rosettes:

Six websites I go to when I am upset: 

1) When I am disgruntled 

2) When I need a quiet place 

3) When I want everything to be okay

4) When I need a hug

5) Just click this. 

6) When I need to calm down. 

I’ll try anything once, unless I know that’s all the chances I get.

…um uh holy shit

totalefinsternis:

leauxwren:

archaeosaur:

tinseltechnoghead:

electromelody:

typeatilde:

rikapyon:

NICKI MINAJ – SUPER BASS (JAPANESE VER.)

I’ll just leave these here.
It’s not like I’m memorizing them or anything, geez… <__< 

この心臓はまるで boomin’ system
すぐにオーバーヒート need a cooler system
ひと目見た時から burn it up
冷めた心も勝手に turn it up
始まりはそんな感じ
盛り上がる club 夜中の3時
「僕達は友達さ キミと僕は友達さ」
yeah just like that, that, sippin’ on some yac, yac
帰り道は Imma put you in my back pack
出会ったばかりだけど
「トイレ行く」とかマジでふざけろ
I said, excuse me you’re a hell of a time
これは my, my, my 毎度の事じゃない
I mean, you’re so fly もっと話したい
マジな俺見るキミ like 「バカじゃない？笑」
Yes I am, yes I am
知らないなら Imma let you know my name
I’m Staxx T, If you know who’s hot
つまんねーメンズは chuck the duce up

CHORUS:
Boy you got my heartbeat runnin’ away
キミのすぐ隣まで
聞こえる boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
まるで super bass
boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
Yeah that’s that super bass
boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
まるで super bass
boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
Yeah that’s that super bass

BRIDGE:
いつまでも側にいて
No, no, no, no, no, I know you’ll stay
No, no, no, no, no, don’t go away
Boy you got my heartbeat runnin’ away
キミのすぐ隣まで
聞こえる boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
Can’t you hear that boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass

WHOA SO CUTE T_T

Here’s part of the post, and I’ve linked to the rest of it.

Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad

Looking at my activity here on the blog shows that I’m probably the worst blogger there ever was. Generally I’m so busy I can’t even think by the end of the day, never mind write a blog, and if I do, it’s because something has managed to grab me and inspire me so much, that I have to make time to get it out and on paper, so to speak. It’s almost 11PM and something managed to grab me and inspire me enough to get it down and I hope when you read it, you’ll take it to heart, because I did.

“…How we all have to be together in this life, that we all are each other’s caretakers in this life and you never know if you’re gonna be the most important person in someone’s life.”

Via downes, VUE is an open source application that pushes the envelope in the visualization/concept mapping department.  I have a  few projects that can take advantage of the ability to link nodes to local or public files, display images, and allow tagging and categories to be assigned.  Again, it passed the 2 minute tool test, and some of the more advanced features are well described and demonstrated on the Features page.

The other item making the rounds in the Canadian Copyright world is an astounding piece of work from Appropriation Art.   Not only is the topic one that is of concern/interest to me, but that aside, it’s a brilliant example of great instructional design.  Obviously the visual narrative form (with embedded links to perspectives of others) is well suited to addressing any type of debate, but I’m thinking of ways this could be used for case studies or historical descriptions for a variety of disciplines.  

supermario cupcakes

Perhaps I’m revealing my age, but I love these Atari era inspired cupcakes by Hello Naomi (via Boing Boing).

1. uploading/linking to images

2. keeping my pages organized in some sort of navigation structure

A couple of years ago I blogged about PB wiki (peanut butter wiki), a free wiki that had some features I really liked which seemed novel at the time: public or private settings, a nice interface, and decent navigation. A recent visit reacquainted me with this tool, but setting up an account and getting to my new wiki space ( I couldn’t remember my old login) proved to be a bit laborious and a few more steps than I would have liked. I recall that PB wiki was quite active in continually improving their product ( I recall liking the education-oriented templates they offered), and the homepage boasts that it has more pages than wikipedia–which, let’s face it, is a considerable accomplishment. But like some other tools I’ve used (WebCT comes to mind) improvements sometimes get in the way of useability, and at some point *less* truely is *more*. I still think PB wiki is a great tool to suggest to students and instructors, but for the new-to-wiki set I would probably recommend Zohowiki.  I’ve been a fan of other products in the Zoho suite, but the Zoho wiki really does everything I would have liked a wiki to do.  Here’s a checklist.

1.  quick and easy to get started

2.  an extensive editor so I don’t need to know any wiki code to format

3. really simple image uploading

4. a comments feature at the bottom of the page (which I prefer over a tabbed discussion page)

5. public/private wiki option

The bonus *I love* features that make this my number one choice for teaching are:

1.  simple, clean navigation.  I didn’t get lost in my collection of wiki pages and could find them quickly and easily.

2. the ability to add pages and subpages to form a collection of pages hierarchically connected to a homepage (think about the educational possibilities! The homepage could be Course A, the subpages could be the weekly topics, the sub sub pages could be activities related to each week ).  Importantly, these are conveniently displayed in a navigation column on the right, as well as with breadcrumbs at the top.

3. RSS everywhere! On all the pages!  This includes a ‘recently changed’ section that appears at login. This means that if you are teaching with the wiki, and have asked students to have their own wiki spaces for project work or whatever, you can stay on top of their activity and know if they have made changes.

4. A ‘global links’ box that can be edited to include links to other wiki pages (think course topics, or student projects) , or  external URLS (eg. student blogs, or other reference material)

The limitations of wikis have caused me to use them in conjunction with other tools–a CMS or a weblog, for example.  I’m pretty sure I could teach an entire online course using Zoho wiki, and it certainly could be a great ‘just in time’ teaching tool option.