Receiving an email attachment in a file format that is not supported on your operating system can be a frustrating experience for you and the sender. Fortunately, there are free tools like Docs Pal that will convert files into other …
ExoPC: the Quebecker iPad
An interview with Jean-Baptiste Martinoli, CTO Of ExoPC, the creator of a tablet PC some are calling the “Quebecker iPad”.
http://www.alltouchtablet.com/articles/interview-the-story-behind-exopc-with-video-1973/…
PLE vs VLE
Video on personal learning environments (PLEs) in the spirit of the Common Craft ‘plain English’ videos. “In this presentation,” write the students who produced it, “we aim to explore these ideas and enable teachers to begin thinking about how they …
Ontario universities to adopt e-learning
Learning about Socrates through Facebook forums and chatting with a professor through Skype is the reality for students as e-learning claims a more dominant role in higher education. Ontario is the latest jurisdiction to jump in with plans to launch …
Zim: An Easy To Use Desktop Wiki For Your Life & Everything
The Zim wiki is an open-source program available for Linux and Windows, and it’s a great way to build a simple desktop wiki. Best of all, it’s named after the single greatest cartoon character in history.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/zim-desktop-wiki-life-universe/…
How to Track Topics With Google Alerts
Google Alerts is a great tool for tracking your name online, tracking work you’ve posted online, and tracking the topics in you have an interest. You can create a Google Alert for any search term(s) you like. Once you’ve established …
Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles
Hard to believe there could be 55 articles on Twitter in learning, but Tony Karrer has them. He writes, “Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying ‘I don’t get it’ – to feeling like it’s …
Make A Lasting Impression With TokBox Video Messages
Email is boring. It has its place and it’s an important method of communication, but if you really want to stand out, it can be hard to do that through a simple email. Text and emoticons can only accomplish so …
Google Calendar’s Smart Rescheduler Searches For The Best Meeting Times
The only thing worse than company meetings is trying to schedule one. The more people who need to be at that meeting, the harder it is to find a time slot that works with everyone’s schedule. A new Google Calendar …
i>clicker Intros Web-based Clicker
i>clicker has created a new student response mechanism that runs through a Web browser. web>clicker allows students with any device that runs a standard Web browser to vote using laptops, PDAs, and cell phones. To help with accessibility, web>clicker provides …
EasyStereogramBuilder: Generate Magic Eye Stereograms Online
Do you remember the nineties when Magic Eye was the craze and people were literally cross-eyed trying to find a 3D image within an image? Here is a website to bring the fun of the nineties back. EasyStereogramBuilder is a …
The iPhone for Moodle web application asks for your feedback
Moodle developers who have released a prototype iPhone app for the LMS are looking for feedback. Also worth noting in this post is the description of the five steps involved in the development of the product.
http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.com/2010/03/our-iphone-for-moodle-web-application.html…
mTouch (MoodleTouch) for iPhone: Another Mobile App
“MTouch is the first and only native iPhone application for Moodle” according to their website: http://moodletouch.com. This adds a little more competition to the quickly developing field of Mobile Moodle apps and plug-ins.
http://www.moodlemonthly.com/2010/mtouch-moodletouch-for-iphone-another-mobile-app/…
75 Free Language Learning Resources Online
Whether you’re trying to learn English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Italian –you get the picture – it’s good to get free help along the way. Luckily, there are tons of free online resources out there. Here are 75 to …
How Does Cloud Computing Work?
Cloud computing has been changing how most people use the web and how they store their files. It’s the structure that runs sites like Facebook, Amazon and Twitter and the core that allows us to take advantage of services like …