Educators and Web 2.0

February 18, 2009

edtechclinics

My company recently completed the Educator’s Technology Clinics Sub-site for Harrisburg University.

As a teacher myself, I find the concepts covered in these upcoming clinics interesting. The tools for teaching have changed over the 5 years I’ve taught (off-and-on), and I’m always looking for ways to make learning easier for students. For instance, I set up a blog with RSS and an iCal schedule for a photography class I’m teaching this semester. I spoke with a philosophy professor that was creating podcasts for his students and using Blackboard, and have had recommendations for class assignments using online postings.

Still, I’d love to see how other instructors are integrating Web tools in their classrooms; if anyone has any resources or links I’d love to hear about them.

Categories:	Harrisburg, socialnetworks, webdesign

New Homepage

February 14, 2009

I redid my personal homepage. I realize it’s not nice to put something as processor-intensive as Perlin Noise as a background, but given how simple this page is, it’ll pass.

Rather than do a complete Flash page, this page is actually using a Flash page background with HTML sitting over top. Nothing special, you can check the source if you’re interested in how I did it.

Categories:	browsers, Flash, webdesign

Ronan Camden Hauck

February 6, 2009

My wife gave birth to our first child, Ronan Camden Hauck, at 11:06 am this morning in our home with the help of a midwife (7 lb, 20 1/2 inches long). While he was slightly late, Ronan didn’t arrive while I was to teach class, plus he let Daphyn and me watch the Super Bowl uninterrupted, so he’s definitely okay in my book

For a brief moment, I considered naming the child Jeffrey Mohit David Lamar Yosef Hauck, but negotiated a child name my wife liked (Ronan, although Irish, makes me think of Japanese ronin, and Camden, well, I’m still an Orioles fan to some small degree).

I’m not the type for playing paparazzi to my kids (my pet peeves include people who substitute their own Facebook profile picture with that of their child), but I’m getting grilled by friends for not posting anything, so here are two quick pics (below). Ironically, a lot of friends replied to my text messages earlier in the day saying they’d seen him before I even took a picture of him. Apparently I have a lot of family working overtime on their Facebook tagging.

To the Twitterati, take heart in the fact that you guys found out the sex (it was a surprise) and the delivery time before my parents even knew. Serves them right for not following me.

Categories:	General

CPFUG Banner

February 4, 2009

Doh! Well, that was bright of me.

The Central PA Flash User Group is currently running a contest to create a banner ad using the FlashEff component. Judging is tomorrow, but I overlooked the January 31 deadline. Oh well, it was fun to play with, and this’ll work for Thing-a-day 2009

If you’re interested in the source, you can find it here.

Categories:	webdesign

My Desk

February 3, 2009

Here’s another mini-project for Thing-a-day 2009 (rollover photo below for detail). I wanted to post to Deskography, but wasn’t satisfied with their terms of use.

Categories:	webdesign

Coffee

February 2, 2009

Categories:	Uncategorized

Humpty Dumpty

February 1, 2009

Here’s a Thank You card illustration I did for Daphyn for her Baby Shower. It turns out my wife is a pretty easy client. Now, if the baby’d just arrive . . .