tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82443112011-09-15T05:21:23.849+01:00e-learning news and reviews for the adult and community learning sectorTheresahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15378545226564945789noreply@blogger.comBlogger1391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244311.post-46077042201116373902008-01-23T14:52:00.000Z2008-01-23T16:00:14.717Z

I have moved. Well, I've set up a new blog, because I changed jobs recently. However, my new blog, 'wobble' still has articles of interest to anyone interested in the adoption of e-learning so I hope you'll stop by.Like ace:uk, wobble also has news feeds, resources and a wealth of information all of which you can access online for free. You can of course, also request your own free regular email

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Yahoo! Mindset applies a new twist on searching. It sorts search results for your query into commercial or non-commercial (informational) results, based on whether you're shopping or seeking information.It has a slider on the page, which you control to decide how you want your results sorted. The midpoint of the slider represents the default setting, and as you move the slider right, toward "

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This article has a really good tip for distributing photos on a CD, complete with a built in slide show and a customized photo CD cover (using free software called Picasa.) It’s really easy to do and allows you to create a really professionally packaged CD in a matter of minutes. I tried it earlier and it really is simple yet effective. The article itself explains how it’s done.But as well as

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I mentioned wikibooks last week in a post that outlined several projects online that anyone can edit and contribute to. And yesterday, Stephen Downes signposted this article by Robert Brumfield, Assistant Editor, eSchool News which discusses wikibooks in more detail.Key features of the article for me were as follows: Because the content is freely licensed, "it can be freely adapted by teachers

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My mate Johnny M is both a keen photographer and a keen Flickr user, uploading high quality photographs to the web for the world to see.He has very kindly made his entire collection of over 1,000 photos available for you to use in training notes, presentations, posters etc. All he asks is that if you use one of his pictures you credit it to him. (Thanks John, you're very kind!)I recently used a

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On Thursday this week (27th October) launch activities are set to begin for a new initiative designed to protect users online.Get Safe Online will provide independent, expert advice for citizens and small businesses on how to protect themselves against threats such as viruses, spam, spyware and online fraud.It should also be a valuable resource tool for learning centres, providing information

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We began with a directory of UK and Ireland based edubloggers. Now thanks to Josie Fraser there’s also a map of exactly where we are. So ifyou’re keen to see who is based near you and writing about ways of using technology to support teaching and learning, or you're an edublogger of any shape, size or persuasion.....head on over to Frappr to have a look or leave your details!This will form a

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Following a dispute over the Gmail trademark, ‘Gmail’ has been renamed to Google Mail in the UK. (A while back, I was dishing these free Gmail email invites for anyone who wanted a free web based account with a whopping 2.6 gigabytes of storage.) Now, they are no longer issuing new @gmail.com addresses – any new addresses will be @googlemail.com instead.For existing Gmail users, although the name

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Forty public library services across England have recently received a share of a £750,000 ICT cash boost from the UK online Public Libraries Challenge Fund. The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and the University for Industry (Ufi) awarded the grants to enhance the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) provision of public libraries to local communities, particularly

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I wrote previously about ‘more free e-learning materials coming to a centre near you’, referring to National Learning Network (NLN) materials that were being written specifically for Adult and Community Learning. These covered five new areas:Family LearningLearning to LearnESOLMaking Learning Work for YouModern Foreign LanguagesFollowing eager anticipation, pre-release versions of some of these

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I’ve recently promised several people links to Wikipedia and related sites so thought I’d post them here instead. These are all collaborative projects online that anyone can edit and contribute too: Wikipedia - The biggest open access encyclopaedia on the internet. It's multilingual, has over 750,000 articles and is still growing! Wikibooks - Free textbooks and manuals Wikibooks has a collection

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Building Better Practice from Excalibur, which I mentioned recently, now offers guidance on improving your organisation’s performance in three new areas (for Adult and Community Learning):· Achievement and standards · Learning and assessment· Support for learnersYou can now find information on things to take into account regarding individual learning plans, retention rates, on- and off-the-job

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I have changed my email subscriber service today from Bloglet to FeedBlitz. Seems Bloglet hasn’t been working of late and since I have no guarantee that it will spring back to life I’ve had to switch.There will be no change for existing subscribers – you will still be notified of updates in the same way but you'll see a slightly different layout for the emails which will now be delivered by

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If you're an IT tutor, I'm sure there are times when you want to ask someone’s advice about something to do with your teaching. And wouldn't it be great if there was someone to hand who not only understood your situation, but would also share their resources, answer your questions and give you free advice and support?Well there is. Computer tutors – you're not alone!Here in the UK we have a

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Are you a two-finger typist? I am. And although I'd love to touch type, I just don’t seem to find the time to commit to regular lessons to learn. However I've recently discovered a very simple, free, online typing tutor that I'm gonna TRY to use on a fairly regular basis. I reckon that if I can just do a short burst each day I'll soon pick it up, and it will save me loads of time in going back

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I spent some time last week trying out a new way to share and edit documents securely online. This was using a (currently free) piece of software called Writely.Writely is a web word processor that allows multiple users to share and edit a word document on the web using only a browser - you don’t need a word processor at all.Here's how it works:First, you create a document: Either by typing it in

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Upcoming date for your diary: Next week (8-16 October 2005) is National Family Learning Week.‘Thousands of venues, from shopping centres and leisure centres to schools and libraries, zoos and parks to museums and galleries, will be hosting events for this national campaign. Many of the activities are free and open to all age groups. So you could end up telling stories with your toddlers, salsa

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Do you use Word or PowerPoint to create drag and drop exercises for your learners? Then you will just love Picture Grid Editor/Creator. (Click to log in as guest user.) Picture Grid Editor/Creator is a tool for creating drag and drop learning objects (like the example here). I liked it because it’s really effective and dead easy to use.I had a go at creating a drag and drop learning object myself

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An article in the Guardian this week explored the use of Moodle in education (well in schools, but it’s the same virtual learning environment).It focused partly on the work of Darren Smith, a teacher in Teeside who uses Moodle with his students. His was a school environment but here's where the flexibility of sharing resources comes in - in his e-subjects he offers a comprehensive list of mostly

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Not strictly e-learning but a novel way (excuse the pun) of choosing books you might like to read based on your preferences.When you know the title of a book, it's easy to find it by searching the shelves in a bookshop or library or by using a catalogue or an online bookstore. But what if you are like me, the sort of reader who likes to choose by browsing round a little and seeing what tempts you

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I’ve been looking at accessibility lately, and found TechDis staff packs to be a really good source of advice and useful information. They include lots of practical solutions, and show simple techniques that can be employed very easily to make learning with technology more accessible.Each pack can also be used as the basis of a training session or incorporated into a staff development programme.

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As a general rule I don’t tend to use ‘my favourites’ anymore (I use Furl mostly, so that I can share and access my bookmarks from anywhere) but I was surprised to discover recently that I still had 350+ sites stored as Internet Explorer bookmarks.I didn’t want to delete them but wanted to quickly know which of them were still valid without going through them individually. So I was pleased to

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Looking for examples of good practice to help you overcome some of the challenges in teaching and learning?ALI (The Adult Learning Inspectorate) have just added another 17 examples of good practice to its Good Practice database. Excalibur, the quality improvement arm of the ALI, now shares 220 proven methods and techniques found during ALI inspections - complete with suggestions on how to adapt

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Yahoo is testing a new instant search feature that'll give instant information without having to load a results page. Just type your search term in one letter at a time and see the results instantly change as you do. Might have to try a few different terms to see it work but try it out for yourself here.Via ResearchBuzz

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It's been a while since I last posted anything, but I've been doing some 'blog-housekeeping' type stuff behind the scenes. After today's posts I reckon I should be fairly up to date though.I've now closed the online poll that asked how often you want to receive your email updates. Once again many thanks to all of you who voted! Your feedback definitely counts and I hope it will shape ace:UK into

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It’s not like Microsoft to give us much for free but it seems they have. Free training materials. Yes, that was FREE training materials.Why are they free?Apparently because they (as in Microsoft) "…want you to love Office. To use it to work better and faster. To understand how it can save you time and trouble. The more you know about it, the more it can do for you…" I suspect it might also have

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Josie Fraser recently ‘stumbled across these very handy and recently updated guides from Educause.’The Educause Learning Initiatives Seven Things you should know about... series provides concise information on emerging learning practices and technologies. Each brief (in pdf format) focuses on a single practice or technology and describes what it is, how it works, where it is going, and why it

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Read an interesting post the other day about what a typical dream classroom might contain. It was useful to read David Warlicks suggested technology shopping list for a single classroom and interesting to read the posts comments with its suggested additions too. For example Stephen Downes suggested…"…There should be two lists. One list would describe basic equipment for a student (/ information

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Had a good time up in Manchester last week but have loads to catch up on now. When I have lots to do I tend to have lots of post it notes floating around too, so today I’ve decided to share some of my ‘post-it-note-type' tools with you.The first one is WebNote. This allows you to quickly note something on a kind of electronic sticky note, which will be shared in an online workspace. This is great

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Are you a tutor or trainer looking for work? Do you have…Three years experience of working in adult and community learning Experience of using technology in teaching and learningTraining the trainer's qualification or experience of teacher or staff training Then NIACE might have just the job for you.As an extension of their existing E-Guides programme NIACE have developed an ‘E-Guides and

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The second of todays 'post it note type tools...'Despite working on a PC which has task lists and a calendar and reminders and all the other bells and whistles to keep me organised my monitor is always covered with 'post it' notes. They constantly litter my desk as they become unsticky, they fall off, get knocked off, get covered over or whatever. But no. Not any more…I’ve upgraded. To

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Next month the UK will celebrate Black History Month (BHM). This is an annual awareness campaign to highlight African and Caribbean history and heritage, and to promote a greater understanding of the UK's diverse cultural heritage. Throughout October communities right across the UK will be hosting a wide range of events and activities to entertain, inform and educate.You can learn more about what

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These sites are not new, but they are sites that I like and wanted to share..."10x10 is an interactive exploration of what's happening in the news all over the world. Every hour the site collects 100 frequently used words and pictures from international news sources and presents them as one large patchwork image. You can then click on an individual picture to learn more about the story behind it.

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Just a quick update re blog activity this upcoming week. I don’t expect I'll post anything over the next few days (Josie Fraser lured me up to Manchester with the promise of a free pint!) I’ll still try to reply to my emails though so if you have queries (or resources to support Gujarati speaking learners) do still get in touch.On the subject of email, you may have noticed my comment regarding

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I was asked recently if I knew of any resources that would support a group of Gujarati speaking learners who were learning IT. I know of Becta’s Say IT sheets (which translate common IT terms from English into other languages) and a few other bits and bobs, but other than that I was a bit stumped.So I tried ACLearn’s Learning Content Resource Exchange, Ferl's Teaching and Learning Resource Bank

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There's been a lot in the news this week about the new free 'Google Talk' which was unveiled on Wednesday (24th Aug).Google Talk is a downloadable Windows application that lets you send instant messages or talk to other people for free, anywhere in the world. Calls are made through a regular computer using voice technology. All you need to use it is an Internet connection, a microphone, a speaker

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I said recently that I would refine the email subscriptions to make sure that their frequency suits what most of you want. I also promised to show you how you can set up your own online polls for free, so here we are.(Before I begin, I would like to say that using RSS is an even more effective way for you to receive news updates, but since so many of you are subscribed by email I’ll stick with

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Last week I did a round up of some ace:uk golden oldies (Part 1), which was a list of things that I had previously wrote about on here but not put in my archive of favourites.Here's the follow up, as promised - ace:UK Free Software Round Up (Part 2).(The links below will take you to the original articles where you can get to the software directly). Furl is a free service that saves a personal

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"Every object tells a story is an interactive venture from Culture Online, the V&A, Channel 4, Ultralab and three regional museums. It aims to inspire a cross-section of society to become part of a living, evolving, online collection of stories and memories.A national storytelling extravaganza, the project will provide an intimate social - and even emotional - snapshot of Britain today. The site

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There have been quite a few new subscribers to ace:UK recently (which I suspect might have something to do with the popularity of Snippy!) So I'd just like to take this opportunity to say ‘Hello and welcome!'If you’re new and you're curious you can find out a bit more about me on my profile page which I've just updated. It's only a very brief intro but if you have questions about me or about ace:

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Anne Davis at TechNews signposted this internet search engine for finding free-to-use stock photographs and images. She wrote...“Yotophoto is a search engine for finding free-to-use stock photographs and images. There are different licenses with different restrictions, but all images are free. They've indexed over 100,00 images. I like that you can see the licensing immediately when the pictures

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I’ve had a couple of recent queries about Snippy (the screen capture tool which I mentioned last week) so I’ve decided to answer here in case anyone else has the same question. It seems it’s not clear how to access it once it’s been downloaded so using Snippy for illustrations, here’s a quick guide.I installed the software to my desktop just to make it easier to access, so if you have done the

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I've been thinking more about free software these past few days. Not specifically Open Source Software, but the kind of free resources that are referred on to us, or those we just stumble upon on the web. The little things that make teaching (and sometimes life) easier.In the last year alone, I've tried loads of great free stuff. Most of these things I've shared with you through my public archive

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Worth noting as a date for your diary: September 10th 2005 is worldwide Software Freedom Day.“Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a global grassroots effort to promote public awareness and use of Free and Open Source Software. Over 70 teams joined the celebration in 2004, organising a range of events at schools, universities and public places.” The SFD teams are again inviting you to participate by

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Do you often need to capture an image of what's on your screen or just a part of the screen, to put in presentations, user guides or tutorials? Then here’s a pretty nifty little tool that might come in useful.Snippy allows you to capture a selection of the screen by drawing either freehand, or using a rectangular selection tool. This could include text or images or both (although whatever is

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Josie Fraser is organising an edublogger meet up in Manchester on Tuesday night, 6th September. This co-incides with the first day of the ALT-C conference but the meet ups for anyone interested in edublogging; non-conference attendees are also welcome. Find out more, get maps and details or sign up over at EdTechUK.(If you can make it I’ll see you there…!)Josie has also now set up a wiki, which

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“Google offers more than a dozen services, but most are hidden. The GoogleX interface makes all of Google's goodies--such as Gmail, Froogle, Maps, and more--accessible via a nifty Mac OS X-like toolbar. Originally designed by a Google researcher, the toolbar disappeared shortly after being posted on the Google Labs site (most likely due to objections by Apple), but not before some plucky Netizens

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Do you have digital photos that you want to show or share online? Here's a comprehensive list of websites that provide online picture sharing.via JCEL

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I posted an article recently about the release of Version 3 of AcceLerator, which at the time was new. Well it seems that now it's new AND improved!It had stated previously on Acce-Lerator’s website that the software ‘... was available to Adult and Community Learning (ACL) tutors but you must have an ac.uk address to register.’ Unfortunately many tutors in ACL don't have these kind of email

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I was asked about Crossword creation software this morning so I thought I'd just quickly signpost one I've used previously. I know alot of ACL staff use Hot Potatoes which is great, but EclipseCrossword is also a fast and free way to create crosswords.You'll need to install it but then you just give it a list of words and clues, and it does the rest. You can save, print, import into Word/

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Stephen Downes wrote a really good guide to evaluating websites a few days ago that I wanted to share with you here. In 'Principles for Evaluating Websites' he asks…“How do you know whether something you read on the web is true? You can’t know, at least, not for sure. This makes it important to read carefully and to evaluate what you read...”It’s a very good piece (and is very comprehensive) so

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Seems it’s a time for new releases – the new OpenCD was released last week and a new version v3.0 of Acce-Lerator’s free e-learning authoring system was released today.Acce-Lerator is an online tool that allows you to upload things such as Word documents, photographs and diagrams and mix these with existing e-learning modules and websites to create complete courses. These courses can then be

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I said I’d update you on the TechDis toolbar once I’d had a chance to have a play with it - well I have now and I must say my first impressions are good.It installed really quickly with no fuss at all. It’s also very intuitive and, to use a common phrase ‘does exactly what it says on the tin.’ It zooms in and out magnifying the page, no problem. You can also display page text in the following

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An even newer release of TheOpenCD - Version 3.0, became available this week. This is a collection of FREE and open source software suitable for Windows.It includes (as part of its OpenOffice)… A word processor, Writer - for producing documents, reports, newsletters, and brochures. A spreadsheet called Calc with sophisticated tools for calculation, data analysis and visualisation and built-in

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Back in September I mentioned how the RDN was developing more free online tutorials for the Adult and Community Learning sector, as part of their Virtual Training Suite.These provide a great way to help learners brush up on their internet skills while looking at specially selected web sites in subject areas they are interested in. These new tutorials are hobbies and interest based too which is

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TechDis have just released their User Preferences Toolbar which provides tutors and learners with a simple way of imposing accessibility preferences onto potentially any web page. This free toolbar offers:a selection of high contrast and pale colour schemes to choose froma choice of serif and non-serif fonts a handy zoom function that magnifies the web page I haven’t tried it out yet but do plan

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There is still a final opportunity to apply for the last phase of E-guides training in your area.The clock is ticking, but bookings are still being taken for the final phase (September – December of this year) so if you haven’t signed up yet its not too late!A full schedule and further details about the programme are available on NIACE’s website. You can also get more info, e-guides resources

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The Journal recently published a really good article by Laura Turner on 20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have. It’s an American journal (which is why it keeps referring to educators!) but the list of skills that it suggests us ‘educators’ need are becoming pretty much the same here in the UK.The article says that...“During the last 15 years, we in education have moved at light speed in

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“Fears that English college students will lose out on new developments in computer technology have been fuelled by the Learning and Skills Council's decision to slash its funding to the joint information systems committee (JISC).In what some see as proof of financial crisis, the LSC is cutting £6.5m of its annual subscription to the body, which offers higher and further education establishments

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There was more in the news last Friday about the benefits of using Open Source Software (OSS). This BBC article focussed on the increasing impact of OSS specifically in schools, but the same could easily apply to Adult and Community Learning centres. Some of the key benefits cited were: “Schools using open source software can develop their information and communication technology (ICT) as they

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What stops the adoption of WebQuests and other constructivist lesson formats? At a recent conference, Bernie Dodge (the creator of the WebQuest model) analysed the problem and pointed to solutions that close the gaps.There is an increasing interest in the use of WebQuests in the UK, and I’m hearing more and more people asking about ways that they can be used to support their teaching and learning

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Wow. If you are looking for information on Interactive Whiteboards this is a very good place to start.Joop van Schie in the Netherlands has put together this list of over 35 sites about Interactive Whiteboards. The list of sites includes ones with “evidence of the use of interactive whiteboards in classroom, lesson plans, tips on how to use them in learning and/or teaching situations, an overview

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Teaching and Developing Online recently signposted Quiz-Tree.com, a site that has free quizzes that you can play right in your browser.QuizTree has free quizzes on many subjects, including Maths, Fractions, Spanish, Geography, SAT Verbal and Spelling. This could be quite a useful resource for Basic Skills tutors and with its long list of Spanish quizzes provides useful to support language studies

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A couple of days ago John Battelle announced that Google was about to “launch an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player. This is the logical next step for Google's video search and upload function, which began taking uploads from anyone who cared to submit back in April.”In his article he writes that…“…this is a big deal for many institutions which do not have

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Ok, this is a little old now but is something I meant to post weeks ago. Still, better late than never...!Some time ago I briefly mentioned The OpenCD (which has Open Office) and described how a learning centre in West Sussex was using it with their learners.I didn’t go into much detail but Edugadet have since looked at OpenOffice Version 2 and wrote up a really good evaluation of some of its key

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Today`s newspapers feature more on the digital divide in the UK, based on the findings of a study conducted by the London School of Economics.In the Guardian Lucy Ward reports that ….`Children from poorer homes are becoming victims of a `digital divide` because their parents lack the skills to help them use the internet as effectively as their middle-class counterparts….` and...`…while

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Up until recently I didn`t realise Google had a built in calculator, which for me is quite handy. I know I have a calculator in my accessories but since I have Google open so much of the time this might just be easier for quick sums.To use Google`s built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you`d like done into the search box and hit the Enter key or click on the Google Search

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Last week the government published its Connecting the UK strategy, drawn up by the prime minister's Strategy Unit and the Department of Trade and Industry. This aims to close the digital divide and ensure that all levels of society are able to get the most from technology.You can read summaries of the strategy in both the Guardian and Computing, or you can download a full copy of the report here.

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Do you know someone who is transforming teaching, learning and leadership using ICT? If so, it’s not too late to nominate them for the 2006 ICT in Practice Awards ….The ICT in Practice Awards aim to identify models of excellent practice and use these to develop and promote effective practice in the use of ICT in teaching, learning and leadership. The Awards share this information with the wider

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I like this - "Talk to old (and young) people they know cool stuff you don’t..." It’s just so true, and this image is great.The photo was taken for We Are What We Do, a movement which aims to inspire people to use their everyday actions to change the world.“We live in peculiar times. We live in an era in which communications can connect us with each other more than ever before: via the Internet,

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I don’t yet know whether furling resources in the side bar of this blog is a good or bad thing. With things I may have previously blogged about now appearing automatically in the sidebar, I’ve done far less actual writing/blogging. Subscribers (whether by RSS or email) may also be wondering what has happened? Why the quiet times? What’s the deal? (Well you will be if you haven’t visited the blog

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Just a couple of days ago I was raving about Furl to a freind on the train. Furl is:'...a free service that saves a personal copy of any page you find on the Web, and lets you find it again instantly by searching your archive of pages - your Personal Web. Furl offers the best ways to share the content you find on the Web, and recommends new Web pages that may interest you. You can also search

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The February Issue of Info@UK is now available online. (Info@UK is a monthly guide to major developments and news on the UK Information Society. It is compiled for the British Council by the Information Management Research Institute at Northumbria University) February's is a very full issue, and to whet your appetite here’s a quick outline of just some of the content in each of its main

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In the sidebar of my blog you should currently see a link to Jux2 (courtesy of some blog design changes that have been taking place around here). Jux2 is a search tool that compares the results from a number of different search engines by searching Google, Yahoo! And Ask Jeeves simultaneously. They claim: “If the search engines are providing top results that are very different from each other,

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Becta (the British Education and Communications Technology Agency) has recently awarded a contract to Vantaggio Ltd to undertake a research study into e-learning provision for the Post-16 education sector. (This is a broad and diverse sector, involving Further Education, Sixth Form Colleges, Work Based Learning as well as Adult and Community Learning). The information gathered during the review

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Someone asked me what RSS was recently and although I did my best to explain, this article from Mitch Wagner, Techweb.com would have come in really handy. It’s actually entitled “I came, I saw, I RSS’d” but I think it’s opening line “What The Heck Is RSS, And What Can It Do For Me?” really captures what the article is about. In it he describes what RSS is, what it can do for you, tells you how

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Common Craft posted this link to Just Letters which I thought was just great! “It's a simple page with nothing but letters of the alphabet, as if they were displayed on a fridge. Up to 50 people at once move the letters around independently, creating this anonymous, chaotic environment where it's impossible to have any real control. Pointless and juvenile, yes, but worth short look and a laugh.

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3T Productions Ltd has now released the fifth of a series of discussion papers and articles which aim to raise an awareness of the issues affecting staff, learners and organisations within the post-14 sector. This latest paper Mobile Learning, discusses the possible uses of handheld computers within education/training and the workplace. Previous papers have included: Unlocking the Potential of

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If you're involved in using ICT with disadvantaged groups, then here's your chance to have a say. The Social Exclusion Unit (ODPM) would like to invite you to take part in their "Inclusion through innovation" project which aims to gather views and opinions on how ICT could be used to improve outcomes and service delivery for disadvantaged groups. They would like to get as many views and opinions

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In November I briefly mentioned the JISC e-Learning Development Programme and introduced the four strands that it covers. JISC is now inviting tenders from individuals and teams with suitable expertise to carry out an evaluation study under the e-Learning and Pedagogy strand. This study will investigate tools in use by practitioners in UK further, higher and continuing/adult and community

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“Most people believe pensioners should be given access to free education, a survey suggests. The Association of Colleges says the government is focusing its funding on improving younger people's skills, squeezing money for adult learning. Some colleges say they are having to raise fees or cut courses. Of the 2,045 people questioned for the AoC across Britain, 82% said education should be free to

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If you missed the Post-16 E-learning Practitioners' Conference this year there’s a very good summary of it over at EdTechUK. Josie has done a good job of summarising the general themes of the two days and the issues raised by some of the keynote speakers.

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ICTlogy has summarised the key findings of a survey about e-learning uses in 697 nonprofit organisations. The survey was carried out by Isoph and N-TEN: and asked these organisations what they used e-learning for and what are the main pros and cons, etc. You can either read the summary or get the pdf with full survey results from the site. (Thanks to Josie for pointing this out to me).

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A couple of days ago Marcus P. Zillman referred to a site that had games that could be used for learning vocabulary. "It has been their goal to create a vocabulary oriented site that would be educational, fun, simple to use and friendly. The site has something for everyone and there will be updates on an ongoing basis. Games include: WordSearch, Crosswords, Hangman, Quiz and Match Game." So far

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Last month I signposted three Google bits and bobs that I had come across. I'd also said that three was your lot - but we now need to change that to four.Blame Jack Schofield. In the Guardian he reported that:"Google Suggest quietly debuted this week on the company's Labs site, which showcases Google features that 'aren't quite ready for prime time..."So there's now another new Google tool for us

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Questions raised as Mark Samuels reveals the 'University for Industry' has cost nearly £1bn. In a recent article he says that: "Yet another publicly-funded elearning initiative is struggling to meet its ambitious objectives, consuming huge amounts of taxpayers' money in the process. Following in the wake of education disaster UKeU and the axing of the health sector's NHSU, the 'University for

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Becta has launched a new technology newsletter aimed at everyone in the education sector. "TechNews is a technology, news and analysis service from Becta aimed at anyone in the education sector keen to stay informed about technology developments, trends and issues. TechNews focuses on emerging technologies and other technology news." Each issue will contain news related to the following main

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I’ve spoken to a couple of people recently who have expressed an interest in Moodle and have wanted to try it out. In my experience, this is the case with a lot of software, we often want to see it being used before making decisions about whether it’s what we need. That’s what makes this OpenSourceCMS website a very useful one. “This site was created with one goal in mind. To give you the

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“The government has reached its target of 750,000 adults in England gaining literacy and numeracy qualifications, official figures show. Some 2.4 million adults have taken up 4.8 million course places since 2001, on the Get On scheme. The Get On Campaign aims to improve the literacy, language and numeracy skills of adults in England. It forms a key part of the Skills for Life strategy. The

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"All workers in England who do not have basic qualifications or skills will be offered extra training, the Chancellor has announced... Under the scheme, called the Employer Training Programme, all employees without skills at GCSE level or equivalent will be encouraged to take up free training. They will be entitled to time off work, with the government helping employers to do this. He said to

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BT reports that more people signed up for broadband in the last three months than in any other quarter. The 600,000 connections take the total number of people in the UK signing up for broadband from BT to almost 3.3 million. Nationally more than 5 million browse the net via broadband. The growth means that Britain's broadband population has now overtaken some other European nations. You can

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I’ve come across a couple of google related resources recently so thought I’d group them all together here. (Three is your lot though – any more and I may start going googly!) 1. Google Help: Cheat Sheet "A neat one page printable Google cheat sheet (from Google) covering various Google operator examples, calculator operators and advanced operators to make your searching of Google more focused

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BBC Wales has developed a computer programme that enables English translations for users of Welsh language websites. The programme, Vocab, is available free of charge to Welsh-language websites. When users hold the cursor over a word, its translation appears. A new version of Vocab, which is shortly to be made available, will offer different levels according to users’ reading ability in Welsh.

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The JISC Learning and Teaching committee is funding an e-learning Programme to run until August 2007. The overarching aim of the programme is to identify how e-learning approaches might be used to facilitate learning and to advise on how these approaches might be implemented. The programme focuses on four areas:e-learning and PedagogyTechnical Framework and Tools for e-Learning Innovation

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This is an American site that offers a useful practitioner’s resource for the delivery and management of education via the Internet. The site attempts to informally catalogue tools, topics and issues of interest to those developing for web-based learning initiatives. The three areas cover: 1) Issues and Resources for Web Based Learning, 2) Software Tools for Web Based Courses, and 3) Distance

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NIACE, in conjunction with the NLN, is now recruiting for the second wave of the national E-Guides Staff Development Training programme. (Although I have also been told that its possible to join at other times - so if you're interested but unsure of the timing it might still be worth enquiring) What is the E-Guides programme? The E-Guides staff development programme has been designed to support

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"Despite Government efforts to promote 'lifelong learning' and a more equitable and inclusive 'learning society' there is little special or new about adult learning in the digital age, according to research at Cardiff University. The Adult Learning at Home project which was funded by ESRC, concluded that ICT has not increased participation and achievement rates in adult education. Instead,

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"There are certainly times for everyone where they cannot seem to remember a certain phrase or word, and it may become rather vexing and frustrating. Fortunately, there is now the OneLook Reverse Dictionary website which can help persons confounded by this situation. Essentially, users can type in a concept into a search engine and receive a list of words and phrases related to that concept…

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Marcus P. Zillman pointed out a new UK based search engine today, UKWizz. "UKWizz is a UK based internet search engine. Our aim is to provide UK users with a search experience that is both Relevant and specific to the UK. There are many excellent search engines out there so what makes UKWizz different? UKWizz has been designed for and targeted at UK internet users. We try to keep our results as

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