Monthly Archives: January 2009
Google Notebook facing the chop
Google have announced that they are going to stop offering some services that are useful for education. One of these is Google Notebook. Here’s what Techcrunch have reported; Google Notebook will continue to function for current users, but will no … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
This is Hector Projector’s ‘It’s art’. (Hectornado on YouTube) who has created this hand drawn stop motion animation to his original composition. He represents talent and initiative in my opinion. He’s a guy living in Sweden, who, with the help … Continue reading
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YouTube into Powerpoint – Wikihow has advice
I have never successfully been able to get a YouTube .flv video to play in a PowerPoint presentation. We have a Library PowerPoint that runs through a large television and we have often wanted to embed videos from YouTube into this. … Continue reading
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A year ago today……..
Image by julkastro via Flickr It was a year ago today that I first put fingers to keypad and started to write this blog. So much has happened since then it seems like two years rather than just one. Then I … Continue reading
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Commoncraft – what to expect in 2009.
“In a word: Education.” Those are the words of Lee Lefever, and great words they are for all of us. Commoncraft’s incredibly effective Explanations in Plain English videos have been staple products for me as teaching tools ever since I’ve … Continue reading
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Learning, 21st Century style.
Image via Wikipedia Lately I’ve been trying to learn how to use Drupal. The motivation for this is my husband’s business that needs a web presence. I set something up in Google Sites but had a look at what some … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
Another improveverywhere effort to keep us smiling. This time they congregate at JFK airport to welcome back a stranger. The unsuspecting victims find themselves confronted with a crowd bearing signs, flowers and ballons. It’s magic watching the expressions on their … Continue reading
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Screentoaster – screencasts made easy.
Tonight I’ve been practising with Screentoaster, a screencast application that is still in beta. I had to apply for an invitation but that was no hassle. It came through within 15 minutes. It is very easy to use. I watched … Continue reading
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Trends to watch- how should educators respond?
I was reading an online article today from eweek.com called ‘Five trends to watch in 2009′. Their focus audience is small to medium size business. The five trends to watch as they saw it were; 1. Cloud Computing. 2. Virtualisation … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
This is One year in 40 seconds. It’s beautiful. It’s the work of eirikso (Eirik Solheim) from Oslo in Norway. All the images were taken at the same spot over the course of 2008 showing the changing seasons. Look at this … Continue reading
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