Image sites Thing #28

I did some research on image sites this week. I found a comparison table, captured and edited it to find the best site to store images for my purposes. I dont know exactly what my purposes are but i would like to store family and neighborhood photos of which i have many megabits. So i looked for sites that were not limited in storage volume and sites that would allow high-resolution downloads. The capacity to link would be an added bonus if i ever need it for authored web pages but turned out not to be so easy to find.

For my purposes, Flickr did not rate well enough even to rank. It is very limited in many ways. Dot Photo, Fujifim and Webshots from CNET were all competitive. All have subscription costs, Fuji the lowest.

The best for me is Picasa from Google. They have an upload manager that handles all most any file type you can imagine, unlimited storage and are totally free.

If anyone wants the comparison table i could email it to you. I cant find a way to upload downloadable files to this blog site so if anyone wants it let me know.

Citation Machine Thing #31

The bibliography of the students in their 1st Language Poetry projects were unexpectedly poor, given the number of times it was taught by both Bob and i. So i gave two small follow up assignments to insure student mastery of Citation Machine.

Citation Machine is an excellent web resource. I handed every student a book, demonstrated using the site again, then required them to do a one book bibliography with it. Students were able to copy and paste the bibliographic information into a Word file and unless it was perfect i could reject it.

To follow up, students were required to hand in their project bibliographies on paper. I modeled collecting website information again on the Canterbury Tales and then turned them loose to create their own. This is much more difficult because of the lack of standardization of websites, even ostensibly authoritative sites are difficult for students to manage. But most students were pretty well. When helping students, even i am confused by the terms "Title of the Web Page" and "Title of the Web Site". Sometimes the web page name only appears to be the window name, but i know this to be distinguished in html. And frequently i only used the base server address for the the Web Site title tho i doubt this is what Mr. Turab had in mind.

All this should be settled when we get a president for the Internet.

ebooks Thing #22

WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet
The drought of March hath pierced to the root,
And bathed every vein in such licour,
Of which virtue engender'd is the flower;
When Zephyrus eke with his swoote breath
Inspired hath in every holt* and heath *grove, forest
The tender croppes* and the younge sun *twigs, boughs

I looked at NetLibrary. It appears to be a subscription service. Could not get far with it.

I tried doing research on Canterbury tales using ebooks. I was not impressed with this. Who would want to read a book on a laptop screen when one could curl up in front of a fire with a dusty copy checked out from the library and a pipe and small glass. But to each his own. I found several open source readers that can be downloaded for almost any operating system. Versiontracker has a slew. Most were free and some open source but none came with tobacco or whiskey.