Winter 2009 ICT Educator Conference

The Nation and Mid-Pacific ICT Centers will be having there annual Winter conference in San Francisco, CA on January 8-9, 2009. For more information goto ICTCenter.org. This should be a great conference.

Jon Burgess is an Education Development Executive at Apple will be speaking on Millennial learning as the Keynote address.

There still time to submit a paper (till 12/5/2009) to this conference also.

Presentation: New Free Web 2.0 Developments

This is a presentation that is being presented at the Convergence Conference in Somerset, KY at the Center for Rural Development.

New Free Web 2.0 Developments 97

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Presentation: GIS Across Curriculum

This is a presentation that I am doing at the Convergence Conference in Somerset, KY at the Center for Rural Development.

GIS Across Curriculum 97

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Intellipodcast

Intellipodcast is a site that allows you to post podcasts. The site has an RSS feed for you to follow your favorites. It also gives you the ability to embed the podcast into a blog like the one I have done below.

Ustream

This blog makes use of a live video stream using a service known as ustream - http://ustream.tv. Whenever I am broad casting on the vince's video channel it will be visible at this location. http://ustream.tv/channel/vince's-video. The service is free, but does have ads so be careful.

You Tube Interview of Vince DiNoto

I was interviewed during August about my work with web 2.0 and NSF projects and Centers.  

Google Chrome

Google last week released a beta version of an internet browser, called Chrome. It is free and it is truly is a beta. It can be downloaded at http://gears.google.com/chrome/ It is extremely fast, but does have numerous issues that still will need to be resolved. One of the goals of the project is to be extremely small. The download was less than 1 megabyte and was very quick to install. It loaded my Google home page very quickly and all the feeds seemed to work properly. When I went to my SharePoint Server, the webpages did not display properly. When I went to edit the SharePoint site, it appeared to work properly, something that does not work properly in Fire Fox. It does have some issues with Google online word processor and there is a page of known problems. I believe that when Google puts out the next version it will be much improved. Currently it only is available for XP and Vista platforms, but will be available soon for Mac and Linux. Below is a screen capture using Jing.

GIS Using Citrix

GIS using Citrix Presentation

The purpose of this blog is to provide links to two presentations that I have recently done. I have spoken to the Kentucky Geospatial Conference and Same-Tec Conference. While there are slight differences in the presentations, the following link is to all my presentations.

http://techcenter.jefferson.kctcs.edu/presentation/

The address to the Citrix Server at this time is:

http://216.69.2.35/

The username is: workgroup1 (note you can try 2, 3, ...12)

The password is :P@ssw0rd

The ArcIMS server is located at: http://ims.jcc.kctcs.edu/

The data and ims server must be connected from within ArcMap.

PLease contact me at vince.dinoto@kctcs.edu if you need assistance.

Jing

Jing is a project of TechSmith. It is a screen capture (png format) and video capture (SWF format) program that is currently free. TechSmith is the creators of Snagit and Camtasia. I have been playing with this software and have been very impressed in what it will do. It can be found at http://www.jingproject.com/ it is a free download of about 8 MB. One of the other features is that it will run on Mac as well as a Windows operating system. Snagit and Camtasia will only run on the Windows platform. It took me a little while to realize Jing was running, because it uses a sun instead of opening a program, like you might expect. When you place your mouse over the sun it will provide options, such as capture. You select the region of the screen you wish to capture and select an image or a video. The image in this blog was captured with Jing it is part of my screen. If you select the video window, anything you drag into the window will be part of the video; it also utilizes your computer microphone or headset. You are limited in the length of the video and the number of frames per second. I have been very impressed with this product. The Jing website states that at some point this product may be integrated into other applications and may not always be free.