Archive for February, 2007
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
Great intro to web 2.0. As with the ever expanding internet the concept of web 2.0 seems to be evolving and has many different interpretations. This starts tad slow but the message towards the end fits in with the general overview of what’s happening to the internet. In particular it asks ‘Who will organise all […]
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Problem playing MP3 files? Here’s the solution
More of technical announcement rather than anything else. Staff have reported problems when trying to play MP3 files in Internet Explorer. Basically an error message appears citing an issue with QuickTime and the browser crashes. This problem relates to an issue of file type handling between Internet Explorer and QuickTime. It’s not a problem exclusive […]
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College class turns to virtual world
By Roberto Rocha
There’s alot of buzz and media interest in Second Life these days. Last year it was podcasting. Anyway here’s an interesting example of its’ use in a Canadian College. Some interesting reasons for its use over web seminars are given (in the distance learning context). For example “”You can interact visually with the […]
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Wikis: example of use and the enterprise perspective
Couple of articles on wikis. The first relates to how wikis are making an impact in the enterprise sector and details what they are and how they are used - a nice intro for those of you who are new to them.
“The idea: create a free-for-all collaboration zone, or team space, to better support development, […]
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Challenges of introducing new media
Familiar to anyone involve in pushing not only new technology but of new ideas as well. The comment about the superiority of preceeding media rings a few bells.
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Multi touch technology demo
I just had to post a link to the amazing demo. It showcases the multi touch technology which has been famously incorporated into Apples forthcoming iPhone.
Thanks to Peter Giles.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271543545/bctid422563006
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Something wiki this way comes
Good article from the Guardian. Not necessarily about wikis per se. Rather its’ focus is on wikipedia and student awareness of sourcing and referencing appropriate information. This is an increasing issue staff are faced with. With advent of websites driven by use generated content in which there is little or no creditable peer review (such […]
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How to make a great topic boring
This makes a great point. Student are, increasingly at primary and senior school level, using blogs, wikis, podcasting as part of their assessment. How are we going to incorporate these aspects in HE? There is a great deal of focus on elearning as a means to deliver course content but less attention is paid to […]
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The Penguin wikinovel experiment and the New Scholarship
This is something that I’m increasingly seeing reports on. Using wikis to mass collaborate on producing books (research and fiction).
In this case Penguin are allowing anyone to contribute to a novel in progress.
“PENGUIN THIS WEEK announced “a first-of-a-kind experiment in creative writing and collaboration based on the wiki principle”. As of Wednesday, would-be novelists can […]
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New guides on podcasting
I have written 2 new guides have been written on podcasting:
Podcasting: how to subscribe to podcasts in 5 minutes: how to use iTunes to subscribe to podcasts (how-to-subscribe-podcast-5-mins.doc)
Podcasting: how to reduce audio file size in 5 minutes: how to use iTunes to reduce file size, (useful if the file size is over the accepted limit […]
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