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More Flickr

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

A couple of my students have had problems getting their geotagged photos to show up on the public map: http://www.flickr.com/map They show up on a private map.  Here is my private map: http://www.flickr.com/photos/proftrusty/map but the same photos don’t show up … Continue reading →

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Roll The Dice

Posted on March 6, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Here’s something to make your assignment collection more interesting.  I routinely assign five homework problems.  Then I collect one of them.  I decide which one to collect by rolling the dice. http://homepages.findlay.edu/trusty/dice/ Of course, there are six possible numbers.  I … Continue reading →

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The Magic Bullet – A Plan

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Scott McLeod has a post about Blogging vs Life.  His main question – how do we learn all these new and incredible technologies without sacrificing our lives and families? Let me rephrase the question.  How does a first grader learn … Continue reading →

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Backups

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

John Schinker has a post that talks about the reliability of hard drives. I read the study by the Google people, and I can vouch for their results. I may not have the thousands of drives that they have, but … Continue reading →

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remarkableohio

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Since my podcast last week, I have become much more interested in geotagging (thanks John).  I have added a few pictures of the UF campus to the Flickr map: http://www.flickr.com/map Search for “Findlay” and click on the biggest dot.  Refine … Continue reading →

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