Lies, damn lies and your on-line identity

Some might say … It is an all too frequent story nowadays in the Daily Mail or one of the other more excitable, right of centre, daily rags. Some hapless individual has been taken in by a tracksuited ne’er-do-well in a trailer park in Idaho, posing as Miss California on…

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Mixed Ink: More than a wiki?

Mixed Ink is a collaboration tool which allows several people to collaborate on and refine documents, policies, reviews….. I could write a lengthy explanation but it’s better to watch the video. Who needs sharepoint? 😉 MixedInk Demo from MixedInk on Vimeo. Find out more at http://mixedink.com/main.php

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Swansea Learning Lab is now on Twitter!

In order to try and make Swansea Learning Lab a bit more dynamic, we have set up an account for the Learning Lab on Twitter. If any of you are fellow twitterers, then please follow us @swanlearninglab or send messages to @swanlearninglab. We hope to tweet new tools, updates etc…

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Video blogging

Christopher Ming Ryan writes about how to use video blogs (v-blogs): “4 Mistakes Video Bloggers Make and How You Can Avoid Them”.

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Web 3.0 has arrived?

Several people are getting quite exited about the new version of the Opera web browser, which includes something called Opera Unite. Stephen Downes goes as far as to call it the start of Web 3.0. There is a good overview at Mashable.Together with Google Wave, is the a significant shift…

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Pictures from SALT

After quite a delay here is a link to the photos I took at the first Swansea Acadmy of learning and Teaching (SALT) event. All pictures released under creative commons.

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Digital Britain

The Digital Britain report is now available from the Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS). Elements include: A three-year National Plan to improve Digital Participation Universal Access to today’s broadband services by 2012 Next Generation fund for investment in tomorrow’s broadband services Digital radio upgrade by the end of…

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Flowgram

Some of you will know that I was an enthusiastic user of the Flowgram on-line presentation tool. I made several presentations and web tours with it this session, including Effective Presentations (reported in Fresh and Crispy), How to Cite, Research Techniques and Tools – The Presentation, Introducing Blackboard, Pebble Pad…

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To Tweet or not to Tweet

The BBC has reported on a Harvard study of the use of Twitter (“Twitter hype punctured by study“, June 9, 2009). Here are some findings: “Just 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content” “more than half of all people using Twitter updated their page less than…

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