Soho Synth

July 1, 2011Technologymfrydenberg

I was in London this week to present a paper at the IEEE I-Society Conference.

Here’s a photosynth I made from photos I took while walking around London one day before the conference.

IT101 Options at Bentley

June 17, 2011IT101, Teachingmfrydenberg

Bill VanderClock and I spent the day making a 5 minute video describing the four IT101 options available to incoming freshmen at Bentley. The video will be played at orientation five different times. I wonder if it would have been easier to give the presentation in person. Lucky for me, we didn’t save the blunders.

Before

June 6, 2011Bentley CISmfrydenberg

We’re going to be renovating the CIS student tutoring and computer lab at my university over the summer. I took these photos and stitched them together with Microsoft Photosynth to create a view of what the place looks like before we get started with the renovations.

Factual Data Mashups

May 10, 2011Applicationsmashupmfrydenberg

Factual.com is a data-as-a-service provider. Here’s a mashup I made that takes their data about diabetes drug prices and plots it on a map. Only simple HTML coding knowledge required.

DropBox

May 4, 2011Applications, Teachingmfrydenberg

Ever since the day when my flash drive failed, I’ve become a big Dropbox fan. Dropbox is a cloud storage application that automatically synchronizes files on your computer to the cloud, and other computers on which you’ve installed the Dropbox application. Files inyour My Dropbox folder under My Documents are automatically synchronized. It just works.

There’s also a phone app so you can look at your files on your smart phone. Dropbox starts you off with 2G of storage, and you can earn more for free by promoting Dropbox on Facebook, Twitter, and with your friends.

I read this article on Lifehacker describing ways to get more free space on Dropbox. I knew that if you refer a friend who installs Dropbox, you and your friend each get 250 MB of additional storage space for free. I thought I was good, using Dropbox for about two years now, I managed to accumulate 8.25 GB of storage. I referred a new friend yesterday, and received confirmation of my increase in storage space.

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Tips for Twitter-Phobes

April 27, 2011Quoted, Teachingmfrydenberg

Biz Ed Magazine Check out my interview in the May/June 2011 issue of BizEd Magazine on using Twitter in the business education classroom. It followed a presentation I gave on the topic at last year’s Cengage / Course Technology Conference.

Telling Their Story

April 7, 2011Teachingmfrydenberg

The Vanguard, Bentley’s student newspaper, has a story this week about how some of my students volunteered to work with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of New England to record their annual research briefing event.

Lauren Shields, public outreach manager for JDRF New England, found me five years ago through an article in the Bentley Observer about my IT 101 class. Her husband is a Bentley alumnus, and she was reading about how my class at the time was learning to create podcasts. She wondered if we might help JDRF podcast the event. The idea of podcasting was very new then, and I was teaching students to make podcasts in my Technology Intensive IT101 class. We have been doing it ever since.

The first few years, we recorded the presentations with audio only, and then posted the presentations online. More recently, as web and video technology evolved and it became easier to create and share video online, we started recording videos of the presentations, and posting it online along with the presentations. Watch for their videos on the JDRF New England Blog (http://jdrfne.blogspot.com) along with the speaker’s presentations.

Platform as a Service

March 29, 2011Teachingmfrydenberg

While I’m at the Web 2.0 Expo this week, Jim O’Neil and Edwin Guarin from Microsoft spoke to my CS 299 class on Windows Azure and Platform as a Service. We worked together to develop an assignment for our students to interact with some of the PAAS features of Windows Azure. Jim walks students through completing the assignment in this video.

Virtually Speaking

March 4, 2011Speakingmfrydenberg

I’m speaking on May 12 at the Campus Technology Virtual 2011 Conference.

Speaking to campus educators is not new for me. What’s new about this experience is that I’ll be doing it without leaving the office. It’s not often that I present online. It will be interesting to see how an audience reacts to a speaker they see in only on their computer screen.

There’s a great lineup, with Anne Moore, Trent Batson, Gardner Campbell, and Sherry Turkle also offering an hour to present at this virtual conference.