blogsperiment: Blogs versus Discussion Boards Quite a good overview of the differences between Blogs and Discussion boards. One point raised is that a single person can cause havoc on a board, whereas with Blogs, even if you have a group of related blogs (all personal), then the activities of one user won’t impact on the…
Blogging IT and EDucation
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,…
Search Engine Interfaces
Search Engine Interfaces. A review of search engines, however rather than the standard “number of hits”/ “accuracy of results”, this concentrates on the interface – both for inputting the query, and, probably more usefully outputting the results. They’ve looked at a variety of search engines, some being new to me, while others were, I suspect…
Skills for Access : The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Accessible Multimedia for e-learning
Skills for Access : The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Accessible Multimedia for e-learning Title says all, really! Focusses though on the “How to” and has case studies, rather than just being “you musts”….
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….
Lanny on Learning Technology
Lanny on Learning Technology A blog from a learning technologist. He seems to have lots of ideas, so probably worth following….
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….
Migrating from WebCT to Moodle.
Auricle (Derek Morrison) reports on an interview with Morag Munro, about Dublin City’s migration from WebCT to Moodle. They actually made the move a couple of years ago. The interview is available as a Podcast. (Recorded from a Skype conversation – see previous post)…
Recording Skype
AuricleWith the growth of VoIP, Derek Morrison has been looking at how Skype conversations might be captured, and then used later for teaching. He looks at several options for the capture, finally choosing the simplest as the best….
Catching up!
The plethora of posts today was simply a case of going through all those things that I’ve been bookmarking etc., in the past month, while getting caught up with marking and all those other end of term things….