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…
Blogging IT and EDucation
Science GCSE with online exams
Science GCSE with online exams Last week the QCA reported that GCSE coursework was going to be curtailed to stop students using the Internet inappropriately, though Science isn’t mentioned explicitly. There could, however, be good reasons for having all the students in this new course doing their course work in “controlled conditions” – as that…
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….
Geotagging images
Flickr now enables you to geotag images. I can see so many ideas for this, for our students to get to know where each other lives, to increase sociability by enabling them to discuss travel/ where their relatives live. On another note, for VSO volunteers, gap year travellers or whatever, it’s a good way to…
WorldCat [OCLC]
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…
Screen Sharing
Robin Good reviews Citrix’s GoToMeeting. It seems to be a pretty impressive tool, though not Free, so perhaps not ideal for students to experiment with. He also links to a post he made a few days ago, which has an overview of what he feels are the differences between “Screen sharing” and “application sharing” –…
Elgg Spaces launch interview with Dave & Ben
Josie Fraser has posted about an interview with Dave and Ben. Though she’s called it “Elgg Spaces”, it’s actually about far more than just Elgg spaces. It covers much of the current situation of Elgg. As some of you know, I’ve decided to move the MSc Students from Blogger to Elgg. I’d hoped that we’d…
Webcameron & Blogs from Space
On Saturday the Guardian covered both “Webcameron” – and the Anousheh Ansari’s Space Blog. By Tuesday it was reporting that the original Webcameron site had been spoofed. Anousheh’s blog seems safe at the moment. Blogs are getting more and more mainstream – and, as such, spoofing is only going to increase as well….
U.S. homework outsourced as 'e-tutoring' grows
U.S. homework outsourced as ‘e-tutoring’ grows A report about a company, TutorVista, based in Bangalore India, that offers on-line tutoring to students. They started in the US about a year ago and have just expanded to the UK. I’m not sure what I think about it – the headline that CNET have used “homework outsourced”…
Flock – and Elgg
I have just been testing the ability of Flock to post to an Elgg blog – and it works! I’m hoping to get the MSc eLearning Students to use Elgg, rather than Blogger this academic year, and I was slightly worried that would mean that they wouldn’t be able to use Flock to integrate directly…