Move over Audacity?

Well not really because Audacity is a powerful audio editor but for making podcasts quickly and easily? Maybe? I’ve been having a play with Myna from a Aviary, which I picked up from Free Technology for Teachers. It’s pretty straight forward to use and is web based so that you…

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Remindo: A Ready to Wear Social Network for Swansea U?

I was intrigued enough by this blog post from Darrell Etherington at Web Worker Daily to sign up with remindo.com and in so doing, created a corporate social network for swansea.ac.uk! On the face of it, this new beta social network service seems to have a lot going for it.…

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Presenting the Web on the Web with Flowgram

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…

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The sweet spot in education

Martin Weller (from the Open University) has republished his presentation from a JISC Emerge conference on SlideShare and released it in a blog post entitled “Finding the Sweetspot Between Web 2 and Education“. The Sweet spot may actually be somewhere between formal instititutional e-learning systems and informal social networks and…

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PDP and Web 2.0 – Opportunity for Partnership

PDP and Web 2.0 – Opportunity for Partnership Wednesday 4th June 2008 University of Bradford The event was organised by the Centre for Recording Achievement. There were four sessions in the day, two of which covered practical examples of personal learning environments including e-portfolios for use with Personal Development Planning,…

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Lesson #1 Share

I discovered this presentation through the Google Reader suggestions feature. This had noted that I read a few educational blogs and pointed me to one I wasn’t reading: Ideas and Thoughts by Dean Shareski. Here I found this nice shortish presentation on Sharing that Dean has shared via SlideShare. I…

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Don't just sit there why don't you do some web 2.0?

Newly bookmarked is this presentation by Clay Shirky (author of Here Comes Everybody, The Power of Organizing Without Organizations) about how better to use your free time. (Edited transcript here).The mesaage is “Don’t just sit there watching TV, do something with your cognitive surplus.” Recorded at the 2008 San Francisco…

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