….or Will We Finally Teach that the Audience Matters? Christian Long makes useful points, in particular in relation to student presentations/ blogs/ podcasts – commenting I suspect this is because our students have not traditionally been instructed in the ‘how to engage an audience’ side of the idea-sharing relationship. He’s got some useful URLs to…
Category: Software & Computer Handy Hints
Read Pal
ReadPal is an interesting looking piece of software. It claims that it lets you read faster than you might otherwise on screen. I’ve had a look, and I think that it could have some uses – the first problem I ran into was the fact that it only integrates with IE, not with Firefox (didn’t…
OLPC Human Interface Guidelines
Interface Guidelines for OLPC . A wiki, that’s clearly still being worked on, as some areas are just notes. Though still very much in note stages, I like the idea of the Journal – and I can see it tying in well with the “PLE” computer use I’d like to get students to move towards….
Portable software for USB drives
I’ve mentioned previously running software from a USB stick – and what I might put on it to make a “learning kit”. When I first tried, it was a case of downloading several Portable Apps & just putting them on a USB stick. Now the site that offers the Portable apps has also added a…
Using and citing video from Google Video
Vicki Davis gives a good overview of downloading, editing and then, crucially, ideas for how one might cite a section taken from Google video – as it’s something that the citation guides haven’t really taken on board … yet. The video that she has about citing, uses CitationMachine, something that David Warlick has helped to…
ConceptTutor
I was trying to find the URL for “Hot Potatoes” this morning, and thought that it was from UBC, so, I searched for Hot Pototoes UBC – and found a link to the actual site on a page of the UBCWiki. It was worth going to that site though, as ConceptTutor seems to be a…
Historical Maps in Google.
Google Earth has just been updated to version 4 … one really fun thing is the inclusion of historical maps – which they don’t mention on the home page. Luckily Ben Werdmuller has blogged about it – and they’re fun. OK, so perhaps not quite as much detail as the current maps – as 18th…
Free online file conversion
Zamzar – Free online file conversion. This seems like a useful site – especially for some of the multimedia coursework when students have videos in one format and want them in another. Via: Mr Belshaw…
Firefox 2.0 and Zotero.
I’ve been having a look recently at Firefox 2.0 (despite deciding how much I like Flock) in part due to the fact that Zotero only works with Firefox 2. I’ve used Procite for keeping references in for a while now, but it seems that the University is keen to encourage staff to move to Endnote….
How to search Google Educational Videos
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: How to search Google Educational Video. It will be interesting to see what will happen now that Google have bought YouTube – as Educational isn’t currently one of their categories….