iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

Brock University’s documentation for Isaak, Brock University’s Sakai-Based Learning Management System (LMS), is maintained within a wiki at http://kumu.brocku.ca/sakai. This wiki is intended to be a practical, readable, guide that is aware of the context that instructors use Sakai/Isaak for teaching at Brock University. What follows I had actually hoped to present on this at… Continue Reading Using a wiki to document Isaak, Brock University’s Sakai-Based LMS

Allow me to promote my latest web/twitter project: timelesstweet.com or @timelesstweet . If you’ve used twitter, or even if you haven’t, you may be familiar with the “Did you hear? A celebrity died. RIP celebrity.” theme or “Can’t wait for the weekend!” them found in a lot of people are saying there. This is what… Continue Reading Timeless Tweets

Here’s how you can add your “at messages” to your Mac Mail.app 10.5 or 10.6 (or Thunderbird or Outlook Pro, etc.) via Twitter search’s RSS feed. I’ve become a twitter re-tweet junkie. To get my fix I added an RSS feed of twitter’s search results to Mail.app. Here’s how I do that: Go to http://search.twitter.com… Continue Reading Twitter in your inbox

I’m planning on doing some updates to my web site so that I can move away from shared hosting and gain more control over the web server. Not sure what the time line is, but consider yourself warned 😉 Probably the best place to keep up with the process is twitter.com/mattclare

Lindsay and I put together a slide show for our wedding reception and set it to music. I thought the Tragically Hip’s In View would be a good choice as it’s catchy and suited the slideshow. I had bought the Hippopotamus album from iTunes, but because of the DRM on the file I was not… Continue Reading UMG asserts copyright of “Slideshow from Lindsay & Matt’s wedding”