Well I’ve been through most of the posts now, and done some preliminary categorising. I’m not 100% sure that I’ve got it quite right, it’s trying to get the balance between not too many categories, and not having them too broad….
Blogging IT and EDucation
Bridging the digital divide
An article in Guardian Unlimited | looks at the (possibility of) a $100 laptop aims to bring equal technology opportunities to children in the developing world. Negroponte, from MIT, is hoping with collaboration from Samsung and others to have a prototpye ready for September. In order to minimise cost, they’ll be linux based. To minimise…
Hello WordPress!
Well I’ve finally managed to export from Blogger to WordPress. Setting up WordPress was very easy. However, trying to get the posts from Blogger to here wasn’t quite so easy. It kept getting to 50% and giving me an error. However, it seems that it was a timing out issue. … The old blog will…
another anime/life blog
another anime/life blogI’ve just found this on a link from TabletPC Buzz – it’s an example of a blog by a student, who’s using his tablet in Class a lot. However, the reason for putting it in, is to give an example of the way he’s commenting on what he’s learning in class. (It’s an…
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….
NewsMap
I’ve just found another program put together by Marumushi – who have done FlickrGraph, which I’ve already mentioned. This one is NewsMap – which shows different news items round the world. It’s presented in a different manner than FlickrGraph – and worth a look….
lecture from hell
jill/txt lecture from hell Well I’ve not had anything quite that bad! THough just hoping that I won’t have something like that on Friday – let’s hope that we have got the software sorted for the DISIP tutorial though….
The VLE of the Future.
Scott Wilson (from CETIS) has an overview of what he sees as being the VLE of the future … he feels that The VLE of the future will look less like a Content Management System or Intranet, and more like a cross between Shrook, SubEthaEdit,XJournal, iChat, iCal, and iTunes (well, on a Mac at least)….
Network EducationWare – Open Source Synchronous A/V Conferencing Software
Scott Leslie – who runs EdTechPost, is very impressed with Network EducationWare, an open source conferencing system developed by George Mason University. It includes the ability to share slides etc for a presentation, a text based chat, and a whiteboard. There is audio – both to record in advance with the slides, or for an…
Fangs
Fangs is a Firefox extension that will let you see a visual representation of a web page – structured as a screen reader for visually impaired users would hear the information. It’s still in beta, so there are a few issues. It’s a lot cheaper than buying JAWS, the most used screen reader, but it…