Vocab: toea
Today, I learn: toea: 100 toea equal 1 kina in Papua New Guinea.
Again, an image search was useful too:
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Vocab: koa, tree to table or guitar
Continuing my list of words I hadn't known
1. An acacia (Acacia koa) native to Hawaii having flowers arranged in axillary racemes and small sickle-shaped leaves:
koa tree
Originally uploaded by amy.kay.
becomes
2. The light-to-dark brown or reddish wood of this tree, used for furniture, crafts, cabinetry, and musical instruments....
Koa Table
Originally uploaded by liltree.
or
Customized Kramer bass: Koa figuring
Originally uploaded by A.J. Kandy.
Vocab: kae
Jay; Garrulus glandarius
Originally uploaded by phenolog.
According to hydroponicsearch (sourced from gcide and 1913 Webster) the Eurasian Jay or Garrulus glandarius is also called "kae".
So that is why, if I remember, I could play kae in word games :-)
Vocab: hao
How many times do we need to receive information to remember it? 7?
Okay first time, thanks to Google:
Definitions of HAO on the Web:
* 10 hao equal 1 dong in Vietnam
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Hao is a large coral atoll in the central part of the Tuamotu Archipelago. Because of its shape, French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville named it Harp Island.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hao (French Polynesia)
and again thanks to kwout and the free online dictionary:
Vietnamese monetary unit - definition of Vietnamese monetary unit by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. via kwout
So if that sticks I can use HAO in Upwords or Scrabble or ...
And maybe this piece of geographic data will come in handy one day:
Vocab: goa, hae
Scramble delightfully tells me all the words I miss - and each time there are so many it is quite embarrassing. Or perhaps not - the letters are after all scrambled, and it is more "can you see them" than "do you know them", so okay I'm not so embarrassed. And maybe not even over some of the words that I didn't even realise were words, that is: sure I saw the letter combination but wouldn't even think to jot it because it is not to my knowledge a word.
Still, maybe knowing more words will help me see them better.
goa: n. A gazelle (Procapra picticaudata) native to Tibet and having backward-curving horns in the male. [The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000, Houghton Mifflin Company.]
(making GOA an acceptable Scramble/Boggle, Scrabble word which I'd have thought to not be acceptable had I known only of: Goa - a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony)
And maybe the information (with pictures) from Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation Foundation could help me remember:...
And now to embed 'hae' in my memory:
Friday, May 02, 2008
Rationality in policy making
It's quicker to start a blog post than to log in to Blackboard to post an interesting but non-essential comment on the student discussion boards, so:
Sunday, April 27, 2008
YouTube Scholar
MEDIA PRAXIS is the Professor who created a course Learning from YouTube (which I found via one of Langwitches del.icio.us links for today: to openculture's guest feature by Alexandra Juhasz, which I'd really like to study from which I want to consider and learn/write/learn... when I have more time!).
I haven't noticed Library2.0 posts about that course yet, though I could have missed it, indeed I'm sure one of the Academic Library2.0 lot would have noticed and mentioned it.
Still I wanted to jot-blog about MEDIA PRAXIS and her course on YouTube because I also think Rach might be interested and I don't think she uses del.icio.us yet for me to 'for:' her, but she might be subscribed to my blog.
So, I haven't made any significant comments on what I'm quite certain would be a very rewarding tour of thought, which is a little embarrassing, but it is time for bed.
No I can't leave it at just text, got to add a photo or video... hmmmmmmmmmm.......
Thursday, April 03, 2008
web design curiosities
Have you seen anywhere the cute little tick 
or ✓ next to a link indicating you have already viewed it (rather than an alternate colour)?
For example, from Man with no blog (which blog I surfed by today after following one of Kathryn Greenhill's tweets)
My first guess is that effect might be achieved with CSS - including the tick maybe as a .gif in the style for visited links?
Naturally to share and discuss this piece of cuteness I tried to kwout it first rather than PrintScreen & edit. I say "naturally" because kwouting is so quick and it is a new game for me. However one who understands how kwout works might amend "naturally" with "ignorantly" because whatever kwout is grabbing, it is not precisely what you're seeing.
For example: This that I first tried to kwout but for you to see what I saw (the cute tick next to the Twitter link) I had to cut from a PrintScreen:
when kwouted looked like this:
This cut of screenshot:
With two of different kwout grabs of the same page:
And another time:
and I haven't been able to get kwout to grab the same kwouted appearance I first saw for that page, but this is the style it had:
Could someone resolve my curiosity about why that happens?
Sunday, March 09, 2008
kwout comes in handy
Some time back one of my feeds mentioned kwout. I think I tried it first to capture the image of a game and I think it didn't work because it was a Flash game - doesn't matter anyway: kwout came in VERY handy this week to share an item of research for group work in the current unit (CULLB708C Manage Information Access) of my course (Advanced Diploma Library and Information Services). While I could have cut and paste the significant content, using kwout portrayed the information in its visual context, while providing due credit to the source:
It embedded nicely in the Blackboard discussion forum and e-portfolio group workspace.