Having demonstrated using a 2nd login with teams to share hand drawn content, I started to investigate how to do it in Collaborate. From a teaching point of view, Collaborate has a lot of useful classroom type features (it was, after all, designed for them!) You’ve got a whiteboard, breakout rooms, hands up, students can set a status,…
Category: Software & Computer Handy Hints
Drawing on screen
One of the more common questions we’ve been asked in the CTIL team is how to incorporate hand drawn content – such as equations, graphs etc. I saw a tweet from James Clay, leading to his post on just this issue – using a tablet as a separate whiteboard. To summarise his post – Start…
Cohere.
The Open University’s Cohere tool looks as if it could be interesting, and I see it’s now in Labspace -alongside compendium. (But hard to tell, the interface has changed since I last went there)…
Computer Hardware in Plain English
Yet another great video from CommonCraft. Recently, they’ve started to cover a whole range of material; outside the computer based ideas. While they’re informative and interesting, I wish that they’d make it easier to sort the show into a “computer” (preferably including those commissioned for different companies) sublist & “other” sublist. But, keep up the…
Happy 40th Birthday, mouse.
On 9th Dec 1968 Doug Engelbart demonstrated what was to become a mouse. Now, as I look round my desk, I have: A kitkat mouse (ball) Trackerball (which I prefer) Wacom tablet & wireless mouse (all 3 of these are connected to my PC) Tablet – trackpad & pointer – fingers also work (it generally…
Flock's Screenshot extension
I’ve just installed the “screenshot” extension for Flock. It’s wonderful – very easy to use, grab a bit of screen (upload to Flickr if you want) – and there’s the image. Now, just have to drag it in here 🙂 Shared with Flock – The Social Web Browser http://flock.com…
Google Chrome
I’ve just installed the Google Chrome browser to have a play. A few thoughts so far: Though it is based on Mozilla, it doesn’t offer the option to create a Master Password; so, the option to save passwords isn’t as useful. (That’s the main reason I don’t use it in IE, I can’t have the…
6 Adobe AIR apps
ReadWriteWeb have a list of useful AIR applications. I’ve just tried the Google Analytics application – it’s useful. Perhaps a little fiddly to set up profiles, as it seems that I have to enter the username & password to set up each profile – even when I have several sites tied to a single login….
Comparison of Free Bibliographic Managers
Useful table highlighting the features of various free bibliographic managing tools. At the moment, I’m tending to stick to a combination of Zotero – for its ability to capture information when working online, and EndNote – for the integration with Word etc….
medical tablet PC
Intel unveils medical tablet It will be interesting to see if it takes off. It’s reasonably light (3.1 lb), has been designed with the hospital environment in mind (washable), so I think it’s a case of watch and see….