Czeching in on Tech
I've recently been involved with several projects where the question arose how to handle online presence. Everybody always agrees that you need a website and these days somebody always asks what about Facebook. And with a really hip crowd, you also get a question about Twitter or maybe LinkedIn. But the online presence world is…
Read more →What's Google Hangouts Google Hangouts is a great free video service from Google for groups of up to 10 people to have an audio/video chat with each other while sharing their screens, watching videos together, or collaborating on documents. This seems custom-made for the needs of an online classroom since one of the biggest issues…
Read more →I gave this presentation at the ALT Conference 2012 in Manchester . Presentation Download presentation from Slideshare . Abstract The title of this presentation is a composite of the many responses we receive when we deliver training on accessible documents to teachers as part of the Load2Learn project, an online collection of downloadable…
Read more →Personalizando WordPress 1.5 (Photo credit: juanpol) Note: This is a much longer post than I intended. Therefore, I could not face rereading all of it and fixing it for clarity and grammar. Let me know if something is too opaque. Also, not everything that could be linked is linked. Let your…
Read more →In case of problems: How to uninstall Office 2013 Preview If you have trouble with the Office 2013 Consumer Preview and cannot uninstall it, you can use this tool from Microsoft [Link downloads file ]. You may have to associate your file extensions with the previous version of your Office application. This is what happened…
Read more →I talked about some Moodle UX problems on the admin side . These are some student facing UX improvements that would make the world a better place. 1. Better course navigation: No scroll of death There really isn't much more to say. Get rid of the scroll of death. There is simply no instance where…
Read more →Moodle 2 has introduced some useful features that make administration easier. The search admin option, docking, AJAXified search of user lists, permissions setting, etc. But at the same time, it left important things out and/or made others more difficult. Some of these must be through inattention and some through making assumptions about how Moodle is…
Read more →This is my proposal for a Pecha Kucha session at the MoodleMoot Dublin 2012 . It barely scratches the surface but should be a good start for people who care about accessibility. If you only have time to read one post today, skip this one and nothing read this great post explaining screen readers in…
Read more →This is a sneak peak at the slides on Slideshare (subject to small changes) of a talk I'll be giving at Moodle Moot UK 2011. I'll be sharing our experiences with using various (mostly cloud-based ) tools to provide Moodle support in a purely e-learning environment with no face-to-face training available. The full text of…
Read more →My proposal for Moodle Moot UK 2011 has been accepted. Here it is in case anyone wants to suggest things. This presentation will share various experiences with providing technology support to Moodle users with varied ICT skills (teachers enrolled on fully online Postgraduate Courses). It will evaluate various approaches that can be used independently or…
Read more →I just gave the following answer to this question from a student. Perhaps somebody can find this useful. Comments welcome: does anyone know the rules about using images from the internet for teaching resources in terms of copyright? I have been copying pictures willy nilly but not sure if that is legal.... Please don't take…
Read more →Yes, my beloved Nokia E71 is showing its age and luckily its senescence was accompanied by the expiration of its contract. Enter the HTC Desire (my second HTC phone after the underpowered WiMo 730) and it's been a great first day. And I have the Apps to show it . Seriously, thanks to the great…
Read more →