Over the past few weeks, when I’ve been very busy with marking etc., I’ve not been totally ignoring this blog, I’ve just been saving several sites as useful/ interesting for whatever reason. Quite a few have been “Web 2.0” type tools, so, rather than posting about them all, I’ve decided to create a new page…
Google Notebook… It’s Google’s latest idea. Like many of their other ideas, they’ve taken something that already exists (in this case, Firefox’s QuickNote extension – and many others for example). They’ve then improved it; at least, I think that they have; others aren’t so sure. The advantages as far as I can see it are…
Having talked to various people about “Wiki on a Stick”, I thought I’d better have a go. The first page that I found was one at MediaWiki – which is the one I’d seen before. I intially tried the method with Uniform Server3_3, though that started to look rather fiddly (and quite large, given that…
Etre a usability company who have an eye tracking device, have been using it to study how users use a home page, if they’re just browsing. While the group testing the sites were a little more homogeneous than one might expect for sites such as Amazon, (18-40; experienced Internet users ) the results seem to…
Skills for Access : The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Accessible Multimedia for e-learning I was looking for some information for a MSc student – and have just come across this site, which seems to have lots of useful resources – re. Multimedia learning and accessibility!…
Now isn’t that a good idea?! Difficulties with websites by many users with disabilities is in the news at the moment – I suspect that it’s related to the launch of the BSI’s PAS 78 – Guide to Good Practice in Commissioning Accessible Websites. I’ve skim read it, and there are definite guidelines for ensuring…
Rashmi asks this of a site that’s using a tag cloud as the primary navigation. Given that I’m currently struggling with trying to balance categorising & tagging – I think that there is a possibility for both, to me, categorising is more static, tagging more dynamic, however, I’ve got to get the balance between them…
The NITLE News Volume 4, Number 4, Fall 2005. The main article of this edition looks at webservices, so pretty much tied up with Web 2.0. As the article concludes, Web 2.0 is very much in its infancy; the applications to education even more so. May well be interesting to look back at in say…
Wired Blogs report on a collaboration between VideoEgg and SixApart aiming to make video blogging much easier than it currently is. It only works (at the moment) with SixApart’s TypePad service, which isn’t a free service, so, while VideoEgg is free, it’s not possible to get a ttally free video blog that’s easy to use….
Google Groups : Teach and Learn Online Leigh has both a blog & a group on Google Groups entitled “Teach and Learn Online” (TALO). A recent thread has been alternatives to commercial software in general. James Neill-Wilderdom (from Uni. Canberra), has been experimenting with Eric Meyer’s S5 – A Simple Standards Based Slide Show. –…