2006-02

The Technology Source Archives

link to website Published from 1997 to 2003, The Technology Source (ISSN 1532-0030) was a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical whose purpose was to provide thoughtful, illuminating articles that would assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating…

Right Ways and Wrong Ways of Podcasting in Education

link to website both an article and podcast providing some guidelines on podcasting in education, quite a bit of commonsense, and would provide a good summary for beginners in this area. Conversation between Susan Smith Nash and Rob Reynolds of Xplanazine .

Creativity, innovation, team building, leadership

link to website Idea Champions is a consulting and training company specializing in creativity, innovation, team building, leadership and out of the box products. Since 1986, we’ve been helping forward thinking organizations unleash their collective…

Project Management software options

via Lifehacker http://www.openworkbench.org/ registration required to download http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/ open source filing away for next time I go looking for an option

Five Steps to Designing Podcasts that Teach

link to website A short ‘howto’ guide to podcasting from the University of Wisconsin, including some advice which hits the mark to my mind… # Instead, talk as if you were speaking with a student sitting right in front of you in your office. # Express your…

Collections of Software

A couple of collections of software that have been circulating around the blogosphere. Portable applications can be loaded onto a USB drive meaning they can be used wherever needed. This can mean having your usual tools at your fingertips and not worrying so…

Social Bookmarking

link to pdf This looks like it would be a good reference/ handout for using with colleagues. I particularly liked the scenarios on the first page comparing two people - one using bookmarks based on their computer, and the other using web-based social…

Tagging

This week’s topic in Social Technologies 2 is Social Bookmarking - something that has fairly recently appeared on my radar through a combination of playing with feedbooks , tweaking category names in my blog, and then installing a keywords plugin on my shiny…

Another Flickr thingy

Slickr is a Flickr screen saver that shows images by: User - Favorites, Set, Tags, Contacts Group Everyone - Tags, Recent, Interestingness Local Must be something in the water this week, focussing on my stuff ‘marked as new’ in Bloglines about Flickr this…

Flickr as the introductory Social Software tool

link to website Alan Levine suggests that when introducing Social Software and Web 2.0 in demonstrations, a ‘less is more’ approach could be the key. “ There is a lot of social software one can do with just one little flickr.” I’ve experienced this myself in…

Flickr Advanced User Guide

link to website by Gina Trapani “Photo-sharing web application Flickr is like an onion: it has many, many layers to discover … time to point out some of the more advanced features of the amazing, ever-evolving (yet e-less) service.” This could be a great…

Related Entries in Wordpress

Link to the code to make a list at the bottom of a single post page in wordpress to other posts in the same category. It lists all posts in the category which may be a few too many. Need to see if I can work out how to just list the last 5 or so. Another…

Change to WordPress

Well, I finally made the move from Movable Type to WordPress . The only fiddly bit was moving my test install over to the right directory and changing some settings. So now I can have comments open and also there is a neat plugin for integrating Flickr…

50 Things you can do with RSS

http://timyang.com/wiki/doku.php?id=lists:t h ingsyoucandowithrss A list of 50 Things you can do with RSS as Tim Yang says “I use this list to convince people to start using an RSS feed reader. There’s more to RSS than just weblog syndication and news…

Professional Judgement resources

link to website Resources from the Professional Judgment in VET Forums conducted by Reframing the Future in August 2005. These look like they would be useful for workshops with staff about this topic. One thing that bugs me about the Reframing the Future…