OU Signs up for Google Apps – 200k Students join the Coud
The Open University are one of the latest institutions to move their student email services to the cloud after signing up to Google Apps. As well as email, OUs 200k […]
Google Reader: Follow Changes to any Website
Reader is Google’s web-based service which allows to view the latest updates to your favourite news or blog sites in one place. Traditionally services and desktop applications like Google Reader […]
Festive fun: Auto tweeting your Google Reader shared items using Yahoo Pipes and twitterfeed
Using the festive period to stray slightly away from my core remit I thought I would document a little mashup which allows you to automatically tweet items you share in […]
JISC Winter Fayre: Voting and Google Wave Presentations
Things have been quite on the blogging front as we dug out the tinsel to celebrate all things JISC at our Winter Fayre. We managed to squeeze almost 30 different […]
Educational Extensions (Robots and Gadgets) for Google Wave
I was creating an intermediate guide for staff exploring Google Wave and as part of it I’ve put together a list of Wave extensions which might be of use to […]
Google Wave 101 (Presentations from Scottish VLE groups)
In the last couple of weeks I’ve given Google Wave presentations to the Scottish Blackboard User Group (Scot-BUG) and the Scottish Moodle User Group (SMUG). These have been designed to […]
Automatic Captions in YouTube
Video has the potential to be a very stimulating and engaging format for teaching and learning, but at the same time staff have to be aware of the accessibility implications. […]
Moodle Wave: Embedding Google Wave into Moodle
I’ve previously given instructions for Embedding Google Wave into Blackboard, for you Moodlers out there the process is practically identical: In your Wave Preview account add [email protected] Create a new […]
Google’s Take On the Magical Potential Of Mobile + Cloud
TechCrunch were at the Google’s press event for one of the applications in the next version of their open source mobile operating system Android 2.0. During the Q&A Google’s CEO […]
Black Wave 2: Blackboard Wave Integration!
Yesterday I showed you how you could embed Google Wave into Blackboard. At the time I tweeted this as “Google Wave embedded into Blackboard WebCT. A world 1st? http://twitgoo.com/4p068” (the […]