A colleague has just shown me Wordle which is really rather fun. You have to paste in a chunk of text, or a site that has a feed. It then creates a cloud (much like a tag cloud) of all the words that are in it. It ignores common words (e.g. The, and), but not…
In this week’s Multiple choice (in the Guardian Education Supplement), a parent, teacher & student were asked the above question. Both the teacher As a teacher, I think this kind of site has got to be part of the future. and the parent but I do think it’s possibly more likely you’ll get more from…
I’ve been fairly busy over the last few weeks – what with marking etc. On Monday, on the way to the HEA Conference, I decided to test out both my new tablet PC & NXEC’s free wireless service. It worked fine – I got posted quite a few posts that had been in draft for…
I’ve been investigating the OLPC quite a bit. I’ve also got back into reading about it. Due to the changes at the top, there’s been a fair bit of news coverage, including an article in the Guardian, which Stephen Downes pointed to. I’ve made comments on Stephen’s post, so won’t repeat those here. Over the…
I’d not seen Scott’s original matrix (or, to be strictly honest, I think I have seen it before, but I can’t remember where/ when / I certainly never did anything with it at the time!). The first interactive one rings a bell, though I think that it is a shame they’ve removed the gradation from…
I’ve been using the Talkr podcast for some time now, but it seems to have stopped working (? when I upgraded to WordPress 2.5). I’ve therefore just tried VozMe, which seems to work. It’s a little slower, as it creates the mp3 file on the fly. On the other hand, that means that it’s going…
Just updated to WordPress 2.5 one of the easiest updates I’ve done (though NowReading doesn’t seem to be working properly. The new dashboard is good; though there are a few issues that others have mentioned that I’d agree with (e.g. the categories now being at the bottom of the posting area, where you may well…
The world’s 50 most powerful blogs Several I’ve not heard of, and, perhaps not surprisingly, no ed-tech ones. Oh well. One day!…
… No wonder women swap gender. The Guardian reports on a research project at Nottingham Trent showing that 70% of female online gamers select a male avatar. I’d be interested to know what the ratio is on SL. (And, what the number of male gamers selecting a female avatar is)….
Ginger: the new Netvibes. I’d looked at Netvibes (along with PageFlakes) etc., when I first started using iGoogle. At the time, the main reason for selecting iGoogle was the fact that I could integrate existing google services easily. There was no other real reason – and from what I’ve seen, most are pretty similar. Ginger,…