Isn’t Firefox slick? Love the auto copy and just added the URL fixer. I’ve been using both IE and Firefox interchangeably for quite a while now though most of my web surfing is in IE just because many products that we support such as OVID, RefWorks and some of the FHS online multimedia resources work best in IE AND because [...]
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Foxy Firefox
Posted in ETG on May 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Fun use of gaming technology in education
Posted in ETG on May 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I forgot to mention a nifty game I heard about at the 2005 Ed-Media World Conference. I think it was Rice University that presented a poster on a new game they developed for their virology course. The object of the game is that you are a virus and must invade the host (human) to win. Or was it the [...]
Let the games begin!
Posted in ETG on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This week it was all about gaming. There were a lot of choices but in the interest of time, I decided to try a few arcade and puzzle games. I have seen second life and the World of Warcraft in action and of course who hasn’t heard of Dungeons & Dragons! Recently the CBC had a great documentary exploring [...]
And on it goes…
Posted in ETG on April 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
MySpace: okay I think I’m missing something. I’ve been playing around in MySpace and am a bit disappointed. The group (or what I thought was a group) turned out to be a blog and a rather dull one at that. The music section looks intriguing; figures I’m sitting at a computer that doesn’t have speakers (which is probably [...]
Networks, Networks, Social Networks
Posted in ETG on April 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I wonder how “stable” the sites are. I registered in Facebook and was editing my profile when the site went down. Not an auspicious beginning, I must say. When I tried logging in, again this is the message I get: “Hey, your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within [...]
