April 15, 2010 TechCrunch was early to the news of Ning’s change of strategy, which at the time was still known only to a few members of the Ning creator’s network. Posterous announced that it would be building a Ning blog importer for free — but that still leaves all…
Just noticed this post (No more Ning) from James Clay which comments on this post on the Ning creator’s network which tell’s us that Ning is planning to phase out its free social networks to concentrate on their paid customers. The timing is immaculate: on the day as on which…
Cross posted from Fresh and Crispy Today I presented a “Lunch and Learn Session” to colleagues at our Staff Development Unit. Here are the slides which are hosted at Google Docs. The creation of a Ning network for SALT was a highlight of the session, and unfortunately that bit is…
(Warning, this post contains really bad puns!) EG-353 – an Engineering Research Project module, has been using the Ning social networking platform all year as part of an e-learning enhancement project on Peer Support and Assessment. On 15th April, I will be presenting a Staff Development Unit Lunch and Learn…
One outcome of the recent SALT launch was that Prof. Steve Wilks, Deputy Head of School and Head of Teaching in Engineering has started to use clickers and is very enthusiastic. I see this as the first green shoots of a recognition that there is something in this enhanced-learning stuff.…
Apart from providing context for the HEFCw-funded enhancement project “A Peer Support Platform”, the engineering dissertation module EG-353 Research Project provides many opportunities for trying out and sharing new and novel presentation media. One particular presentation, Research Tools and Techniques, is a show case of web 2.0 tools for managing…
Appropriately enough added to my own posterous.com blog posting about Sidewiki. Unexpected, but perhaps not suprising, was the discovery that as a Google “customer”, you can post your comments to your Blogger blog(s)! Twitter, Facebook and other social sharing possibilities surely must be close behind. in reference to: “In the…
Today I was asked to email some photos that I took of a band that played at the recent Swansea World Party Weekend and posted on Flickr. However, as each image is 2.6 Mbyte in size, I was reluctant to do this, and started to explain, in writing, how you…
Amit Agarwal of the Digital Inspiration blog has just published a Comparison of Online Screen Recording Tools: in which he compares the newly launched ScreenR (short for Screen + Recorder) screencasting tool from Articulate which is a free web based screencasting tool that lets you create up to 5-minute long…
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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