tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40031473117456524612024-03-08T09:16:00.610-08:00CALL for KoreaComputer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) for Korea and beyondDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.comBlogger233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-82612779018951134262010-09-11T23:03:00.000-07:002010-09-11T23:03:05.544-07:00CALL for Korea is going to fade awayI'm going to leave this blog up, but I'm going to copy all of the content and move it to <a href="http://danielcraig.posterous.com/">http://danielcraig.posterous.com</a> for now. The Posterous site is where I have all of my stuff going now, from tech to general education to family life. I'm treating my blogs like I treat Twitter now. No more compartmentalization of my interests (at least not as much). I'm going to through a good deal of personal and professional posts there. <br />
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Of course, I'll always have http://www.danielcraig.com, so I'll try to keep links to my current projects on there, too (though I'm a little lazy when it comes to maintaining that sight too. <br />
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Blogger blogs just don't work for me any more and I have too many to keep track of. Technology rolls on and so shall I :-)Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-65992860562855215742009-11-21T19:47:00.000-08:002009-11-21T19:47:21.803-08:00Locking down your Facebook accountOnline social networks were not really created to protect information. They were built to share as much as possible. This has become problematic for many people who find their information oozing out of their accounts in ways that they didn't anticipate. Most often this is a human to human problem, in other words, gossip. This is never going to be solved by technological means. However, the inadvertent loss of control of ones data can be managed to an extent with privacy tools provided.<br />
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First, I'll give you advice that my father gave me long ago..."Never put it in writing" :-) Maybe a strange thing to say to your young son, but it's served me well over the years. Never record, in any way, things that you wouldn't be ok with the world seeing. However, I do understand that there are things that you would rather not broadcast to the world if you can help it, so modifying privacy settings in your online social network is a good way to address that.<br />
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Below is a quick and dirty text tutorial on locking down your Facebook account. If you do all of the following, your account and information will be as private as possible.....however, your Facebook experience will be quite limited too. That's your choice.<br />
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Regardless, good to see you're here.<br />
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If it's a problem of too much information available to the world, you can set your settings to essentially share nothing. However, you would still be able to send/receive messages (internal email) and comment. Of course, there is nothing stopping your "friends" from tagging you in pictures, notes, and such, but if that's the problem, unfriend them (which, it seems, is what you did before).<br />
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Here's how to go about locking down your account.<br />
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<ol><li>Click on "Settings" in the upper, right of the page.<br />
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<li>Find "Privacy" and click on the "manage" link to the right of it.<br />
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<li>First, you can block someone from even being able to see you in searches. You can do this by Facebook account or by email. If you're having problems with particular people, use this.<br />
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<li>Click on the "Profile" link on the privacy page (the blue link, not the white one across the top). Next to each of the categories, there is a drop-down list. From this list, select "Custom". Each of the categories will give you slightly different options here. Select the most restrictive ones. "Only Friends" is an obvious choice, but some allow you to specify "Only Select Friends" or even "Only me". Additionally, you will have to select which Networks have access, choose "None of my Networks". The networks setting is the biggest privacy hole in Facebook. People often don't realize that their entire network (say, Joliet) has access to their info. Lastly, you can set exceptions for some categories. So, you can specifically add peope who you want to, for example, see photos that are tagged with your name. This is good for specific family and friends who you want to see these things. When you are finished, click "Save Changes"<br />
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<li>Click on the "Contact Information" tab and make the same choices as in #4. I'd suggest being a little freer with your email address and a little more restrictive with phone, address, and so forth. When you're done, click "Save Changes"<br />
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<li>Click on "Privacy" again to get back to the main privacy settings page. Then click on "Search". you can restrict who can see you in a search. In most cases, you probably want to keep this as open as possible, but you may have reasons to restrict it. Below that, however, is a section that describes what people can see when they search for you. I usually suggest leaving these checked: picture and a link to add me as a friend, at a minimum (otherwise people won't be able to find you. Lastly, there is an option to have public search. This means that your Facebook account will show up in a search like Google. Good if you want people to find you, bad if you don't :) When you are finished, click "Save Changes".<br />
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<li>Click on the "Privacy" link again to get back to the privacy setting page. Click on the "News Feed and Wall" link. Uncheck all of these for maximum privacy. This stops, to an extent, your activities from being posting on yours or your friends' news feeds. When you are finished, click "Save Changes"<br />
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<li>Click on the "Privacy" link to get back to the main privacy settings page. Click on the "Applications" link. You can read the info on this page to get a better idea of what this is for, but to change settings, click on the "Settings" tab. The first set of settings essentially tells you that you are sharing your name, networks, and list of friends with applications that you are using in Facebook. The only way to turn this off is to delete those applications (I'll tell you about this later). Do make sure that you aren't sharing anything extra. Uncheck any checkbox that is checked.<br />
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The next setting that you can change is Facebook Connect. This is the program that lets you log into other websites with your Facebook login. It also tracks you to a great degree. Make sure to uncheck that box. It doesn't turn this off, but it does make sure that "friends" don't know what sites you use it on.<br />
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Finally, the next setting is about Beacon. This is Facebook's social advertising platform. Definately check this box. You do not want your network notified when you buy your wife's Christmas present or other, more sensitive things :)<br />
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When you are done, click "Save Changes"<br />
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<li>We're done with the privacy settings, but there's one more place to go to really lock down your account. We need to manage applications. Go to the settings link on the upper, right of the page. You will see a drop-down list of options, click on "Application Settings". On this page, you will see another drop-down list of items that dictate what "Show" in this list. Choose "Authorized" to see the best list of applications. The easiest way to control these is to delete all applications that can be deleted. These have X's on the right side of the listed application. By deleting the applications, then can do nothing on your behalf in Facebook. Of course, you can no longer use them either.<br />
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With the remaining applications, you can adjust some (not many) options by clicking on "Edit Settings". I'd suggest limiting who can see it as much as you see fit. At least, "Only Friends" but even "Only Me" might be a good idea. </li>
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That's all. Your account is locked down as much as possible now. You can always go back and open settings up a little as you become more comfortable or see more of a need to do so.<br />
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Please, add your advice below.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-90025883233703307662009-11-13T07:46:00.001-08:002009-11-13T07:46:17.827-08:00Google Wave - Easy List of Bots and GadgetsThe real power of Google Wave is not in the basic collaboration that it provides, but rather the bots and gadgets that live on the platform. I don't know why, but I couldn't find a nice, easy list that would enable to to quickly add these to my Waves. So, I went through all that I could find and listed them here.<br />
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Please feel free to add more to the comments and I'll add them to the list.<br />
<ol><li>The list of Bots are ones that you have to add to the Wave in order to work.<br />
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<li>The list of Gadgets are two forms. Most are ones that have to be installed. They end in manifest.xml. These have to be installed through the down arrow next to the "New Wave" button. The others (gadget URL) can be added using the green puzzle piece that appears in the toolbar when editing a blip.</li>
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</div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chess Gadget </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(<a href="http://gerculanum.appspot.com/gadgets/com.example.chessgadget.client.ChessGadget.gadget.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://gerculanum.appspot.com/gadgets/com.example.chessgadget.client.ChessGadget.gadget.xml</span></a> ) <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Magnetic Poetry</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (<a href="http://wave-api-dmo.appspot.com/public/fridge.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://wave-api-</span></a><a href="http://wave-api-dmo.appspot.com/public/fridge.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">dmo</span></a><a href="http://wave-api-dmo.appspot.com/public/fridge.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">.appspot.com/public/</span></a><a href="http://wave-api-dmo.appspot.com/public/fridge.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">fridge</span></a><a href="http://wave-api-dmo.appspot.com/public/fridge.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">.xml</span></a> )<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bidding Gadget</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (<a href="http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/bidder.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/bidder.xml</span></a> )<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rating Gadget</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (<a href="http://pesta.appspot.com/gadgets/ratings/ratings.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://pesta.appspot.com/gadgets/ratings/ratings.xml</span></a> )<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Opensocial Templates</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (<a href="http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/wave.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/wave.xml</span></a> )<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Progressy </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(<a href="http://hafstroms.net/wave/progressy/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://</span></a><a href="http://hafstroms.net/wave/progressy/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">hafstroms</span></a><a href="http://hafstroms.net/wave/progressy/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">.net/</span></a><a href="http://hafstroms.net/wave/progressy/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">wave</span></a><a href="http://hafstroms.net/wave/progressy/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">/</span></a><a href="http://hafstroms.net/wave/progressy/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">progressy</span></a><a href="http://hafstroms.net/wave/progressy/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">/manifest.xml</span></a>) Adds a progress bar to the wave that can be used to show how far a projekt or checkpoint has to go. Live public wave<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pick Several </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(<a href="http://www.randomhacks.net/gadgets/pickseveral/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.</span></a><a href="http://www.randomhacks.net/gadgets/pickseveral/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">randomhacks</span></a><a href="http://www.randomhacks.net/gadgets/pickseveral/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">.net/gadgets/</span></a><a href="http://www.randomhacks.net/gadgets/pickseveral/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">pickseveral</span></a><a href="http://www.randomhacks.net/gadgets/pickseveral/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">/manifest.xml</span></a>) Pick one or more choices from a list (aka approval voting).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Voicy </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(<a href="http://wave-gadgets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/voicy/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://wave-gadgets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/</span></a><a href="http://wave-gadgets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/voicy/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">voicy</span></a><a href="http://wave-gadgets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/voicy/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">/manifest.xml</span></a>) A voice recording/messaging/sharing system. A new way to share greetings, thoughts and brainstormings with real voice communication. Shows tabs, flash integration, identifying the current viewer and customizing the gadget accordingly (between Host and non-host, giving the host more options), Shows retrieving participant information (name) dynamically, shows communication via postMessage to/from external page in iframe, use of set/get state to dynamically update everyone's message list in realtime, shows the use of persistent data through gadget's prefs.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mind Map Gadget </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(<a href="http://cactus-wave.appspot.com/mindmap.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://cactus-wave.appspot.com/mindmap.xml</span></a>) A Mindmap gadget which allows for collaborative editing of hierarchical data and ideas, including icons, import and export to freemind, voting and drag & drop.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">MyTweet on a Wave</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (<a href="http://haru1ban-wave.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/twitter/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://haru1ban-wave.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/twitter/manifest.xml</span></a>) A gadget to collaboratively browse twitter streams.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wave Dice Gadget</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (<a href="http://wavedicegadget.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://wavedicegadget.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/manifest.xml</span></a>) Simple dice rolling gadget that supports standard PnP dice types. Full wave support, so other users can see your rolls immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Nimbb Gadget </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(<a href="http://service.nimbb.com/GoogleWave/installer.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://service.nimbb.com/GoogleWave/installer.xml</span></a>) Sample gadget to add webcam video recording to any wave.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">tic-tac-toe</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (gadget URL: <a href="http://tic-tac-toe-for-wave.googlecode.com/files/tic-tac-toe.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://tic-tac-toe-for-wave.googlecode.com/files/tic-tac-toe.xml</span></a>) A pencil-and-paper game for two players, O and X, who take turns marking the spaces in a 3×3 grid.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Google News Gadget</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (gadget URL: <a href="http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/112392185100245511748/newsgadget.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/112392185100245511748/</span></a><a href="http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/112392185100245511748/newsgadget.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">newsgadget</span></a><a href="http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/112392185100245511748/newsgadget.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">.xml</span></a> ) Search and share google news in real time with your friends. You can search in private mode as well.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brainstorming </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(gadget URL: <a href="http://www.madin.jp/gadget/index.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.madin.jp/gadget/index.xml</span></a>) A simple brainstroming tool to collaborate on an idea tree. Participants can add, edit and move nodes.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cards </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(<a href="http://wave-cards.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://wave-cards.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/manifest.xml</span></a>) Play card games in Wave. Almost any game is possible!<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pongy </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(<a href="http://playpongy.appspot.com/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://</span></a><a href="http://playpongy.appspot.com/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">playpongy</span></a><a href="http://playpongy.appspot.com/manifest.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">.appspot.com/manifest.xml</span></a>) is a real-time 2 player Pong game written to run as a Google wave gadget.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Piano Gadget </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(gadget URL: <a href="http://wave-instruments.appspot.com/gadget/piano.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://wave-instruments.appspot.com/gadget/piano.xml</span></a>) Piano in your Wave.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Plus One</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (gadget URL: <a href="http://www.elizabethsgadgets.appspot.com/public/gadget.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://</span></a><a href="http://www.elizabethsgadgets.appspot.com/public/gadget.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www</span></a><a href="http://www.elizabethsgadgets.appspot.com/public/gadget.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">.elizabethsgadgets.appspot.com/public/gadget.xml</span></a>) Add this gadget to a blip to allow viewers to vote "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" on it. The gadget keeps track of the number of votes for each.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wave Blogadget</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (gadget URL: <a href="http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/116844733254275818014/blogadget.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/116844733254275818014/blogadget.xml</span></a>) Use this configurable gadget to easily embed any wave into any site that supports gadgets.* (i.e. iGoogle, Orkut, Ning, Blogger, or any FriendConnect enabled site). Simpler than using the Embed API, and offers configuration options.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Canvas </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(gadget URL: <a href="http://ichikawa-public.appspot.com/wave/canvas/canvas.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://ichikawa-public.appspot.com/wave/canvas/canvas.xml</span></a>) You can draw picture and other people can see it and modify it in real time.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Coin Toss Gadget </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(<a href="http://cointoss.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cointoss.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://cointoss.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cointoss.xml</span></a>) Use the Coin Toss gadget to decide who buys the next lunch or who should bring donuts to the next meeting. Heads you win, tails you lose. 1. Fill out a title for you "contest" 2. Select who will be "heads" and who will be "tails" 3. Click "Flip Coin" and let the Coin Toss Gadget determine the winner.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">HTML Gadget</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (gadget URL: <a href="http://wave-ide.appspot.com/html.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://</span></a><a href="http://wave-ide.appspot.com/html.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">wav</span></a><a href="http://wave-ide.appspot.com/html.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">e-</span></a><a href="http://wave-ide.appspot.com/html.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">ide</span></a><a href="http://wave-ide.appspot.com/html.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">.appspot.com/html.xml</span></a>) Allows you to add any piece of HTML inside a wave.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Napkin </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(gadget URL: <a href="http://my-wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/NapkinGadget.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://</span></a><a href="http://my-wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/NapkinGadget.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">my-</span></a><a href="http://my-wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/NapkinGadget.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/</span></a><a href="http://my-wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/NapkinGadget.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">NapkinGadget</span></a><a href="http://my-wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/NapkinGadget.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">.xml</span></a>) Adds the ability to do quick "back of a napkin" sketches to a wave - collaborative doodling!<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Click Me</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (gadget URL: <a href="http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/hellowave.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/</span></a><a href="http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/hellowave.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">hellowave</span></a><a href="http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/hellowave.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">.xml</span></a>) Shows a button with a counter. Each time the button gets clicked, the counter is incremented by one. </span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">BOTS<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
</div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The <b>Wikify bot</b> (wikifier@appspot.com) adds links to and definitions from Wikipedia to your waves for a given topic. When you add Wikify to a wave, it provides instructions on how to add a link to Wikipedia for a topic, or a definition of that topic. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The <b>CleanTXT bot </b>(cleantxt@appspot.com) is an automated janitor for a wave, especially helpful on active waves with lots of participants, like public waves. When CleanTXT is participating in a Wave, it automatically deletes empty blips, reduces repetitive blank lines in a blip, automatically corrects common typos (such as a mistyped "teh" for "the"), and inserts missing spaces after commas and semi-colons.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Polly the Pollster</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (polly-wave@appspot.com) lets you create multiple choice polls with custom questions and answers<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The <b>TwitUsernames bot</b> (twitusernames@appspot.com) inspects the content of any wave it's participating in, and converts any word that starts with an @ sign to a user link to Twitter. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The <b>XMPP Lite bot </b>(wave-xmpp@appspot.com) sends you notifications of a wave's changes via XMPP (an instant messenger protocol). <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Madoqua Wave Bot </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(blog-bot@appspot.com). When added to a wave, this bot provides customizable JavaScript code you can copy and paste into any web page to embed a wave.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The <b>Emoticony bot </b>(emoticonbot@appspot.com) converts textual smiley faces into smiley face images.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To embed an image that's already online, add the <b>Inbeddable bot </b>(inbeddable@appspot.com) to your wave, and simply add the URL of the image to it. When you click Done (or press Shift+Enter), Inbeddable will turn the link image into the image itself<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The <b>Easy Public bot</b> makes waves public without public@a.gwave.com's disappearing act. Add it to any wave to give everyone on the Wave server access to your wave. What Easy Public does is add the public@a.gwave.com contact to your wave for you.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Eliza the Robot Shrink</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (elizarobot@appspot.com) is a programmed therapist who chats with you in Wave. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The<b> Swedish Chef bot </b>(borkforceone@appspot.com) inserts "Bork bork bork!" into your waves. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Flippy </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(flippy-wave@appspot.com) flips the text of your waves upside down—great for some April Fool's Day fun.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Grauniady</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (grauniady@appspot.com) searches the latest items from The Guardian for a given phrase.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cartoony</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (cartoonybot@appspot.com, <a href="http://google-wave-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/extensions/robots/java/cartoony/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Java source code</span></a>) - Should replace the text of every submitted blip with a cartoon balloon that contains the text instead.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yasr</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (wave-api-dmo@appspot.com, <a href="http://google-wave-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/extensions/robots/python/yasr/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Python source code</span></a>) - It replaces emoticons in the wave with smiley images.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Complety</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (wave-complete@appspot.com, <a href="http://google-wave-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/extensions/robots/python/complety/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Python source code</span></a>) - Replaces “???” in a blip with a suggested word.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bloggy </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(blog-wave@appspot.com ) adds wave to blog.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Stocky </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(stocky-wave@appspot.com) automatically detects stock symbols from a wave and updates it with the live stock price.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">mywaveid </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(mywaveid@appspot.com ) adds wave id to the wave. not sure what a wave id is.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Craig's List Search</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (craigslist-searchy@appspot.com ). Search Craig's list.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Messy the Wave Robot</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (messy-robot@appspot.com ) integrates with the <a href="https://labs.ericsson.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Ericsson Labs</span></a> API "SMS Send & Receive" and makes it possible to have a 2-way communication via SMS in a Wave. After entering a special syntax in a Wave, a participant can trigger an SMS delivery to another user, e.g. to someone not currently online. The user that receives the SMS can reply to it and the reply gets posted to the conversation in the Wave.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Norton SafeWave</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (nortonwave@appspot.com) This robot will validate any links typed into a wave conversation. The links are validated against the Norton SafeWeb API (<a href="http://safeweb.norton.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://safeweb.norton.com</span></a>). This will keep waves safe from phishing links, malware sites and infected sites.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Translabot </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(translabot@appspot.com ) Translation bot.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Musical Wave</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (dr-music@appspot.com) Dr. Music will tell you: 1. What a <a href="http://last.fm/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">last.fm</span></a> user is listening to you (includes you) 2. Music compatibility between people 3. Similar artists to an artist you like All of this with pictures to make it colorful. Once you add Dr. Music he'll tell you how you can get him to do things for you.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ego Robot</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (kimalvetti@appspot.com) A simple, but entertaining robot designed to stroke your ego. It will reply to all your blips with 'praise phrases' like "You're Very Talented".<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Row of Four</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (rowoffour@appspot.com) Connect Four bot<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Drubot </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(ethos-drubot@appspot.com) Post Wave to Drupal.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Notify </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(wave-email-notifications@appspot.com) Google Wave Email Notifications it's a wave robot that sends an email to the participants of a wave whenever the wave is updated.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Tagdef </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(tagdef@appspot.com) This wave looks for #hashtags in your wave/blips, and uses the API at <a href="http://tagdef.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://tagdef.com</span></a> to look up definitions for these tags. It then adds a reply to the wave with the definitions.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Tuxaios </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(tuxaios@appspot.com) is a dice rolling robot for Google Wave written in Python.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Skimmy </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(wave-skimmy@appspot.com) change text to emoticon.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">WordPress Bot</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (wp-bot@appspot.com) add wave to WordPress.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Starify </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(starifybot@appspot.com) allows you to star waves and load the list of starred waves later. Visit <a href="http://wave.to/robots/starifybot/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://wave.to/robots/starifybot/</span></a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rssybot </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(rssybot@appspot.com) lets your watch RSS feeds from Google Wave. Just add it to a wave, enter the link to the RSS feed you want to subscribe to and wait for new posts to appear in your inbox as unread blips. For more information, visit: <a href="http://www.wave.to/robots/rssybot/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.wave.to/robots/rssybot/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Treeify </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(treeify@appspot.com) Multi-wave robots are agents that in some way operate on more than one wave. Treeify is a multi-wave robot which lets you connect waves into tree structures. With it you can build and navigate trees of waves.<a href="http://www.wave.to/robots/rssybot/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wave Live Messenger </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(wavelivemessenger@appspot.com) allows you to log in to your Windows Live Messenger account from within Google Wave and have conversations with your messenger contacts right from within a wave. Even if you leave the wave and start reading a different wave, Wave Live Messenger will keep your conversation up to date so you can return to it at any time and continue chatting. For more details, visit: <a href="http://www.wave.to/robots/wavelivemessenger" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.wave.to/robots/wavelivemessenger</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Google Calendar Robot</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (calendar-robot@appspot.com) Robot recognizes date pattern in form YYYY-MM-DD ('.' or '/' can be used for separator also) and updates it to link to add an event to user's Google Calendar.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wave Alpha</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (py-robot@appspot.com) Wolfram-Alpha query.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Buddy as Service (buddyasaservice@appspot.com) Buddy as a Service is a wave robot, using Yahoo YQL API, Google API and other services to do searches and some other stuff (translations, weather forecast, etc) for you.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Regexey </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(regexey@appspot.com) This is a simple find-and-replace robot. After you add it, it will display an introduction message. Then any blip you create should be of the format: seach string replace string text to process It will search for the "search string" in the "text to process" and replace it with the "replace string." Then it will append the results in a reply blip.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Graphy </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(graph-wave@appspot.com) extends Google Wave with the ability to collaborate on flow charts and graphs. Graphy searches for a marker (#!dot) at the top of a blip, and when found, adds a gadget to the bottom of the blip which presents an image of the graph. Graph edges are expressed with simple statements like a -> b<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Reddit </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(wave-reddit@appspot.com) This robot is able to post the top articles from <a href="http://reddit.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Reddit.com</span></a> and any sub-reddits. Simply reply to a wave for which it has been invited with the word "reddit" followed by a colon ":" and then the name of the subreddit (or "homepage"). You can specify the number of articles to return by appending an additional colon ":" followed by the number of articles. Examples: reddit:wave, reddit:pics:15, reddit:technology<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Posterous </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(posterous@appspot.com) Post wave to Posterous.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Blogbot </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(blogbot-wave@appspot.com) Organizes related waves (blog posts, FAQ, etc) in a central Table of Contents wave.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Magic 8 Ball</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (magic-8ball@appspot.com) Sees and Knows All. Just add this Robot to your wave and ask the magic 8-ball any question and receive your answer.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Piratify Robot</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (piratify@appspot.com) Turns whatever you type into "Pirate Speak" .. Arrrr.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Google Wave Drupal Integration</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (drupalembedbot@appspot.com) A Drupal module and corresponding robot that enabled the embedding of Google Waves embedding, robot.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">BotURL </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(boturl@appspot.com) Replaces FULL URLs with hyperlinks whose title are the domain names. Replaces TinyURLs/ <a href="http://bit.ly/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">bit.ly</span></a> URLs with original URL domain names and links them to the original URLs.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Censorship Robot</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (censorshiprobot@appspot.com) Google wave robot, that filters specific words from dictionary and then replaces with random chars. The dictionary can be updated from any blip with two commands: censor:someword - add someword to dictionary uncensor:someword - remove someword from dictionary<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Converts-y</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (convertsy@appspot.com) Convert units from one type to another. 1.23km (?miles) -> 1.23km (0.76 miles).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Embeddy </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(embeddy@appspot.com) Embeds Wave into Web.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Embedded Search Results</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (wave-sandbox@appspot.com) This simple robot allows you to quickly and easily perform a search and have the results embedded in your Wave. Currently supports Google & Flickr Searches. Support for more search providers will be coming soon. For full information visit <a href="http://wave-sandbox.appspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://wave-sandbox.appspot.com</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Anti-swear Bot</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (invectivedeleted@appspot.com) A simple bot in Python that stops people being rude on a wave it is added to. Note: The rude words have been blocked out in the screenshot to avoid offending anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Complety </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(wave-complete@appspot.com) Uses the Google Search API to replace "???" in a blip (after it's submitted) with a suggested word. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-848854558470192052009-11-04T20:58:00.000-08:002009-11-04T21:02:10.777-08:00Social Isolation and New Technology: How the internet and mobile phones impact Americans’ social networks<a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/%7E/media//Files/Reports/2009/PIP_Tech_and_Social_Isolation.pdf">Social Isolation and New Technology: How the internet and mobile phones impact Americans’ social networks</a><br />
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Below are points offered in the executive summary. It's good to get this information and add it to the pile.<br />
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This Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey is the first ever that examines the role of the internet and cell phones in the way that people interact with those in their core social network. Our key findings challenge previous research and commonplace fears about the harmful social impact of new technology:<br />
<ul><li>Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. We find that the extent of social isolation has hardly changed since 1985, contrary to concerns that the prevalence of severe isolation has tripled since then. Only 6% of the adult population has no one with whom they can discuss important matters or who they consider to be “especially significant” in their life.</li>
<li>We confirm that Americans’ discussion networks have shrunk by about a third since 1985 and have become less diverse because they contain fewer non‐family members. However, contrary to the considerable concern that people’s use of the internet and cell phones could be tied to the trend towards smaller networks, we find that ownership of a mobile phone and participation in a variety of internet activities are associated with larger and more diverse core discussion networks. (Discussion networks are a key measure of people’s most important social ties.)</li>
<li>Social media activities are associated with several beneficial social activities, including having discussion networks that are more likely to contain people from different backgrounds. For instance, frequent internet users, and those who maintain a blog are much more likely to confide in someone who is of another race. Those who share photos online are more likely to report that they discuss important matters with someone who is a member of another political party.</li>
<li>When we examine people’s full personal network – their strong ties and weak ties – internet use in general and use of social networking services such as Facebook in particular are associated with having a more diverse social network. Again, this flies against the notion that technology pulls people away from social engagement.</li>
<li>Some have worried that internet use limits people’s participation in their local communities, but we find that most internet activities have little or a positive relationship to local activity. For instance, internet users are as likely as anyone else to visit with their neighbors in person. Cell phone users, those who use the internet frequently at work, and bloggers are more likely to belong to a local voluntary association, such as a youth group or a charitable organization. However, we find someevidence that use of social networking services (e.g., Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn) substitutes for some neighborhood involvement.</li>
<li>Internet use does not pull people away from public places. Rather, it is associated with engagement in places such as parks, cafes, and restaurants, the kinds of locales where research shows that people are likely to encounter a wider array of people and diverse points of view. Indeed, internet access has become a common component of people’s experiences within many public spaces. For instance, of those Americans who have been in a library within the past month, 38% logged on to the internet while they were there, 18% have done so in a café or coffee shop.</li>
<li>People’s mobile phone use outpaces their use of landline phones as a primary method of staying in touch with their closest family and friends, but face‐to‐face contact still trumps all other methods. On average in a typical year, people have in‐person contact with their core network ties on about 210 days; they have mobile‐phone contact on 195 days of the year; landline phone contact on 125 days; text‐messaging contact on the mobile phone 125 days; email contact 72 days; instant messaging contact 55 days; contact via social networking websites 39 days; and contact via letters or cards on 8 days.</li>
<li>Challenging the assumption that internet use encourages social contact across vast distances, we find that many internet technologies are used as much for local contact as they are for distant communication.</li>
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<a href="http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcgwqckw_8174ftfxpxs">Here is the handout</a>. This is much better for accessing all the links<br />
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Here is the presentation (do full screen)<br />
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BubblePLY enables you to put text annotations, subtitles, and even images and video on top of the video. This is a great tool for teachers. Imagine the benefits of being able to annotate instructional videos.<br />
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Here is a sample (though, not good one) from my personal video collection:<br />
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[edit - The embed doesn't seem to work, which is unfortunate. I hope that they fix this. Here is the <a href="http://www.bubbleply.com/player.aspx?pid=63620e06-dfb7-46b9-8393-ca76c2f04ba6">link to the video</a>.]<br />
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Here is a screencast of the process done with <a href="http://www.screenr.com/">Screenr</a>. You'll notice the audio isn't very good. I think that's my microphone (and/or audio card). Both BubblePLY and Screenr is a great job, though.<br />
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<object classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000' codebase='http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,115,0' width='560' height='345'><param name='movie' value='http://screenr.com/Content/assets/screenr_0817090731.swf' /><param name='flashvars' value='i=23264' /><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true' /><embed src='http://screenr.com/Content/assets/screenr_0817090731.swf' flashvars='i=23264' allowFullScreen='true' width='560' height='345' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer'></embed></object>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-14049628926926135042009-11-03T04:21:00.000-08:002009-11-03T04:21:39.929-08:00TubeChop<a href="http://www.tubechop.com/">TubeChop</a> is a great YouTube editing tool. No need to register or log in.<br />
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As a teacher, I often just want to show a piece, or a series of pieces of a video to a class. TubeChop makes this easy. Just grab the URL for the YouTube video you want to edit (or do a keyword search from the YouChop site) and paste it into the text box on the YouChop homepage. YouChop with then load it into the editor and you can choose a range of time (the portion of the video you want to watch) using a slider for start and finish. Then "Chop It".<br />
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The site will them give you a link and embed code that you can use to disseminate the finished product. Very easy and very convenient.<br />
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Give it a try. Here is the resulting 10 second piece that I cut from a 5 minute video<br />
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<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=f5RekixAMoM&start=41&end=52&cid=34112"></param><embed src="http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=f5RekixAMoM&start=41&end=52&cid=34112" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-80063853883465212402009-10-22T08:15:00.000-07:002009-10-22T08:15:59.669-07:00Google Books - Exporting Citations<a href="http://books.google.com/">Google Books </a>is becoming one of the most useful tools for researchers out there. Pair this with Google Scholar and, if you are lucky, network authentication from a university that has deals with the publishing companies and article databases and many of us can avoid the physical library entirely (especially if you include document delivery service and interlibrary loan). This is fantastic news for scholars living away from their university, namely distance education students and master's/doctoral students finishing up their theses/dissertations (me, for instance).<br /><br />Anyway, with more and more searches leading to Google Books I was going nuts trying to figure out how to export citations. I knew it had to be there. I don't know why this was so difficult to figure out or why Google doesn't directly have it on their page (not really geared toward scholars). Here is what I finally found (thanks <a href="http://lib.nmsu.edu/resources/endnote.shtml">New Mexico State University Library</a> for the tip)<br /><br />Once you find a book in Google Books this is what you do.<br /><ol><li>On the left side, under the "Get this book" category, click on the second to last link, "Find in a library"<br /></li><li>Clicking on "Find a library" opens the book's information page on <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/">World Cat</a>.<br /></li><li>On the upper right, click on "Cite/Export"</li><li>In the window that opens, you can choose to copy a citation (cool function) or export.</li><li>Click on the export option that best works for you, "RefWorks" or "EndNote"</li></ol>Of course, this doesn't make the process grabbing citations for edited chapters, but I guess they can't do all the work for us, can they?<br /><ol><br /></ol>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-13181627274156828712009-10-13T21:20:00.000-07:002009-10-13T21:20:11.826-07:00Document Management / Knowledge Management in Small Departments with Limited FundsI have been so focused on document sharing (including: text, audio, video, etc) over the last 5 or so years, I've forgotten how difficult enterprise-type document management can be. <br />
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There are no lack of resources for document sharing (even the text kind). <a href="http://www.scribd.com">Scribd </a>is one of the best. However, when it comes to a product that stores (all sorts of files), organizes (both keywords and indexed search), keep version histories, and provides a closed, shared workspace for group collaboration is a tough find. Oh yeah, did I mention that I can't afford enterprise licensing for a small English language education department? The options are truly limited and frustrating in this case.<br />
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I don't see that the larger, opensource Content Management Systems (CMSs) do this. Drupal, Joomla, and the like are focused on structured organization of content, but not large scale document repositories. If I'm wrong, please comment below. I'd appreciate the help.<br />
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Then I started looking toward knowledge management (KM) systems. There are essentially two kinds: (1) is post-centric and (2) document-centric. I'm looking for the latter and it wasn't easy. Post-centric could really be done in any CMS, but document-centric views are hard to come by. In this area, I'm going to try <a href="http://www.knowledgetree.com">KnowledgeTree</a>. It's paired-down community build is free and looks pretty good. Of course, the coolest features are enterprise and expensive :) It looks like it has everything that I need as well as much that I don't (document routing, check-in/check-out, etc).<br />
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Another service, Alfresco Share (http://www.alfresco.com), is an opensource project (with commercial supported version) that does a pretty good job with documents. It is not necessarily a KM application, but rather a online collaborative workspace. Unfortunately, I think that it's overly difficult, which may be it's kiss of death. IU isn't very good; therefore, it times a long time to learn and a longer time to internalize the functionalities. It took me forever to find a document in a folder of less than 30 files. All I wanted to do was to find the most recent and there was no easy way to do it (fail). However, I've since learned to search for them, which makes it much easier.<br />
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Really, and I'll be struck dead for this by Microsoft-haters, MS SharePoint is the best I've seen for this. It is really document-centric, which is exactly what I need for this project. It's free, too (if enterprise is already using Server 2003 or beyond). Problem is that few people know how to administer it and I don't think that anybody in my current organization will do take on that chore. The drawbacks? It's Microsoft and all that entails. It can be overly difficult to accomplish tasks, user management is difficult (and somewhat locked down), and it can be really slow. Oh, yeah. And it requires Internet Explorer for full functionality. Again, I'd love to hear other opinions on SharePoint. My experience with it was over 4 years ago and things tend to change quickly.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-57969935429897846082009-05-19T18:26:00.000-07:002009-05-19T18:28:46.125-07:00Social promotion and the direction of schoolsThe following was a response to a comment on my posting about <a href="http://blog.danielcraig.com/2009/03/obama-lauds-koreas-education-of.html">Ombama's education agenda</a> (at the time of publication) on my Seouldaddy blog. I'm cross posting here due to the topic. Given the length (it wouldn't completely publish in the comments), I thought that I would just make it a post.<br /><br />It reads a lot like a comment. The organization could use a lot of work, but this isn't a paper now, is it? :)<br /><br />The original comment was criticizing social promotion (age-based grouping) in schools.<br /><br />I agree that age-based tracking is the wrong approach. The justification is that students who are in classes with younger OR older students have affective issues. This is certainly possible (and even likely), but I feel that the greater good will be served by ability-based tracking. This is also an issue of socialization. When this becomes the norm, those affective issues with fade to a large extent. <br /><br />Of course, we could just do nothing, just stay the course. We can continue to sail straight into the abyss :)<br /><br />I'm not one of those people who scream 21ST CENTURY SKILLS down the halls of the schools. I don't really believe that 21st century skills are fundamentally different than 20th century skills. The tools are certainly different, but the skills of critical thinking are the same now as they always have been. The greatest difference is the ability to filter out all the junk. However, I do believe that 21st century schools should/will be significantly different than 20th century schools. This view comes from the landscape of changing technologies, societal needs, and global competition/resources.<br /><br />Changing technologies enable, and even promote, decentralized learning. 20th century schools were about aggregation of staff, resources, and students. This model was based on logistical realities of the time. Resources had to be localized in order to interact with them. Great teachers in Paris couldn't serve students in rural Illinois. Schools, therefore, had to do their best to bring the mountain to Muhammad. <br /><br />The costs and skills necessary to do this required increasing amounts of money and education's version of mergers and acquisitions. Districts (School Corporations) grew increasingly larger and more complex to manage these items and issues. At this point, we are seeing the fallout from this model. Districts are finding that they cannot continue to fund everything that they need to do to keep going. These massive organizations are finding that they are top-heavy, but there is nothing that they can to to solve this. It is the natural progression of the business model. You can restructure the business as much as you want, but aside from completely systemic change, the business will never recover. <br /><br />21st century schools will be about accessing the widely distributed knowledge and abilities of the global populace. Information is no longer scarce and, thus, schools are no longer the owners of that information. Schools will be more about decentralizing education, thus localizing education. This localization, however, comes in the context of access to global information and interaction. <br /><br />So, what does a 21st Century school look like? I don't know. Why don't you tell me. <br /><br />My vision would be a flexible space that is both virtual and real. The "classroom" would cease to be a room and more of a concept where people gather to share information. Classes in this view are more about collections of diverse lessons, tasks, projects, and so forth. The class then becomes an aggregation of activities than address standards as well as steps to achieving short and long-term goals.<br /><br />The greatest change, though, must be the change in social expectations of what education is. For instance, standardized assessment and social promotion must die. As long as these exist, the above changes can never succeed. These are the tail wagging the dog. Standardized assessment is not inherently problematic. The implementation is the problem. Standardized assessment encourages educational systems to strive for improvements on test performance. Therefore, you get test effect on curriculum. When this occurs, the freedom of exploration necessary in my vision is not possible. <br /><br />As for social promotion (age grouping), this approach assumes that learners benefit most from learning with their age grouped peers. This is certainly possible in my vision and could even be implemented in some ways, such as "homerooms" or classes that focus on making sense of the learners' places in society. These kinds of age-based striations could be beneficial for establishing a sense of community and for socializing students (still a role for schools). Aside from these, strict, curriculum-wide age-based grouping stifles flexible learning initiatives by effectively requiring that age, not ability/interest/goals/etc drive grouping.<br /><br />This is much more than I intended to write and the organization is terrible as it is largely stream of consciousness, but my thoughts (in a rudimentary form) on the direction of education are here. Let me know what you think.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-605170950311826142009-03-21T21:49:00.000-07:002009-03-21T21:49:08.699-07:00Online Colleges Drawing Foreign Students<a href="http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/03/123_41653.html">Online Colleges Drawing Foreign Students</a><br /><br />Great potential avenue for revenue generation in Korea. Take a country with more MA's and PhDs than academic work and deploy them in international distance education. The amount of training to transition to online teaching would be significant, but this is an area of potential growth.<br /><br />Start with areas unique or, at least central to, Korea such as Korean language and culture, (East) Asian studies, and so forth and then add other programs in technology, sciences, and even humanities. I know many of you with experience in the Korean Academy will scoff, but this does have huge potential if done right.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-20770905131848155052009-03-10T19:02:00.000-07:002009-03-10T19:02:20.609-07:00These Lectures Are Gone in 60 Seconds - Chronicle.com<a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i26/26a00102.htm">These Lectures Are Gone in 60 Seconds - Chronicle.com</a><br /><br />I originally thought that this concept of "micro-lectures" was just a rebranding of mini-lectures. In other words, short, pointed, lectures that focus a single topic quickly. This isn't the case. It is about boiling down a long class lecture into a couple minutes. <br /><br />I'd say that's a great idea. If you can do something as well in less time, then do it. The problem is, I doubt this is the case. What people are going to do is boil down the lecture into keywords and give some links for students to follow. I don't necessarily think that this is bad, if done well, but seeing how elearning has developed over the years I don't see this being done well by most teachers. <br /><br />I will say, though, that this is aimed on online/blended classes. For these, I think it is a great idea. I know that I can't watch an online lecture for 20 minutes without checking my email, getting a snack, and maybe even watching a little TV. Short, focused lectures paired with relevant resources and guided discussion seems like a darn good class format to me.<br /><br />I'll agree, though, that there are limitations, but I think that they are fewer than suggested in the article. The only exception for me is in situations when a good narrative is required and/or when I can get the information quicker from a lecture than from the resources.<br /><br />That being said, I think that I am going to experiment with my own version next fall in my writing classes. Having a library of lectures could really come in handy when trying to individualize instruction for mixed-ability classes as I always have.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-75820075131548137012009-02-22T03:03:00.000-08:002009-02-22T03:03:52.259-08:00teachingwithted / Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity<a href="http://teachingwithted.pbwiki.com/Sir-Ken-Robinson:-Do-Schools-Kill-Creativity">teachingwithted / Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity</a><br /><br />This is a great site that has been started to help teachers use TED videos with their classes. I think that this is a great idea. I've used TED videos off and on for a while, but I usually only use part of them as I'm afraid my (non-credit students particularly) won't take the time to watch the whole video. However, I think that I'm going to begin asking them to watch these for homework.<br /><br />The video below was an extra piece added to this suggested lesson. It's a video, but the lyrics are much more important than the the pictures. Have a listen and see if you really understand its meaning.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v_AvXnBv8OI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v_AvXnBv8OI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-2658315716987762612009-02-18T17:29:00.000-08:002009-02-18T17:29:53.258-08:00Nov 23, 2007 - China Leads the US in Digital Self-Expression<a href="http://iac.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1455">Nov 23, 2007 - China Leads the US in Digital Self-Expression</a><br /><br />I wonder how Koreans would be represented in this study? When talking about teens, I dare say that they might be closer to the Chinese than the Americans. <br /><br />I'm also going to guess that these numbers have changed substantially in the US. The use of social networks has exploded in just the last couple years.<br /><br />However, the question here might be culturally biased, "I live some of my life online." I would guess that most Americans would say that I spend time online, but it's not my life. This is a subtle difference, but one that could certainly skew the results. If the questions asked simply how much time was spent online, the answers would be very different.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-87830034061355920062009-02-17T20:49:00.000-08:002009-02-17T20:49:59.202-08:00Web 2.0 Tools for Effective Teaching ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes<a href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=47775">Web 2.0 Tools for Effective Teaching ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes</a><br /><br />Great list of links to presentations from (not by) Stephen Downes. As the Web 2.0 mantra fades, it is more important than ever to remember that the "technology" of Web 2.0 has never meant as much as the philosophy behind it. I think that most of these presentations really get that...even those promoting technologies.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-58022513808080639632009-01-30T06:24:00.000-08:002009-01-30T06:24:06.092-08:00Medieval Help-Desk<a href="http://education.change.org/blog/view/lol_video_satire_medieval_help-desk_or_why_books_shouldnt_replace_scrolls">Education - Change.org: LOL Video Satire: "Medieval Help-Desk" (or, "Why Books Shouldn't Replace Scrolls")</a><br /><br />You have to appreciate this if you've even done tech support or simply helped someone with their computer who was totally clueless.<br /><br />I always have to remind people that technology doesn't mean computers, even books are technology.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xFAWR6hzZek&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xFAWR6hzZek&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-78424333964037116732009-01-18T21:58:00.000-08:002009-01-18T21:58:55.503-08:00Be Careful What You Post | The Home of Peter Shankman - Shankman.com<a href="http://shankman.com/be-careful-what-you-post/">Be Careful What You Post | The Home of Peter Shankman - Shankman.com</a><br /><br />Great example of what gave rise to the old wisdom to say something nice or nothing at all. Of course, this isn't always the best way to address problems, but still something to keep in mind. Otherwise, you may find yourself out of a job, a friend, or an opportunity. Just remember, whatever you write is out there for the world (whether on the computer or on a post-it). If it is recorded, it better represent you in the best way possible. <br /><br />Why does this belong on a CALL blog? Simple. Because we all have to learn and teach our students this very fact. There are great benefits to social media, but there are also great potential drawbacks. We all get upset and we are tempted to write what we feel. Go with that, but, at the same time, put on your politician hat and say it in the nicest way possible.<br /><br />My Grandfather had a sign on his bathroom wall that I'll never forget, titled, "Irish Diplomacy. The ability to tell a man to go to hell and have him look forward to the trip."<br /><br />Though funny, it is a great way to approach managing your social identity. You can tell people to go to hell, but do it in ways that are fair, balanced, supportable, and, most importantly, rely on rational, rather than emotional, logic.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-69282519673995039522009-01-06T21:07:00.000-08:002009-01-06T21:07:29.333-08:00Brain Science Podcast<a href="http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brain Science Podcast</span></a><br /><br />This is a fantastic podcast that will change the ways in which you think about many issues including: physiology, learning, cognition, language, and much more.<br /><br />In addition to podcasts, there are discussions, transcripts (for some episodes), and blog postings. I can't say enough good about this podcast. It has really renewed my interested not only in brain science, but in getting back to my (applied)linguistics roots and refreshing, as well as building, my knowledge-base in that area.<br /><br />The only negative is that you'll have to find about an hour when you doing nothing else. This is not the sort of material that you can multitask with (also discussed in one episode).Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-67638611594017116752008-12-20T02:22:00.000-08:002008-12-20T02:22:36.551-08:00TravelinEdMan: 10 Tests Phases or Requirements for Online Instructors: Do U Qualify?<a href="http://travelinedman.blogspot.com/2008/12/10-tests-phases-or-requirements-for.html">TravelinEdMan: 10 Tests Phases or Requirements for Online Instructors: Do U Qualify?</a><br /><br />Congrats to Curt on a very funny post (from someone who has taught those courses).<br /><br />He gives a list of 10 qualifications that qualified online instructors should be able to pass. I particularly like #7. I think that I've had some of these test-takers in my classes.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-53466741341396176192008-12-20T02:09:00.000-08:002008-12-20T02:09:45.010-08:00Future of the Internet 3<a href="http://pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_FutureInternet3.pdf">Future of the Internet 3</a><br /><br />Another futures report. <br /><br />One of the first ideas is that the mobile phone will be the main, if not only, access to the Internet for most people. This is one of those duh! forecasts in many ways. There are problems with this type of prediction: (1) the mobile phone will likely be unidentifiable as a mobile phone by 2020 (just think what it looked like in 1996); and (2) our phones now are hardly only phones, they are computers, media players, cameras, video recorders, calendars, messaging systems, gaming systems, and more. For these reasons, saying that mobile phones will be the primary access device for Internet use is both true and false. It's true that we will likely access the Internet from small, portable devices, but to say that these are "mobile phones is just silly.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-71876399919983531132008-12-07T08:59:00.000-08:002008-12-09T22:26:17.131-08:00ALAK 2008, Seoul National University<p>Today was a busy day.  I participated in a rather long CALL Fair and gave a paper presentation.  I think that the CALL Fair went well, but the paper....not so much :)  However, I'll post some of the materials here just in case you'd like to take a look.</p> <p><strong>CALL Fair</strong></p> <p>My CALL Fair presentation was titled, "Online social networks for specialized language learning environments."  It was mainly focused on using Ning to quickly and easily set up an online social network and demonstrating the functions built into Ning sites.  I also spent a little time (more with some than others) discussing other options.</p> <p>Here is the <a href="http://danielcraig.com/publicfolder/Proposal%20-%20using%20Ning%20to%20build%20learning%20communities.doc">proposal</a> (.doc)</p> <p>Here is the presentation that I put together, but didn't really use.  </p> <div id="__ss_826423" style="width: 425px; text-align: left"><a title="Online Social Networks For Specialized Language Learning Communities" style="display: block; margin: 12px 0px 3px; font: 14px helvetica,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: underline" href="http://www.slideshare.net/danielcraig/online-social-networks-for-specialized-language-learning-communities-presentation?type=powerpoint">Online Social Networks For Specialized Language Learning Communities</a><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=online-social-networks-for-specialized-language-learning-communities-1228667435648382-8&stripped_title=online-social-networks-for-specialized-language-learning-communities-presentation" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" /> <div style="font-size: 11px; padding-top: 2px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px">View SlideShare <a title="View Online Social Networks For Specialized Language Learning Communities on SlideShare" style="text-decoration: underline" href="http://www.slideshare.net/danielcraig/online-social-networks-for-specialized-language-learning-communities-presentation?type=powerpoint">presentation</a> or <a style="text-decoration: underline" href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?type=powerpoint">Upload</a> your own. (tags: <a style="text-decoration: underline" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/alak">alak</a> <a style="text-decoration: underline" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/korea">korea</a>)</div> </div> <p>I chose, instead, to take them directly to sites to see for themselves.  I put together a quick and dirty site at <a href="http://alak2008testnetwork.ning.com/">ALAK 2008 Test Site</a> that you are free to play with.  I'll leave it up for a least a little while.  I also showed them my class Ning site, which is closed to the public, <a href="http://www.livemocha.com">LiveMocha</a> (a language learning online social network), and <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/teachthepeople/">Teach the People</a> (Facebook application), as well as a few other sample sites (see <a href="http://danielcraig.com/publicfolder/Social%20Networks%20in%20Education_notes.docx">notes sheet</a> for collection of sites).</p> <p><strong>Paper Presentation</strong></p> <p>I don't think my paper presentation went nearly as well.  In "Changing Learning Theories," I really bit off more than I could chew for this one.  I have an ambitious goal of doing an overview of Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism, and Connectivism as well a potential applications of Connectivism to language learning teaching and learning.  Did I mention that I had 20 minutes to do this in?  I had to rush through too much and I didn't explain the newest theory on the block, Connectivism, well enough for the majority who had never heard of it.  I should have just cut out the other learning theories (assuming that the audience had some knowledge of them) and focused on Connectivism and language learning.  Oh well, take a look at the presentation for yourself.  I put quite a bit in the notes, so be sure to check those out.</p> <p><a href="http://danielcraig.com/publicfolder/Changing%20Theories%20of%20Learning.doc">Paper</a> (.doc)</p> <div id="__ss_826427" style="width: 425px; text-align: left"><a title="Learning Theories" style="display: block; margin: 12px 0px 3px; font: 14px helvetica,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: underline" href="http://www.slideshare.net/danielcraig/learning-theories-presentation-826427?type=powerpoint">Learning Theories</a><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=learning-theories-1228667647313533-9&stripped_title=learning-theories-presentation-826427" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" /> <div style="font-size: 11px; padding-top: 2px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px">View SlideShare <a title="View Learning Theories on SlideShare" style="text-decoration: underline" href="http://www.slideshare.net/danielcraig/learning-theories-presentation-826427?type=powerpoint">presentation</a> or <a style="text-decoration: underline" href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?type=powerpoint">Upload</a> your own. (tags: <a style="text-decoration: underline" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/learningtheory">learningtheory</a> <a style="text-decoration: underline" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/theory">theory</a>)</div> </div> <p>Feel free to chime in with any comments, suggestions, criticisms, or just to say hi.</p> Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-62008305363659481422008-11-26T00:58:00.000-08:002008-12-09T22:07:22.225-08:00It's a Wonderful Life<embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-4867975537967299162&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-79118734297581891052008-11-20T19:17:00.000-08:002008-12-09T22:27:03.867-08:00personalized-google<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielcraig/3047392318/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/3047392318_9ceeef551d_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielcraig/3047392318/">personalized-google</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/danielcraig/">danielcraig</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>Is this new, or I'm I just getting it late. This just showed up on my Google results today. It allows me to raise the rank of sites and even delete them (from what I get back)</p>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-16642563126333025122008-11-16T21:30:00.000-08:002008-12-09T22:28:00.476-08:00YouTube - The Time Machine: START HERE!<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8rJ1WML60Y">YouTube - The Time Machine: START HERE!</a><br /><br />This is great. I've often thought about choose your own adventure types of videos and how they would be great. Someone finally did the work to do it, using YouTubes annotation feature. This just blows me away (the idea, not necessarily the video :)<br /><br />Hat tip to <a href="http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1110">Alec at Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy </a>for the find.<br /><br />Just imagine doing one of these with your students. It would be great. They could all take a branch of the story. Maybe the class could determine a few endings and set a goal to reach those endings within a number of steps (depending on the scope of the project). This could be a sizable undertaking, but one that could be a LOT of fun. I have flashbacks of high school when students would do projects for variety shows and pep rallies. Some of these included pre-recorded video that students, teachers, administrators, and members of the public participated in. They were great. Take this to another level and take the adventures through multiple threads. Incredible potential here for a fun, educational activity.<br /><br />Check out the start here and wait until the end to make your choice.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/l8rJ1WML60Y&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/l8rJ1WML60Y&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003147311745652461.post-64321104543666662282008-11-08T06:08:00.000-08:002008-12-09T22:07:22.783-08:00That isn't really your friend: hijacking users in Facebook and how to protect yourselfThis won't come as a surprise to many of you, but Facebook has become the land of opportunity for bad folks trying to load nasty things onto your computer. I have had 3 Facebook friends send me messages that were obviously either simply spam or hijacked sites with downloaders (scripts that load bad programs onto your computer) and I've seen Wall postings on scores of other friends sites that were obviously the same. Now, I have personally received Facebook mail, chat, and Wall messages in this vein.<br /><br />Some news reports on the topic: <a href="http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2213180/spam-posters-target-facebook">1</a>, <a href="http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/107015,facebook-user-profiles-hacked-wall-feature-relaying-spam.aspx">2</a><br /><br />I like to think of myself as rather tech savvy, but I nearly click on these links too. I would never do that in my email, but Facebook is a place where we are all friends, right? And I'm not even a teenybopper with 400 friends, most of whom I hardly know; I know all of my friends in Facebook well. This is why I feel almost obligated to click on a link that they send. This is something that those bad folks are counting on and we all have to retrain ourselves.<br /><br />Below is an edited and slightly expanded copy of a message that I sent one of those friends who asked how she could protect herself. The advice below is certainly not extensive, but I believe that it does cover the basics. If you have anything to add, please do so in the comments.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What to look for:</span><br /><br />(1) Messages with just a link and no description (which means that when you send links to other people you should include descriptions).<br /><br />(2) Links to websites that are not major media/tech companies or something that you know is your friend's website. Websites like CNN, MSNBC, Youtube, Flickr, and so forth are ok. Sites like geocities, msnspaces, and other sites that host free websites are not a good sign.<br /><br />(3) Messages that just sound spamish--"Whoa! You gotta check this out," "I can't believe what this chick did," and the last one I got was "Someone posted a video of you being bad." (I almost fell for that one).<br /><br />(4) Bad spelling and grammar. Now, you may have bad spelling and grammar yourself, but if you don't think that your friend does, don't click on it.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How to protect yourself:</span><br /><br />(1) Most of these direct you to a website that has a script that loads something bad on your computer. This almost always comes through your browser (likely Internet Explorer), though it could come in through a host of other programs like Acrobat, Flash, or any other software on your computer that has a vulnerability that is not patched. Therefore, make sure that all of your software is updated. Most new applications have a "check for updates" option under the "Help" menu. It is especially important to have Windows and MS Office fully updated. This is where most of the bad stuff gets in.<br /><br />(2) Drop Internet Explorer. It's just not worth the trouble. Firefox is the best out there in my opinion. It's also one of the safest (though nothing is perfectly safe).<br /><br />(3) Invest in a good antivirus suite and keep it up to date.<br /><br />(4) Make sure your firewall is turned on. It likely is, but make sure. If you are running XP service pack 2 or higher, the default is to have the firewall on.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />What to do if friends report that you are sending strange messages in Facebook (and you really aren't):</span><br /><br />(1) Contact all of your friends and tell them not to click on any links that you send, at least for a while.<br /><br />(2) Change your FB password and possibly your email password that is associated with the account (they could have used that to get access through the password reminder function).<br /><br />(3) Contact FB and tell them what's going on.<br /><br />(4) Check all of your computers (home, work, and other) to make sure they are updated (especially the antivirus program) and run a scan.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What if a friend sends me one of these messages?</span><br /><br />(1) Let them know immediately. They can likely stop them by simply changing their password. A little more work might be necessary if their computer has been compromised, though.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Am I safe now?</span><br /><br />Not really. It might be that none of this works. Websites like Facebook are notoriously easy to hack for someone with a bit of energy and an ounce of know-how. It's really a numbers game, because you are always hoping that it's someone else and not you :) In the end, you just have to be a little careful and follow some basic rules and you will be a lot less likely to be a victim.<br /><br /><br />------------- UPDATE 11/15/2008 --------------<br />I just happened to run across Facebook's help section that makes people aware they what you are experiencing is likely a known virus (on your machine, not theirs). See Facebook info <a href="http://www.facebook.com/security">here on the Koobface</a> worm. They point you to a <a href="http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=207575670">Kaspersky notice</a> that has much more information.<br /><br />The short of it is that when you follow links to a bad site, it prompts you to download the most recent Flash application, but it's really a nice little virus that attacks both Facebook and MySpace sites. <br /><br />How does it know your password? It doesn't have to. You're likely logged in already, which gives it access to everything it needs. It pillages your contacts and sends out a bunch more posts to the nasty Web page to infect more people. Really, if it weren't so nasty, I'd have to say it is genius.<br /><br />------------- END UPDATE --------------------Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01067745321093097451noreply@blogger.com0