This short video explains in a simple way “federated access management (FAM)” (aka single sign-on). The UK version is called “The UK Access Management Federation” and as a federations is based upon trust between institutions in the issuing and administering of accounts according to agreed protocols. Shiboleth is one such technology that makes all this [...]
At the weekend I was back in my home village of Gowdall, Yorkshire. I was reminded of this this local phrase that I used to hear the old timers use when I was a kid ‘come fra together‘. It is used to describe something is no longer working or broken, etc. Literally ‘ come from [...]
For those of us who couldn’t face the prospect of installing X11 as a requirement for running OpenOffice on your Mac OS X, NeoOffice has produced a viable alternative (in my opinion) to Microsft for word processing and possibly spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs, but I haven’t tried these yet. A nice clean interface with [...]
last week I finally got my ALT certified member scheme. The process of gaining certification proved useful to me as it forced me to reflect on my work over the past 8 years in the field of learning technology. I reflect on the application process below, but this is the bonkers bit. For some reason [...]
