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When we train someone we want to be as helpful as we can. We jump at every question and quickly respond to chats and emails. Watkins points out in 75 e_learning Activities that this may not be the best approach. On page 29 he notes that as a course progresses the demand on the instructor [...]

Conrad and Donaldson (2004, engaging the online learner, pp. 28,29) show a great grading rubric. It is really figure 3.1. Can we use that sort of thing in technical training? Sure! The grading rubric tells the student what is expected of the in the assignment. Lazy students will use it to figure out the minimum [...]

According to Conrad and Donaldson (2004, engaging the online learner, p. 17) “Every activity should be scrutinized to determine whether it matches a learning objective.” They go on to add that activities that do not meet this criteria add confusion and frustration. The learner is left asking “why did I just waste my time doing [...]

So I have iCam and some dlink cameras around my house. I have actually had them a very long time and finally got them working with the iPhone. It is a pretty neat setup and here are the results. I will tell you how I did it after the break. So I needed some iPhone [...]

So the front passenger side door locker never really worked that great on our volvo V70. It finally stopped locking so I had to replace it. $150 and I had it replaced. I had to drill out one rivet that was holding in the window rail at the bottom to get out the actuator. I [...]

I traded my iPhone 3G for $150 and a well used G1. I only have AT&T so I had to unlock the G1 first here: http://www.unlock-tmobileg1.com/. Within an hour I had my unlock code. I tried to call TMobile and although I was able to give them some story about the phone the email came [...]

So the G1 Android phone has like 256 Megs of memory for EVERYTHING except media. You can put media on the sd card, but that is it. I installed about 5 kids apps and already I am out of space. So since I rooted I can use apps2sd by partitioning my SD card. The problem [...]

So jailbreakme.com was released and I had to try it. Worked great. I tried it on Monday (8/2). I was really excited to do so because my3g was released. I really wanted to be able to use facetime outside of wifi networks and I can tell you it works. I also missed sbsettings, but my3g [...]

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Yet another use of dropbox I use it to back up my server… First I installed dropbox on my server. Free account using an email from one of the domains on that server. I could not use my primary account since everything on that account would also end up on my server. That is not [...]

What do you do to overcome a little lack of motivation? Stuck in a rut and just cannot seem to get out of it. Do not want to submit another assignment, don’t want to finish the next task or consider the next topic. I guess you pick it up and run with it. Just do [...]

So I was asked how to jailbreak your iPhone if you installed 3.1.3 since the only jailbreak I know of is for 3.1.2 and a whole bunch of older versions. Basically you downgrade to 3.1.2. Here are the steps: 1. Download a 3.1.2 ISPW from here: http://www.poorlad.com/iCommunity/ I see it as the v3.1.2 – Modem [...]

I had a need to get flash to play on a website recently. I took a look around and finally came up with JW FLV Player. So I took the dvd I needed to get on the web (it is a dvd showing the benefits of the Masonic Model Student Assistance Program) and applied handbrake [...]

Today I had a student call me on my google voice number and tell me that his laptop would not start up with video. Nothing on the screen. He even tried to hook it to a TV and there was nothing coming out. Video card seemed to be toast. No big deal? Normally this would [...]