Entries Tagged as 'Uncategorized'

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Reality Slap

Sitting in a meeting at a north Texas school district today, and this is a list of some of the sites with blocked access that I encountered in a quick check:

Bloglines
Gmail
Twitter
Ning
Blogger
Wikispaces
PBWiki
WetPaint
YouTube
Flickr
Photobucket
Picnik
Scrapblog
Jott
Fleck
Trailfire
Skype
Flock
Slideshare
Polldaddy
Zamzar
Google Documents

Some categories that the offending sites fall into include messaging, personal pages, entertainment/recreation/hobbies, instant messaging, web phone, dating/social (for Flock?), shareware/freeware, and, my [...]

3 Comments

Filed under Spreading the Word, Uncategorized, Web Tools

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Thank You, Picnik! Free is Good!

One of my personal favorite online photo editing tools, Picnik, is now giving away its premium features, such as advanced editing tools and special image effects (which it teased users with in a free preview period last year). They have added some advertising, but it is very unobtrusive. This site, which is incorporated into Flickr, [...]

0 Comments

Filed under Uncategorized, Web Tools, images/video

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

Merry Christmas!

Just wanted to say merry Christmas to all! It has been a very exciting first year of blogging, and I’ve enjoyed the conversations. I’m looking forward to 2008 and the continued venture into a brave new world in education and life!
Photo Credit: Arkworld’s photostream

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Frandyrodgers.edublogs.org%2F2007%2F12%2F25%2Fmerry-christmas%2F’;
addthis_title = [...]

0 Comments

Filed under Uncategorized

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

What’s In a Name?

I’m playing around with a title change for this blog. Why? Because the old one was as exciting and creative as one of those insurance meetings we have to attend at the beginning of the school year. If you hate the new one, please feel free to let me know–it is a work in progress.

[...]

0 Comments

Filed under Uncategorized

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Content Aware Image Resizing

Amazing video on the next wave of image resizing! (I know, I know–sounds VERY exciting! Trust me, it really is!)

Technorati Tags: images resizing video editing

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Frandyrodgers.edublogs.org%2F2007%2F08%2F28%2Fcontent-aware-image-resizing%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Content+Aware+Image+Resizing’;
addthis_pub = ”;

1 Comment

Filed under Uncategorized

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Time to Smell the Roses (and Paint the House)

It’s been awhile since my last post. I’ve been vacationing with the family, doing some home renovations, and catching up on some reading. I’ve got a lot rolling around in my brain waiting to be shared, and the time away from writing has been refreshing, if no less busy. I’ve got reviews of several new [...]

0 Comments

Filed under Uncategorized

Previous Entries

Next Entries