I’m on my way to Denver for the Educause conference. Despite the bored look, I’m pretty excited about the free in-flight wifi. If you’re there, drop me a line. Trying to find folks who want to go see the Avs/Coyotes hockey game on Wednesday night, as well as trying to fit in some good food, good beer, and a trip or two to the local CrossFit affiliate, on top of going to and learning as much as I can while at the the conference.
I don’t blog much about work – no time, desire but no energy, etc. etc. But I just have to say that I am so proud of this. I have spent the past 15 months of my life on this project (and will likely spend the next 15 or more on it as well). Change is never easy, especially not when it affects daily work/school processes, but I’m confident that my colleagues at the college, as well as the faculty and students, will rise to the occasion and explore, use, and improve these new tools that we’re going to be using next year.
I’ve been looking in lots of places for audio, image, and video files that some of my students can use for a project they’re working on in lab. Here are some of the neat things – all available either in the public domain or via Creative Commons licensing – I’ve found:
Not really sure what Creative Commons licensing is? Check out this excellent video on the history and principles behind CC.
I’m still not 100% comfortable with licensing my writing under a CC license, although many of my photos are available with one of the CC licenses. What about you (if you contribute digital works to the internet cloud)? Do you reserve all your rights, or do you share some of your rights?
Jennifer over at Life As I Know It pointed to some fun blog analysis tools today. Just for giggles, I tried them out too.
Typeanalyzer pegs my blog as being written by someone who is an Myers-Briggs ESTP. In fact, it calls my blog “A Doer.” Given that a lot of what I blog about is hockey (and the rest is about my dogs) I can’t say I’m surprised by this. On the other hand, I have consistently scored as ENFP on the MBTI. So apparently what I write about and how I really exist in the world are different. Shocking, I know!
ESTP – The Doers
The active and playful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities.
The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time.
Genderanalyzer thinks my blog is written by a man (with a “score” of 77% – whatever that means.) Given that their polling results suggest that Genderanalyzer only guesses right 54% of the time, and given that I write about (wait for it…) hockey a lot, I’m going to peg their mistake on my having “non-girly” interests.
The Blog Readability Test pegs my blog’s reading level as elementary school. Yup, that’s about right. I’m not writing a lot of complex stuff here, I don’t go into too many “big questions”, and as you can tell from my first result, I’m much more of a doer than a writer.
The (stupid!) How Much Is Your Blog Worth test gives me a big old goose-egg. Hater test. Just because I don’t do all those blog-for-$$ things out there doesn’t mean my blog’s worth nothing. But then, I suppose it’s hard to quantify and test for personal satifaction of the blog author in a test like that…
I updated my theme without copying anyone. If you read this through an RSS feed, c’mon over and take a look around. Let me know if anything isn’t working for you. I’ll probably do a little more tweaking over the next few days, but so far I kind of like it!
nablopomo, tech | Megan 11/03/2009 | 
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