Category Archives: tools

Blackboard 9.1 Tips – #1 Campus Pack

Posted on July 30, 2010 by cpjobling

Learning Objects Campus Pack, used to provide for blogs, wikis and podcasts in Swansea University’s VLE, was updated at the same time as Blackboard. If you have one or more Learning Objects blog(s), wiki(s) or podcast(s) in your Blackboard (learning … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome Web Development Tools

Posted on May 28, 2010 by cpjobling

If you are like me you like Google chrome because it’s fast, up-to-date, standards compliant and fast. But if you are a web developer, you need to use Firefox because it has Firebug, the best web development browser extension there … Continue reading →

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Ning announces new prices … initial comments

Posted on May 5, 2010 by cpjobling

Yesterday I received an email from Ning’s CEO Jason Rosenthal announcing the “exciting new developments in Ning” (which include the phasing out of free Ning) which will be rolled out in July. The mid-range price plan Ning-plus at $19.95 per … Continue reading →

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HTML, CSS and JavaScript for Apps … why didn’t I think of that?

Posted on March 31, 2010 by cpjobling

Recently I’ve been catching up with the the excellent new blog/podcast The Changelog which covers what’s fresh and new in open source Listening to episode 0.0.8 (you have to be a geek to appreciate the episode numbering!), I became aware … Continue reading →

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Firefox addins

Posted on June 19, 2007 by cpjobling

Richard McManus of the Read/WriteWeb blog has published an article on Firefox browser add-ins which includes the top ten list, links to reviews of the “officially” recommended add-ins and some discussion of what will be coming in Firefox 3. Comments … Continue reading →

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