Zoho Writer Enhanced With Google Gears Interesting; as far as I can tell, Google Docs doesn’t integrate with Google Gears, but Zoho writer does. However, I’m not quite sure what use it will be at present, as it’s only possible to read documents off line, not to edit them. I guess for those who don’t…
Category: Web 2.0
Wikis in Plain English
A nice, simple video looking at how wikis work and can be used….
Children's Fight Club
Panorama look at the growth of bullying portrayed on various video sharing networks – in particular YouTube and LiveLeak – which has fewer restrictions than YouTube over violent content. The programme included interviews with victims, as well as those who have uploaded videos and managers of the sites. YouTube relies very much on the community…
How does the growth of social networking sites impact on e-portfolios?
Catherine Howell looks at the potential of things like Facebook and other social networking sites for PLEs. As I’ve mentioned already – I’m slightly worried about the impact of requiring students to use something outside the university – in case it fails. Having just spent quite a lot of time getting this blog back up…
Slideshare has audio.
The Bamboo Project report on the fact that Slideshare now supports audio files. Looking at the home page, I think that you have to have an MP3 file of the audio – and then match them. Not sure if you can upload a Powerpoint that has the audio embedded in it. I think that it…
Bulgaria visit.
I’m currently in Bulgaria at the moment; visiting the Technical University of Sofia. I gave a presentation today, looking at eLearning and Web 2.0. I’m not sure, though, that I got quite the right level, as few students had used blogs/ MySpace / etc – though several had used Wikipedia & YouTube. That’s when I…
Web 2.0: Where's it all going .
Broadcasting House had an interesting discussion this Sunday, looking at how things are changing. They had Andrew Keen – who is pretty vocal in his antipathy towards blogs, RSS and podcasts – seeing it as killing culture. (The differences in the straplines on the US & UK books is interesting. US: “how today’s internet is…
Social Computing
Though I don’t generally read it, Slashdot has a good post about Social Computing. The comments are Slashdots usual range – the odd few gems in amongst the self opinionated drivel… however, the links that the first poster gives are useful. Jeremy Zawodny re-asked the “What is Web 2.0?” question and got a good range…
Scribd
Quentin d’Souza has uploaded his Web 2.0 ideas for Educators to scribd. It’s similar to Zoho, Google Docs etc., in that you can upload Word Documents etc. It differs in that they are then designed for viewing – as .pdf, Word, plain text – and, which I think could be useful for quite a few…
Yahoo Pipes
This tool was a new one to me … I’ve had a bit of a play, and am still rather confused; but I suspect that I need to have a longer look at some of the examples. I’ve signed up with the other systems that Scott suggested, though I can’t test out “Kapow” at the…