We’ve visited the Augusta Heritage Festival held at Davis and Elkins College, Elkins WV, at least once, and we’ve heard a good deal about it from some of the musicians in Fredericksburg. Lynn’ alma mater is D&E and so its been appealing to think about going to the festival for a week. Augusta Heritage Center […]
Tagged augusa, cultural, festival, folklifeIn the final third of the course Organization of Programming Languages, CPSC 401, we discuss Prolog so that students have the opportunity to think about and work with a logic programming-type language. In looking for links for Prolog and comparative ways of programming I came across Rosetta Code, a site that shows implementations of various […]
Tagged comparative programming languages, prolog, rosetta codeI watched this video presentation by Peter Eigen, from TED, and then looked up the site for Transparency International. Inspiring and worth spending some time at the site to learn about dealign with corruption on a global scale. Peter Eigen: How to expose the corrupt | Video on TED.com “”Some of the world’s most baffling […]
Tagged corruption, TED, transparency internationalÀ La Mode « Hideous Sunday One of the greatest examples of interactive media I’ve ever seen came burned onto a CD-ROM bundled with an annual awards issue of ID magazine. Love Disc 95, the work of Paul Kim and Karl Ackermann, former RISD graduates, was a series of stream of consciousness mini games of […]
Tagged karl, karl ackermann, lovedisk, paul kimJob snapshot: Programmer | View from the Cubicle | TechRepublic.com Interview of an IT programmer. Some reasonable information for students who might be interested in being a programmer. (tags: programming it job interview) William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind | Video on TED.com Excelelnt and inspiring talk (tags: ted africa technology video) http://outagemap.dom.com/DomComFlexOutageViewer/index.html Check […]
Tagged inspirational, power outage, programming, TEDVisited bloglines and some blogs today and I came up with a few interesting links. The first is a link to the way Eun-Ha’s video Now and Then is referenced in a course dealing with Flash animation. The second is to a search feature at Harper’s Index, and the third is to the 2010 Edge […]
Tagged edge, eun-ha, flash, harper's index, InternetI’ve never really learned how to touch type, and I feel limited because of it. So I thought I’d try a few lessons. Both of the sites below seem helpful. online free touch typing program | keyboarding tutor | Free Typing Games typing instructions and practice (tags: tutorial online lessons touchtyping typing) Free typing tutor […]
Tagged tutorials, typingI came across two interesting lists recently. The first is Laze’s playlist on last.fm and the second is an equally excellent lsit – Zorba’s Guide to free eBooks. Both promise hours of enjoyment. http://www.last.fm/user/laze laze playlist (tags: playlist laze) Zorba’s Guide to Free Ebooks « Zorba Press Comprehensive guide to free e-books (tags: free directory […]
Tagged ebooks, laze, playlistMain Page – IPL Wiki A wiki for followers/members of ipl-2 (tags: internet web2.0 library wiki community ipl) Future Of Education: The Best 2009 Articles And Reports From MasterNewMedia A collection of articles about where education might be headed. (tags: education technology)
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The Web’s Stories, Embedding Silicon Chips inside Human Cells, Google Chrome Videos
These links may not go too well together, but they are the some of the ones I was getting together for my class, Introduction to Computer Science, the other day. The first is another good TED talk. Jonathan HArris talks about ways to map, view the stories, blog entries on the Web. Very interesting stuff, […]
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