Students writing short papers and posting them for comments from other students is a fairly common pattern among VCU faculty. It’s a nice entry point because it doesn’t require any radical rethinking but still starts to expand the audience for the work, has possibilities around peer review, and is a possible gateway to writing on […]
Kin Lane mentioned that IFTTT, a service entirely built on APIs, doesn’t have an API. That bothered Kin and the more I thought about it it bothered me. So I figured I’d start disentangling myself from IFTTT. One of the things I did with IFTTT was to send out a Tweet any time I posted […]
flickr photo shared by goosmurf under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license This one will be improving considerably in the near future but given I’ve just been talking to many interesting people about APIs, reclaiming various things, and Indie-Ed Tech1 I figured I’d get it out early and that’d force me to follow up. […]
A while back I was messing with getting Instagram data without bothering with their API because I think their most recent API changes are really annoying. I’m also a bit fascinated with the scale of numbers in social media right now. I opted to look at Snoop Dogg’s Instagram followers and plot their change very […]
I had an interesting conversation with a pair of elementary school teachers. It led to me saying I’d put our two older kids on Good Reads in lieu of some less pleasant ways of documenting their reading. It’s not a place I’d necessarily drop a group of 3rd graders. As we spoke, I figured I […]
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I was just messing around a bit more with mashing up the YouTube API post from earlier with the Twitter post from earlier today. This Google Script will get the view count of a particular video (Gangnam Style) and send out the total views and the time elapsed watching the video (assuming I did the […]
flickr photo shared by Thomas Hawk under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) license Reclaim Hosting has a great status page that alerts you when stuff is not working correctly. We had a brief outage this morning and I just thought it’d be nice to see if we could proactively send out a message based […]
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Radioactive is the book that VCU’s first-year students are reading. It’s an interesting book with interesting art and collage playing a major role in the design. I hadn’t really looked at it until this morning but I ended up in a conversation and an idea came to mind. “What if we could deconstruct elements of […]
Like the music post a while back, I’m not going to attempt to tie this to education in any way. I’ll start this off with a caveat similar to my posts on programming . . . I’m just a guy trying to do stuff. Almost all of it is on the very edge of, perhaps […]
Because I’ve been messing with The Events Calendar for the RVArts project, along came another conversation where that plugin seemed like a good answer. It answered all their needs except for one – the wanted to have the month view of events be the homepage for the site. I knew that didn’t happen natively but […]
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