Google Notebook… It’s Google’s latest idea. Like many of their other ideas, they’ve taken something that already exists (in this case, Firefox’s QuickNote extension – and many others for example). They’ve then improved it; at least, I think that they have; others aren’t so sure. The advantages as far as I can see it are…
Having talked to various people about “Wiki on a Stick”, I thought I’d better have a go. The first page that I found was one at MediaWiki – which is the one I’d seen before. I intially tried the method with Uniform Server3_3, though that started to look rather fiddly (and quite large, given that…
Etre a usability company who have an eye tracking device, have been using it to study how users use a home page, if they’re just browsing. While the group testing the sites were a little more homogeneous than one might expect for sites such as Amazon, (18-40; experienced Internet users ) the results seem to…
Susan Sedro has an example Vaestro board up; it’s a board where you can record your thoughts. She’s posted the question “what’s your favourite children’s book?” It reads the whole thread once started, though I do have a few concerns re. accessibility. The poster only has to leave a written comment if they choose. While…
Clare Brett has the Powerpoint presentation of a session that she gave in Toronto recently. There is a good overview of why reading is so important today – including the ability to be critical about what is read. There’s a comprehensive list of references. via: Steven Downes…
Kate Britt’s site, though I’ve not visited for a while, has a lot of resources for online teaching, especially those who are using WebCT. I found an idea for putting RSS feeds of academic journals into a course, using Bloglines. (Powerpoint). That worked fine – I’ve created an extra bloglines account and have populated it…
Ben Werdmuller has put up some instructions for incorporating an external blog’s RSS feed to create content in an Elgg blog. I’d set up an Elgg blog a while ago, but, realistically, trying to maintain two blogs wasn’t possible. I like the way Elgg works, and, as I’ve already said, think that Elgg would be…
Since I originally mentioned the link in February, Sasan has added a Flash demo of it. Tama’s review (posted in February, but I’ve only just found it) of the Aperto link seems to indicate that it does have the functionality I’m looking for. His earlier comments about WebCT’s blogging tool covers most of the points…
DArcy Norman Someone mentioned that a student may have 5 different blogs – one for each class – and must post content to each blog in order to get credit for their work. And, at the end of the semester, the blogs are nuked from orbit. So, not only is a students work divided across…
blogwithoutalibrary.net » RSS2S Or, how to turn your last 10 RSS feeds into a slideshow using S5. If you go to Pascal’s site – and enter the feed of your site into the text box, then you can see the S5 presentation for your blog. If he’s put his code on the site, I’ve not…