Google App Inventor. So easy a cat can do it?

According to Google, the Google App Inventor is built on the idea that you do not need to be a developer to build great mobile applications. Instead of code, App Inventor allows you to visually design applications and use blocks to specify application logic.Use the GPS-location sensor to build location…

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Who needs a translator?

Problems with getting web pages translated before they can go live? Can’t understand that Hindi web site? Google say they have the answer. I’m not really sure if it works though. I’ve added the script to one of the Learning Lab pages http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk/lta If you speak another language, have a…

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Google Reader for Beginners

Any blogger worth his or her salt will eventually need to make use of an RSS Feed Aggregator to keep up to date with all the information that’s out there. My personal favourite is Google Reader, which I use over breakfast instead of a newspaper to catch up on interesting…

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Do you want to be friends?

We’ve added a couple of widgets from Google Friends Connect. Friends Connect has various social networking widgets that can be added to any web site with the idea, according to Google, that “Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply…… with each other.” You’ll need a Google account to…

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Something for the weekend!

Adding an announcement to one of my Blackboard sites with the new Google Chrome browser I noticed that the text area control has a grow-box feature. This enables you to drag a text area to make it bigger which is particularly useful if you have to enter a lot of…

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Going Global, Going Public

Dean Shareski an Educational Technologist and advocate of the educational benefits of on-line sharing (See: Lesson #1: Share), has posted another pod- and slide cast in which he discusses some issues around being on-line, dispels some myths and considers the advantages of sharing. The presentation has a primary school perspective,…

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Oh my goosh!

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.

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