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The Computer Whisperer

1 August 2009

Here's a bit of (non-)technical humor for a Friday morning…
French & Saunders, the British comedy team of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders did this sketch as part of their long-running comedy presence on the BBC.
Whatever your technical prowess (or lack thereof) might be, there may be lots of laughs in this for you.
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FoF: This is Norway

15 May 2009

As many folks know by now, my heritage is Norwegian — 100%. I'm stuck with it. It's a good thing I like it.
Sunday is Norway's national day – Syttende Mai (17th of May). It's the day that Norway adopted its constitution in 1814.
To celebrate and for my "Favorites on Friday", I'm sharing a YouTube video [...]

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The email that made my day

6 August 2008

This morning, I received the following email from an international education colleague:

Hi, Ruth! I subscribe to the SECUSS-L listserv [for study abroad / education abroad professionals] and recently got the link you sent to the list that included a link to your YouTube channel.
I was interested in the intercultural videos especially, but noticed the social [...]

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Tech Tool: FLIP Mino Video Camera

5 August 2008

A few months ago, I began to read twitters about a new video camera, the FLIP. I was really intrigued by the enthusiasm that people were expressing about the camera, especially from people that were used to using much more advanced and complicated video equipment.
When I investigated, I found a lot of things I liked [...]

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FoF: How does the news shape the way we see the world?

1 August 2008

Today's Favorites on Friday comes courtesy of the power and result of social networking and social media.
This morning, I checked my Facebook account. I noticed that a Facebook friend, Achim J. Mueller from Germany, had posted a link to World Mapper, a collection of world maps where territories are re-sized on each map according to [...]

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FoF: The Last Lecture…for real

25 July 2008

My choice for Favorites on Friday (FoF) this week is bittersweet.
There is a lecture series at Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) called "The Last Lecture"?where professors are invited to give a hypothetical "last lecture".
Professor Randy Pausch?, who was involved in the innovative Alice project, was actually dying of complictions from pancreatic cancer as he delivered his "last [...]

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Europe: July 4-20

4 July 2008

Join me as I travel around Europe this month for a client project. I'll be traveling to Paris, London, Barcelona and Rome with some possible side trips thrown in. Plenty of observations to be made on this blog and in my YouTube videos about crossing cultures and bridging divides — and I'm looking forward to [...]

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FoF: Dancing around the world with Matt Harding

27 June 2008

Anyone who really knows me knows that I love technology, music, dance and traveling the world…almost as much as I love dark chocolate.
Today's Favorite on Friday celebrates them all. Join me in?viewing Matthew Harding's video, posted on?Vimeo, of dancing around the world.
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Where the Heck is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
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FoF: Dydimustk, community management and Seesmic

6 June 2008

Today, I start a new feature — "Favorites on Friday", soon to be better known as "FoF".
First, I have to credit the idea to my favorite Minnesota?National Public Radio station, which used to broadcast a program on Friday afternoons called "Favorites on Friday". Here at Manitou Heights, I want to create an interesting mix on [...]

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Tech Tool: RSS Feeds

3 June 2008

Last week at the 2008 NAFSA: Association of International Educators?conference, it became very apparent that many NAFSAns do not know what an RSS Feed is — much less what it does.
As many of you know, I see no point in reinventing the wheel. There's a company called CommonCraft which has been making wonderful simple CommonCraft [...]

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