Archive for May, 2006

Brian managed to swing me an invite to co-host his Social Software session at the BCCampus Spring Workshop on Educational Technologies 2006, which will be held at North Island College in beautiful downtown Courtenay BC. (actually, I've never been to Courtenay/Comox, so am looking forward to seeing the area - I'm flying in on... »

This post was triggered by my need to use a few websites that are stuck in Drupal 4.6, and as such they have HTMLArea installed. For Drupal, there are 3 options to choose from when shopping for a rich text editor to be used in content editing textareas. FCKEditor HTMLArea TinyMCE Of the three, only TinyMCE has an official... »

I took another look at the current dev. build of Flock, and it's definitely getting closer to a final release. The quality is noticably better than previous builds - I don't get the spinning beachball of memory thrashing hell I got before. There is only one nit I have left to pick with Flock. It's... »

My folks handed down their collection of cameras that has grown on one of the shelves in their house. The collection included some really amazing (to me) cameras, which are completely removed from the digital compose-in-viewfinder-automatic-everything cameras that everyone has now. The budding collection includes:Kodak Vigilant Six - 16, with Verichrome FilmZeiss Ikon... »

OK. I think I've just about gotten things closer to "feeling" right for me here. I was just fiddling with the Image and img_assist , and the drupalimage TinyMCE plugin, and finally got them all behaving as expected. Now, I can post an image to the blog while writing an entry, and it... »

I've been using a cheap mini tripod for a couple of years now. It's small enough that it can be attached to the carrying case for my little point-and-shoot, so I've always got it. I don't use it very often (maybe once a month?) but when I need a more stable shot, it sure... »

One of the big reasons I had for making the switch to Drupal is the great "Book" content type. It allows structuring of individual pages into a navigation hierarchy, and generates the "table of contents" and inter/page navigation automatically. I wanted to use it for writing longer articles, and wish I'd had it in... »

ePortfolio Software used in the Faculty of Education Master of Teaching ePortfolio pilot project Pachyderm Patti's sample ePortfolio authored in Pachyderm D'Arcy's Pachyderm ePortfolio Drupal - the software that runs the online community of practice Other ePortfolio Software ... »

Photograph by D'Arcy Norman ePortfolios are both individual and community activities. As individuals document their practice, they perform several internal processes to make sense of what they've done. But, these processes can be amplified if a community of peers (and/or mentors or "experts") is a key part... »

Because ePortfolios are used to document and record an individual's practice, they have an archival nature. They form a "permanent record" of a person's activities and progress. ePortfolios can also have a developmental nature, when the individual (and their peers) review an ePortfolio to create personal development plans, and to adapt future... »