Archive for: June 2007

June 21, 2007

Federated access management - (federated Single-SignOn)

Filed under: Reviews, Technology - 21 Jun 2007

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 …

June 11, 2007

Come fra together - localised Yorkshire dialect for when something is broken or not working anymore

Filed under: Frippery - 11 Jun 2007

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’. …

June 5, 2007

NeoOffice (alternative to Microsft Office for Mac OS X)

Filed under: Reflections, Technology - 05 Jun 2007

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 …

June 3, 2007

Association for Learning Technology (ALT) certification scheme - slightly bonkers in one respect!

Filed under: Reviews - 03 Jun 2007

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 …