I must admit that when I think of a "mash-up", food rarely enters my head (even though most people in the UK associate the word "mash" with mashed potato). Anyway, what do you get if you mash-up the following: a picture, an RSS feed, Helene Blowers, a cake? Just in case no-one said this on [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2007’
Move over Bernard Herrmann!
One of the sections in Brendan Dawes' book is about generating images from music. Whilst messing about with the "North by Northwest" images (see previous blog post), I began to wonder if you could create music from images? Anyway, here's the first 90 seconds of my replacement soundtrack for "North by Northwest" It was created [...]
"North by Northwest" squished
After reading Brendan Dawes' "Analog In, Digital Out", I've revisited the colours of "North by Northwest" (see earlier blog post). Rather than squish every frame to a single horizontal line, this time each frame is squished vertically — see if you can spot the "crop duster" sequence: ( full sized version on Flickr )
Dear Facebook, Huddersfield is not in Northern Ireland
I was really tempted to create a protest group in Facebook but, for some reason best known only to themselves, the people at Facebook are insisting that Huddersfield is really somewhere in Northern Ireland… Even though the correct option is there ("Kirklees, United Kingdom"), it always changes it to "Huddersfield, Northern Ireland" when you click [...]
More "In their own words"
Here's a few more… Michael Stephens: Helene Blowers: David Lee King: Meredith's book:
spam in the hot topics
Apologies for the spam words that are currently appearing in the hot topics cloud at the moment. It looks like the BlogJunction blog has been hacked — if you view the page source for the blog, you'll find multiple hidden links to gambling sites (the links are currently being hosted by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya [...]
Librarians — in their own words
I've spent the last couple of days being inspired by Brendan Dawes' book "Analog In, Digital Out", and playing around with ImageMagick and PerlMagick. This evening, I felt like doing something for Kathryn Greenhill to commiserate with her for not winning the "Best Librarian/Library Blog" Edublog awards, so here's what you get if you take [...]
BBC Breakfast News items about YouTube
I briefly mentioned this item from the BBC Breakfast News during Jane Dysart's session at Online Information 2007… History lessons onlineThree teachers are using the website YouTube to teach history. 60 films have been posted online covering topics such as D-Day, Bloody Sunday, the Slave Trade, Vietnam and Mary Queen of Scots.(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/…) The videos are [...]
"Engaging the Xbox generation of Learners in Higher Education"
Just a little pointer towards a report recently released by Jebar Ahmed and Mary Sheard in the School of Education at the University of Huddersfield: New generation learners seem to be surrounded by technologies everywhere, at home, at school and in their pockets. Computers and interactive white boards are available in the classrooms, but how [...]