I have included my full presentation in the form of a flash screencast. The video times are posted beside the links. I seperated the presentation into two parts to reduce the files size.
I would appreciate any feedback on it.
Part 1 (Time 26 min 22 sec)
Part 2 (Time 17 min 37 sec)
Web sites I referred to in the presentation . (1 page – PDF – 14 kb)
Enjoy!
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Pity, the links to the presentation don’t seem to work…
Ah.. they work from the front page:
http://www.teachinghacks.com/files/part1/part1.html
but not from the permalink page:
http://www.teachinghacks.com/2006/05/05/files/part1/part1.html
(better to use an absolute link instead of a relative link)
Hi Willem,
I'm not sure where you are seeing http://www.teachinghacks.com/2006/05/05/files/part1/part1.html as both pages the links are absolute not relative? Perhaps this was your newsreader?
Thanks
Hi Quentin,
The links from your blog don’t seem to work for me either. I get a No Post reading. I’m using Firefox so perhaps that is the issue.
John
I tried it in IE and neither the link for Part 1 or 2 was able to load. The PDF file loads fine.
John
Last comment,
The links work from my Bloglines RSS feed but not from the blog.
???
John
I tried resubmitting the post, I hope that helps.
I just can’t seem to replicate this error
Anyone have any ideas?
Ok John and Willem, I figured it out.
When I edit a post, that I have already posted, the base url automatically changes in WordPress to “../” instead of what I originally had there “http://www.teachinghacks.com/” and that made the url relative instead of absolute. This might be a bug in WP.
Thanks for keeping me informed!
new RSS-Tool: RSS2GIF
Hello, we have a news RSS2GIF-Tool. I think the name itself describes what it does. It creates an image that automatically updates itself, when the RSS-Feed is updated.
For usage in Boards, home pages, ….
http://www.rss2gif.com
Could you add a link to our new free service like you did for RSS2PDF?
regards
alfred
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