Archive for May 2006

Skype request please

It must be possible and would be incredibly useful if Skype automatically indicated when someone was already in a Skype conversation. This would save a lot of time refusing invites or toggling between conversations making apologies and explaining that you are already in a call.
It would also be nice if individuals could be added [...]

Some essential tools for distributed teams or save the planet!

Myself and many of my colleagues use an application called SubEthaEdit (a Mac application although there may be a PC equivalent) to author documents collaboratively in real time when working in different parts of the country - we are a remote team. Essentially, we can work on the same document in real time [...]

Web service slide show tool

A nice little web service brought to us from the Frappr team called slide.com This online album tool enables easy upload (irritatingly only one at a time), drag and drop re-ordering, a choice of transitions to create a web slide show like the one below. Viewers get to chose the speed and there [...]

Authoring undergraduate modules using open source methodology and wiki technology (Inspired by DEMOS)

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Reading a Demos pamphlet ‘Wide Open – Open source methods and their future potential’ set me thinking how we could utilise the ideas behind open source to develop a better learning experience for undergraduate students.
In September 2006, the Ultraversity project will have to re-author the entire set of modules on its Ba (Hons), [...]

A great thing about Skype

When I am listening to music on iTunes through my head set and I call someone using , iTunes pauses the track immediately. But this is the cool bit, when I hang up the audio gently fades back in, that is no sudden ‘thump’ of sound. Attention to detail at Skype mission HQ [...]

Media literacy UK children

Anyone interested in a ‘State of the Nation’ report on media literacy amongst children in the UK should take a look at this detailed audit brought to us by Ofcom. Apparently, they are the body responsible for the promotion of media literacy in the UK and the definition of which, according to Ofcom, [...]