A behind-the-scenes look at the work that goes into the Rich Media Projects sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Xavier University of Louisiana.
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
I'm moving this blog to a new location. From now on, it will be located at http://cat.xula.edu/blogs/rich/ -- see you there!
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Monday, February 02, 2004
Thinker: Completed encoding specificity demo.
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Haiku of Kobayashi Issa: Added text from David Lanoue to haiku e-mail list page. We're live! Sign up at http://cat.xula.edu/issa/list
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Friday, January 30, 2004
Haiku of Kobayashi Issa: Implemented page for subscribing and unsubscribing from a daily haiku e-mail list.
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Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Implemented display of content from hymns table, with links from appropriate people and movement pages. Implemented popes page, listing all popes in chronological order by reign.
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Thursday, January 29, 2004
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Finished enhancement of year pages, enabling display of ranges between two years. Linked to these pages from papal reign field in people pages.
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Interactive Taxonomic Zoology: Burned CD of project that is OS 9 compatible.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Created new table for hymns and lookup table to link hymns with people. Began work on enhancing year pages.
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Interactive Taxonomic Zoology: Met with Mark Schlueter, discussed plans for transition from Phase II (implementation) to Phase III (evaluation).
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Thinker: Revised demo of Baddeley's model. Created draft of long-term memory demo. Began work on revision of serial position effect and encoding specificity demos.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Met with Mark Gstohl and developed a list of six improvements to be made to the site. I fixed a problem with converting asterisks to italic formatting. Also fixed a problem with non-ASCII characters messing up our automatically-generated URLs.
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Kids to Afrika: Globat.com supplied a PHP tag to turn error reporting on, allowing me to debug the administrative interface. Added more events to database, and created a new event category to facilitate the display of board meeting dates on the board schedule page. Completed Ghana 2003 album, including new features for captions and high-resolution versions. Completed South African Parcel album.
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Monday, January 26, 2004
Kids to Afrika: Tried to work on administrative interface but PHP error reporting seems to be turned off, which make debugging difficult to say the least. Opened a support ticket with Globat.com on the matter. I also added some events to the database, some explanatory text to the Benin tapestries, and a PDF of the new recruitment form. Processed 15 images from recent trip to Ghana in preparation for creating Web photo album.
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Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Implemented album views for factors page.
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Thursday, January 22, 2004
Thinker: Met with Elliott Hammer. Reviewed demos for Stroop effect, ironic effects of thought control, Baddeley's model, biology of working memory, serial position effect, long-term memory and encoding specificity.
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Readings: Transferred video of four authors from Digital 8 and MiniDV to computer. Met with Biljana Obradovic and reviewed scanned photos, some video clips and some digital photos.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Readings: Scanned, cropped and color-corrected photographs of visiting authors.
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Thinker: Added support for automatically listing immediate subsections in any given section of the site. Completed draft illustrating Baddeley's model. Revised serial position effect demo. Began work on encoding specificity demo.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Thinker: Completed draft of serial position effect demo and brain map for working memory section. Began work on demo of Baddeley's model.
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Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Implemented display of papal category for chronologies and switched 28 records over to this new designation. Implemented display of categorical divisions in index of people. Created a new function to convert asterisks to italics and do other text formatting in a number of places around the site. Got rid of movement headings of factors index (since they're all in the same movement). Implemented display of relevant events on movements pages. Updated "About This Site" page with new and improved text from Mark Gstohl.
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Friday, January 16, 2004
Thinker: Began work on serial position effect demo.
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Thursday, January 15, 2004
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Met with Mark Gstohl. We discussed recent changes to the site and developed a list of seven improvements to be made.
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Thinker: Streamlined Stroop effect demo. Began work on ironic effects of thought control demo.
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Readings: Met with Biljana Obradovic. We sorted through photographs of recent visiting writers and selected the best ones to be scanned. She also gave me a CD-ROM full of image and video files.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Fixed problem with mail contact form. Divided display of people in a given movement into categories. Implemented display of ancillary data for popes. Improved display of names of people on links pages. Implemented rough display of annotated bibliographies.
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Friday, January 09, 2004
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Created lookup tables for linking bibliographic entries to people, events and works. Created copyright notice page and linked it from the bottom of all pages on the site. Created a crude "about this site" page. Installed links to Mark Gstohl's homepage. Created tables for glossary and ancillary information for popes. Added a category column to people table. Created mail contact form.
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Thursday, January 08, 2004
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Met with Mark Gstohl and discussed list of seven improvements and additions to the site. As a first step toward implementing these, I created a bibliography table in the database.
NOTE: This blog will be on hiatus while I make the trek to Indiana for the holidays.
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Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Modified display of comparative theologies so that topics are columns rather than rows.
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Thinker: Refinements to divided attention demo. Began work on Stroop effect demo.
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Thursday, December 18, 2003
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Wrote the scripts to display comparative theologies.
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BibleDudes: Uploading files to new webhost and reconfiguring scripts accordingly. BibleDudes.com is now live!
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Thinker: Met with Elliott Hammer; reviewed divided attention demo. Elliott will get list of words to me soon.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Met with Mark Gstohl. Discussed ideas for a Jeapordy-style interactive game; tabled for now. Created new table for theological perspectives of various people or works of the reformation.
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BibleDudes: Met with Michael Homan. We initiated a two-year hosting contract with iPowerWeb.com.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Kids To Afrika: Fine-tuning the new website. Everything seems to be working now. It's at http://www.KidsToAfrika.org/
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Thinker: Completed divided attention demo.
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Monday, December 15, 2003
Thinker: Continuing work on divided attention demo.
