Tuesday, 19 June 2007

visualisations of the web

Another nice tool for visualising the activity of the web. This one creates colour coded diagrams based on the type of tags on sites or pages - images, divs,tables etc. It creates very attractive and varied visualisations, and is available on a blog here. ALong with processor it provides an ability to create simple graphics (not quite so simple with Processor)that are visualisations of the flow of type of information.
If there are more around, please let me know!

Monday, 18 June 2007

tips for blog extras

A few 'how to' tips for blogger blogs.
Add ing an image to your header. Go to customise blog, then click edit for the header. In the popup window you can select to add a picture, either from you computer or the internet.
Adding a tag cloud. I used zoomclouds, where you just have to enter your rss feed source, which you can get by going to your blog feed, and then copying and posting the address from the browser. Once you have this and enter it into zoomcloud, it generates your javascript, which you then copy and paster back into a blogger widget (add html/javascript functionality in the customize design option of you blog). In zoomcoulds there are many editable layout and designs to choose from.
Adding images to your layout - again, go to customize layout, and choose the add picture option.

Tuesday, 12 June 2007

web tools

Museums remixed blog mentions The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning having some web tools that enable users to reuse and remix openly avaialble web resources. Sounds like a good 2.0 resource.

Tuesday, 5 June 2007

Exploratorium Explainers

Just had a look at a museum blog put together by the floor staff at the Exploratorium. A good example of blogging as a sort of inhouse journal/avenue to communicate. Great photos, interesting anecdotes - some personal, some more to do with museum experiences. I really enjoyed it!

Monday, 4 June 2007

digital stories


More work on the digital stories for TAPIR and LSID. Scripting, workshopping ideas and then storyboarding. We are trialling using the TAPIR blog for comment and feedback.