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Curating the web: flipboard

Posted by packroyd on February 6th, 2012

Curation is one of those words that have morphed from having a layer of dust on them, barely used apart from in very dry academic sense, into a fashionable trend .  It is a recognition of the fact that in order to make sense of the avalanche of information we now have to deal with we need to be selective in the sources we pay attention to , and do some work to assemble them.  So it's a way of putting together information from your ch

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Speech recognition in Windows and Apple

Posted by packroyd on January 30th, 2012

Is speech recognition software finally coming of age?

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mentormob

Posted by packroyd on January 23rd, 2012

As one door closes...

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learnclick

Posted by packroyd on January 16th, 2012

An easy to use online cloze test/gap fill creator is available at http://learnclick.com/.

As the site says,
"Take any text, mark the words you want to learn and learnclick.com transforms your text into a cloze dletion test"

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Portable apps

Posted by packroyd on January 10th, 2012

One of the (many) popular sessions in our elearning training day was on Access Apps, (thanks due to Catherine and Malcolm at the RSC Eastern) a suite of free apps around the theme of accessibility, including text to speech software to speak digital content, mindmapping, magnifiers, and a host of others.  The great advantage of this is the portability this gives you, so you can work with your fa

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Google graph plotter

Posted by packroyd on January 4th, 2012


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Happy Christmas to all my readers

Posted by packroyd on December 19th, 2011

Regifting again... pre-used, but it is still useful to know how easy it is to make an animated gif with a webcam, so here goes...

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fakebook

Posted by packroyd on December 12th, 2011

That's faKebook, not facebook.

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a web whiteboard

Posted by packroyd on December 5th, 2011

A web whiteboard pure and simple:  http://awwapp.com.  Just what it says on the can, and you can get cracking using it without even signing up.  Start  drawing, and share the URL with others and collaborate.  You can save the finished board as an image (png) file. Perfect for touch screen mobile devices.  Really must improve my life drawing skills...

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LiveMinutes

Posted by packroyd on November 28th, 2011

LiveMinutes is a new, free web conferencing software, incorporating a whiteboard, document sharing with audio and video. You can also incorporate Skype.

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