Once again it’s time for the BETT Show. The self-styled “largest educational technology show in the world.” For the first hour or so I wondered what on earth I was doing there as I heard one salesman after another explain how their product is loved by students, will improve their…
On reading my RSS feeds today, I came across Flowgram, a new online presentation application that combines elements of SlideShare (it can handle PowerPoint presentations and audio narration) with a feature that allows live web pages and RSS feeds to appear in the presentation. The site itself describes a flowgram…
In preparation for the up-coming new academic year, I’ve been checking out the latest versions of tools in the Zoho Office suite. As a e-learning application, the notebook application seems particularly worth a longer look. Essentially a container for web objects presented within a notebook idiom, Zoho Notebook makes it…
I was writing a fairly positive review of Windows Live Writer, a new blogging tool from Microsoft, when it crashed on me before I could publish the article! Nonetheless, I was still sufficiently impressed to persevere. The good news is that Live Writer does most things that you’d expect a…
An interesting new tool has been released on the interweb. It’s a web service called goosh.org that provides a UNIX (windows command prompt) shell-like interface to Google search. Thanks to Stefan Tilkov for pointing this out.
Another potentiallu useful extension for OpenOffice is the Open Office Google Docs Integrator (OoGdocsIntegrator) which according to the home page: [provides] integration with GoogleDocuments and Zoho.[and] Features: Upload of (multiple) documents (Text, Spreadsheet, Presentation) to Zoho Download of documents (Text, Spreadsheet) from Zoho Upload of (multiple) documents (Text, Spreadsheet, Presentation)…
Just spotted on Lifehacker.com is this announcement of an extension from Sun Microsystems that allows you to edit a MediaWiki page from within OpenOffice. MediaWiki is one of the most powerful wiki tools available (it powers Wikipedia) but it also has the most complex syntax. Because it works like a…
This is a question for the community: what screen casting tools do you use and which would you recommend? The context for this is that as a teacher of computer things, I watch a lot of how-to videos that are made available as screencasts, and I’ve even add a go…
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