ePresence Community – ePresence 3.0 has been released This is (yet another) program for streaming video alongside a powerpoint presentation. It’s open source, will generate feeds in WMA, RM & QT formats, and uses Flash technology – so Flash Player 7 is required – if you want to participate in VoIP. Just to listen in,…
Category: Web / Software design
Web Accessibility Toolbar
Accessible Information Solutions have developed a “Web Accessibility Toolbar” Very useful! I was pointed to this at the HEA conference – and, though it has a slight drawback in that it’s designed for IE, and not firefox, it is useful – and should hopefully make it easier for students to check accessibility of their sites….
Low-Literacy Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Low-Literacy Users (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) In many ways, this article is pointing out the obvious – at least, to anyone who is used to working with anyone with low literacy skills. Whereas earlier research suggested that most readers skim a web page, the research was carried out with highly literate testers. For low literate users,…
Digital Web Magazine – Web Designers FREElance Toolbox for Windows Miscellaneous freeware tools … I’ve got/ used most of them, though some, such as ScreenRip are new….
Blender – Open Source 3d Rendering Software
EdTechPost: Blender – Open Source 3d Rendering Software A review of an open source 3d rendering engine – and also an SVG creation tool BOth look useful….
HDR – Statistics – Get Data
HDR – Statistics – Get Data The new stats from the UN Human Development Project have been prepared to view them as animations – showing change over time. I couldn’t quite get them to work (probably lack of patience, rather than anything else), other than the MDG Progress in Animation – which was fascinating, just…
Web Accessibility Resource Planner
Web Accessibility Resource Planner WebAim, a sote focussing on accessibility have now put together WARP. This is an area where, as a teacher, you can put together a set of resources for students about accessibility. While they give you a template (it ends up looking rather forumlaic), there is the option to either create your…
Prototyping and web interface design
Prototyping and web interface designA very useful list of tools to assist in interface design. Collated by one of the MSc eLearning students….
MetaData for Education – FAQ
CETIS have launched a Wiki to cover Educational aspects of Metadata.They state: This Metadata FAQ has been developed collaboratively during 2004 by participants from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee and other organisations including CanCore, ADL, JES and Co and CETIS. This FAQ provides guidelines…