Upload and track an Articulate Quizmaker ‘09 Quiz in Dokeos

September 22, 2009

We (at Articulate) are working on developing some Screenr screencasts that show you how you can upload and track Articulate content in various Learning Management Systems.  I got a head start on the project by doing a screencast on tracking Quizmaker in Moodle a couple of weeks back.  In this screencast I am going to show [...]

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Win a Free Customized Recession Cardboard iPhone Case

September 15, 2009

Folks tomorrow (9/16/09) is the last day that you can vote for Winston in the Boulder Humane Society Photo Contest, and I am offering anyone who votes and tweets about it a FREE Customized iPhone case.
The case will have an ink paw print from Winston on the back.  This is the Recession Cardboard iPhone case [...]

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3 easy steps to get your users to press play in Screenr

September 14, 2009

David Anderson makes Screenr screencasts that always look awesome.    His screencast below had over 250 views in just over 24 hours.  If you are looking for advice on how to get people to watch your ENTIRE video, this post won’t cover that.  This post WILL show you 3 easy steps to get viewers to [...]

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A photo of mine has been nominated…help me win

September 9, 2009

This photo I submitted for the Boulder Humane Society Photo Contest was nominated as one of the best three photos in it’s category (Best Digitally Altered/Artistic Image). The photo was taken with my iPhone 3G camera in Estes Park, CO of Winston at the age of 12 weeks.  Winston is a Brussels Griffon, and [...]

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Find, Change, and Install New Moodle Themes

September 4, 2009

Got a question yesterday from Colin asking about the Moodle theme I was using in a couple of the blog posts I have done showing how to use Articulate content in Moodle.  I created this short screencast that shows you how you can change, find, and install new themes for Moodle.

View this tutorial at Screenr
Another [...]

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Upload and track a Quizmaker ‘09 Quiz in Moodle

August 24, 2009

3 1/2 years ago I blogged about uploading an Articulate Quizmaker to Moodle.  It has been one of my most popular and heavily commented on posts.  In this post I wanted to revist that demo.  I used Captivate at the time to create the demo, so I wanted to redo the demo using Screenr, and [...]

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Top 10 tools for learning..ok, just 8

August 20, 2009

The Center for Learning and Performance Technologies is looking for your Top 10 tools for learning.  I am using this post as my submission, and to explain why I selected the tools that I did.

I have these numbered in a list, but really, they are in no particular order.  Why did I not just list [...]

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Resize your embedded Screenr screencasts to fit nicely in a blog

August 20, 2009

So you have made some screencasts and are ready to embed them in your blog, but the problem is your blog layout is so narrow it doesn’t fit nicely when you embed it in your blog.
So what can you do to make your embedded screencasts smaller so they will fit nicely in your narrow blog? [...]

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