The keynote for the conference is Will Richardson, which no doubt will talk about a lot of the same issues that I'm talking about - mainly because he's been an influence on my thinking as a classroom educator and this Web 2.0 tools.  In looking around at his approach, and what his likely keynote will cover, I want to be able to add to what I've learned from the classroom experiments I've run. Unfortunately, it's a lot of the same things he's learned. So I'm struggling with how I'll be able to add value or build on his keynote, other than my natural grace and charm. And great moustache. I've got a couple hours on the train/subway/bus tomorrow morning to think about it, so maybe I'll have a moment of brilliance? I suspect I'll trim my theory portion of the show and get more hands-on with the different tools and what I've found from using them.

The hashtag will be #etc2010conf - so follow it for more information.

I hate that I spent half a day picking out the right font (Communist, if you must know) and at least that amount of time laying out the presentation in PowerPoint, which has to be among the worst product for design, and Slideshare screws it all up via the upload. Here's a preview, mind the odd formatting of my boxes, font, and at times incongruent fonts. There must be a way to get it right?

If you download it, you'll get it with the proper layout; you'll also get the notes, which has the sources of the photographs (all licensed by Creative Commons, labelled for reuse, except the one taken by my wife, who allowed me to use it in exchange for the $20 Tim Horton's gift card I got at work).

EDIT: After a brief phone call, he's still baffled, I'm ready to tear my moustache out.

I've been trying to embed a MediaWiki in my proposed D2L version of my Searching The Internet Effectively course. I'd like to constrict the opening of this page to remain in the frameset that D2L exists in so students can pop back and forth between the content that's in the course, and the wiki to add their own content. Every method of embedding I've tried opens the wiki in a new page. I'm beginning to wonder if the damn thing is set to automatically open in a new page.... or maybe Firefox is overriding some weird thing. First of all framesets?? Give me a break. If framesets get deprecated anytime soon (as they should) D2L is in for a major redesign. Talk about a total head-scratcher.

Also, I hate IE. I thought when I got out of web design as a career that I could learn to like, accept, ok not hate IE. Wrong. IE is crap. IE 8 is OK passable, except that when you use  the TinyMCE editor in D2L in an IE browser (IE 8 included), it strips out co-ordinates of an image map. And other attributes of the object tag. WTF??