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Swansea University lecturer. Web enthusiast; dabbler in software engineering and control systems; PLENK2010 ds106 and cck11 participant; EG-353 coordinator. Squirrel and meerkat.
Category Archives: tools
Testing markdown
Just installed extended php-markdown plugin and this post is written in markdown as a test. Here’s some emphasis strong emphasis and code. A bulleted list another item A numbered list another item The code: Just installed extended [php-markdown](http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/) plugin and … Continue reading
My Top 10 Tools of 2010-11
Helen Davies, one of our Learning Support Team, has put out a call for the annual top 10 tools at Swansea University. A now annual survey that was inspired by Jane Hart’s long-running survey. As I’ve just come out of … Continue reading
You’ve got an “ology”?
Zaid Ali Alsagoff shared his discovery of schoology.com at last week’s Wednesday presentation on #CCK11 so I’ve posted the link in a blog post “You’ve got an “Ology”? on the Swansea Learning Lab community blog. We also discussed lecture capture … Continue reading
Tweetdeck Chrome App
I’ve just installed the new TweetdDeck app for Google Chrome and like what I see so far. It takes the “that’s so obvious, why wasn’t it done before” idea of combining (TweetDeck calls this blending) all your feeds into three … Continue reading
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My First Pencast
Last year, I bought a Livescribe Echo Smart Pen with the hope that it would be useful in teaching. Well, here the result of my first attempt to use it “in anger”. I used the pen to write out a … Continue reading
Ning Reunited
I’ve just joined the Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group (ELESIG) which is based around a Ning site (elesig.ning.com). After Chris Hall and David Williams launched a Gwella group, I’ve noticed an increase in activity and the … Continue reading
Lookback at 2010: Tool of the Year
In the media, as the shortest day approaches and with it the end of the old year, it’s traditional to look back. Here is the first of my retrospectives on 2010. My tool of the year is Pearltrees (http://www.pearltrees.com), which … Continue reading
Diaspora: one network to rule them all? Or one too many?
Alan Cann today announced the availability of the alpha release of the new distributed social network Diaspora. It’s seems to be available without the need for invitations and you can get an account by registering at http://diasp.org. Once registered, you’ll … Continue reading
Google Custom Search Engine for #PLENK2010
At Tony Hirst’s suggestion (see comments to previous post), I followed Alan Levine’s instructions and created a custom google search engine derived from Stephen Downes ‘feed of feeds’ OPML file. It took a couple of attempts as it’s not clear … Continue reading
schacon’s showoff at master – GitHub
Geek heaven … ShowOff — a keynote/powerpoint alternative that’s a Sinatra web app with slide markup in Markdown and special effects in JavaScript. I’ve got to try this! From Scott Chacon, GitHubber and author of Pro Git. Mentioned during an … Continue reading
