Periodic Fable

Monday, 3 December 2007

Advent (of technology) calendar

This December at ELKS (the community of expertise which I manage for the UN's Global Alliance for ICT in Development initiative) we've adapted a December tradition to produce an "Advent of technology" Calendar - with a resource, tool or tip about e-learning for every day of December.
There are 30 days to fill - so we need your contributions! Tell us what tool (including software, hardware or gadgets), or what resource (such as website), or what conference, journal, model of best practice, or even person has greatly impacted on your practice as a teacher using technology. What's been the greatest boon? What changed your life? Well - at least what changed your teaching practice, at least a little!

Email helen.whitehead AT le.ac.uk with your suggestions to add to our calendar, the sooner the better. If you can accompany it with a photo related to your location (as square as possible), that would be even better. You'll see December 2^nd is a view up the Attenborough Tower at the University of Leicester, where the Beyond Distance Research Alliance (where ELKS is based) has its offices.

There's also a discussion - please let us know what your tool, resource etc. means to you.

To find the Advent Calendar go to ELKS and click on Showcase in the left hand menu. Click on the Advent of technology Calendar then double-click on today's picture and "view details" to see the resource behind it. You don't have to login to see the calendar.
DIRECT LINK to calendar
If you have an interest in the role of e-learning in development, and would like to become a member of ELKS, just get in touch with me and I'll send you a password. helen.whitehead AT le.ac.uk
Labels: calendar, e-learning, elearning, elearning tools, ELKS, learning futures, online communities, UN, UN-GAID, universities

posted by Helen Whitehead 9:39 AM

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Tuesday, 15 May 2007

Web Applications and Web 2.0 links

Personalised homepages

PageFlakes
http://www.pageflakes.com/

Netvibes
http://www.netvibes.com/

iGoogle
http://www.igoogle.com

Office/Organisation

30 boxes web calendar
http://30boxes.com/welcome.php

Amazon S3 (NOTE - not free)
Simple Storage Service
can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web

Yahoo pipes
feed aggregator
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

Thinkfree
ThinkFree Office is a Microsoft® Office compatible application suite comprised of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics software-all usable online and off.
http://www.thinkfree.com/

Google Apps
Free for domains (premier service for charge)
Groups can check email, schedule meetings, check email, chat in real time, collaborate on documents, and more, via the web.
http://www.google.com/a/

Dabble DB
Web database
http://www.dabbledb.com/

Virus Scanners

AVG
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Trend micro housecall
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

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Web 2.0 links

RSS Info
tools for rss feeds
http://www.rss-info.com/

ELGG
Open source social networking platform developed for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) which encompasses weblogging, file storage, RSS aggregation, personal profiles, FOAF functionality and more
http://elgg.org/

There.com
A virtual world that's not Second Life
http://www.there.com/

UK Web Focus - Web 2.0 blog
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/

Office 2.0
http://itredux.com/blog/office-20/
Labels: calendar, organisation, Web 2.0, web applications, website development

posted by Helen Whitehead 2:27 PM

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