This week I am in Munich at the IMPACT project (improving Access to Text) all-staff meeting. My colleague Ed Bremner and I have a busy couple of days. We are running three sessions. Each are a mixture of presentations and facilitated discussion. Although most of the session content is very project specific one will be […]
Yesterday I attended the JISC Digital Media Online training session on The Major Technical Issues Surrounding Screencasting, one of a series of four. The session, given in Elluminate by Zak Mensah and Gavin Brockis, peaked at 68 participants, so was very popular. For those who missed the session or want to catch up on previous […]
Jane Hart, Consultant, speaker and writer at Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, has created an excellent presentation on the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 as voted for by 500+ learning professionals worldwide. The presentation is available from Slideshare and embeded below. The tools list is perfect for online learning, collaboration and remote working, […]
Saying farewell to a colleague is never easy and it’s always good to have a little drink in their honour. On Friday we had a ‘virtual leaving do’ for a colleague and friend of mine: Ed Bremner. I first worked with Ed in 2003 when he was a staff member at TASI (Technical Advisory Service […]
This week is Open Access week #OAWeek and I felt that it would be appropriate for me to post something about the open access aspects of event amplification. I’m sure most of you are familiar with the concept of event amplification as I’ve blogged about it many a time but just to bring everyone up […]
JISC Digital Media are providing fortnightly one-hour online surgeries to answer any queries you have regarding digital media. The series begins this week and runs fortnightly, every other Wednesday, between 1.30pm and 2.30pm. They are starting off with screencasting: “The recent growth in educational content being delivered via computer screen – be it PowerPoint presentations, […]
A confession: I didn’t have an authorSTREAM account until last week. It was on my to do list but I just hadn’t got round to it! I just can’t believe I got away with it for so long. authorSTREAM is a lot like Slideshare. It allows you to share your PowerPoints on the Web and […]
Sometimes we need to show someone how to use an application or do something on their PC and explaining on the phone just doesn’t cut the mustard. Enter Screenjelly. Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it via Twitter or email. Use it to quickly share cool apps or software […]
