link to website Idea Champions is a consulting and training company specializing in creativity, innovation, team building, leadership and out of the box products. Since 1986, we’ve been helping forward thinking organizations unleash their collective brilliance and achieve extraordinary results.
Also see Articles, Essays, and Rants from this website. Next time I’m planning a workshop I […]
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Published from 1997 to 2003, The Technology Source (ISSN 1532-0030) was a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical whose purpose was to provide thoughtful, illuminating articles that would assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations.
This Web site maintains all of the articles […]
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both an article and podcast providing some guidelines on podcasting in education, quite a bit of commonsense, and would provide a good summary for beginners in this area. Conversation between Susan Smith Nash and Rob Reynolds of Xplanazine.
A couple of collections of software that have been circulating around the blogosphere.
Portable applications can be loaded onto a USB drive meaning they can be used wherever needed. This can mean having your usual tools at your fingertips and not worrying so much about compatibility of files.
“Portable Apps Suite™ is a collection of portable apps […]
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http://www.openworkbench.org/ registration required to download
http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/ open source
filing away for next time I go looking for an option
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A short ‘howto’ guide to podcasting from the University of Wisconsin, including some advice which hits the mark to my mind…
# Instead, talk as if you were speaking with a student sitting right in front of you in your office.
# Express your passion, enthusiasm and excitement for the content material in your voice […]
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This looks like it would be a good reference/ handout for using with colleagues. I particularly liked the scenarios on the first page comparing two people - one using bookmarks based on their computer, and the other using web-based social bookmarking processes.
Slickr is a Flickr screen saver that shows images by:
User - Favorites, Set, Tags, Contacts
Group
Everyone - Tags, Recent, Interestingness
Local
Must be something in the water this week, focussing on my stuff ‘marked as new’ in Bloglines about Flickr this last few days…
This week’s topic in Social Technologies 2 is Social Bookmarking - something that has fairly recently appeared on my radar through a combination of playing with feedbooks, tweaking category names in my blog, and then installing a keywords plugin on my shiny new WordPress install.
Over the past 2 - 3 years in my blog, the […]
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Alan Levine suggests that when introducing Social Software and Web 2.0 in demonstrations, a ‘less is more’ approach could be the key. “There is a lot of social software one can do with just one little flickr.”
I’ve experienced this myself in workshops where I combined Blogging and RSS using Bloglines. One or the […]
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by Gina Trapani
“Photo-sharing web application Flickr is like an onion: it has many, many layers to discover … time to point out some of the more advanced features of the amazing, ever-evolving (yet e-less) service.”
This could be a great resource for using when introducing Flickr to teachers who already know a bit […]
Well, I finally made the move from Movable Type to WordPress. The only fiddly bit was moving my test install over to the right directory and changing some settings. So now I can have comments open and also there is a neat plugin for integrating Flickr photos. Another plugin for adding keywords to posts is […]
Link to the code to make a list at the bottom of a single post page in wordpress to other posts in the same category.
It lists all posts in the category which may be a few too many. Need to see if I can work out how to just list the last 5 or so. […]
http://timyang.com/wiki/doku.php?id=lists:thingsyoucandowithrss
A list of 50 Things you can do with RSS as Tim Yang says “I use this list to convince people to start using an RSS feed reader. There’s more to RSS than just weblog syndication and news aggregation”
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Resources from the Professional Judgment in VET Forums conducted by Reframing the Future in August 2005. These look like they would be useful for workshops with staff about this topic.
One thing that bugs me about the Reframing the Future website is that the URL in the address bar does not reflect where […]
