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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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Photo Albums in PowerPoint

Posted by packroyd on November 21st, 2011

I am grateful to Dave Foord for his video below explaining how to use the photo album feature  in PowerPoint 2007 to quickly and easily upload a whole bunch of large photos into a PowerPoint show, then compress them to a reasonable size, suitable for then sharing via email or a VLE such as Blackboard.  Given that often public sharing is not appropriate in education, and that Blackboard is not very friendly towards images, this is a very useful procedure.  It is also probably worth mentioning to colleagues here at City College that you can still right click on a picture (or pictures) in a folde

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