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I’ve mentioned in the past, tools like Google Spreadsheets and Google Docs, as a way of collaborating on Documents. I’ve just discovered from a couple of conversations with people that if you want to collaborate using them, they both work slightly differently. Google Docs (which, was originally Writely and thus outside the Google empire) requires…

I’ve just been trying to sort out some of the software etc., on my PC. BuddySpace An OU project that uses the Jabber network. It tries to place people on a map – which can be an office plan – or a map of the globe. Can’t use it at work (I thought it was…

A Welsh school is staying open – for just two pupils, making the cost per pupil around £45,000 – or roughly twice Eton fees… I saw another report of a school that was threatened with closure, so a parent teacher alliance was developed to save it. Local schools are wanted – we just have to…

The BBC have a summary of a range of blog postings about Google’s acquisition of YouTube. I personally think that Jupiter Research’s comment YouTube’s got nothing tech-wise that umpteen other user-created video sites can’t replicate. But they do have brand cachet, and, for now, audience. That’s what Google’s getting for its $1.65bn. sums up rather…

WorldCat About a year ago I found a service called redGreenLight – which allowed me to create a list of books etc., and to link my account to the University Library – so that I’d know if we actually had the books that I was interested in. It would also create a correctly formatted bibliography…

The US based Deleting Online Predators Act 2006 (don’t you just love the name … can you really *delete* a predator?!) lead to a lot of discussion when it was first discussed in May. It was passed in July, though that seems to have attracted rather less attention (possibly because of the problems in the…

David Davies’ Edublog simile generator gave me a laugh, particularly as I’d thought it said “smilie” generator, so I was hopefully looking for some Edublog smilies….

Explore Shakespeare with Google This seems useful – with the increasing range of books in Google’s book search, they’ve now got most of Shakespeare’s works – so you can search them all at one. There are also links to Google Earth & a tour of the Globe etc….