Category: How-to

Embedding .mp3 audio files into Google Sites

I was preparing this for someone else but thought I’d share here. Here’s how to embed a .mp3 audio file in Google Sites. On the page you want to embed audio enter edit mode and move the cursor to where you want the audio player to appear. Then from the Insert menu, at the very […]

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How to Scoop.it from Google Reader (2 ways)

I’ve avoided the whole Twitter newspaper type services like paper.li/Tweeted Times and when I see one published in my timeline the only time I click through to see what’s in it is when I’m mentioned as a source. So yesterday when I saw Brian Kelly was suggesting to his colleagues to look at the one […]

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How to translate a PDF document

Last night I was trying to translate Dröge, E., Maghferat, P., Puschmann, C., Verbina, J., & Weller, K. (in press/2011). Konferenz-Tweets. Ein Ansatz zur Analyse der TwitterKommunikation bei wissenschaftlichen Konferenzen. Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium for Information Science (pp. n.n.). Boizenburg: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch. (pdf link to paper). I thought The Google Doc Viewer […]

Festive treat: How-to temporarily stop receiving JISCMail list messages

I’ve a very complicated email setup which involves mail forwarding, group email addresses and  loads of rules and alerts. I also have to keep a passing eye on work email over the holidays to keep projects like EduApps and MyStudyBar ticking over. Consequently, I’ll be dipping into email using the brilliant (and open source) K9 […]

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Cooking: A Custom Search Engine for … with Edublog 2010 Nominees

In my spare time I like to do a bit of cooking. I’m mainly a recipes kind of a guy, using the experience of recreating something tried and tested to build a foundation of knowledge to explore some of my own personal creations. The same is true for my interest in educational mash-ups. Trying out […]

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How to Google Instant(ise) a Custom Search Engine (CSE) – Revisited

Previously I posted How to Google Instant(ise) a Custom Search Engine (CSE), which like a lot of my pet projects is perpetual beta (my general fallback to explain away bad coding or user interface). In particular it wasn’t until I took Chris Jobling’s Google Custom Search Engine for #PLENK2010 and ‘instantise’ it that a couple […]

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How to Google Instant(ise) a Custom Search Engine (CSE)

[flickr]4605291728[/flickr] Update: This solution has evolved slightly. More information in How to Google Instant(ise) a Custom Search Engine (CSE) – Revisited Google have grabbed quite a few headlines with their new Instant search and there has been a rush of developers ‘instantising’ other sites. The one which has got the most attention is Stanford student […]

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Using YouTube for audio/video feedback for students

[flickr]2469419808[/flickr] A long, long, long time ago I wrote a post Using Tokbox for Live and Recorded Video Feedback in which I demonstrated how the free ManyCam software could be used to turn your desktop into a virtual webcam to provide feedback on students work in a Russell Stannard styley. Recently my colleague Kenji Lamb […]

The need for speed: Tuning up to keep your students (and Google) happy

[flickr]2228669044[/flickr] Google recently announced that it is using site speed in web search ranking and while the weighting of this metric is slight (less than 1% of search queries will be affected) it is still good practice to make sure your web resources are optimised. I was a little shocked to discover MASHe didn’t fair […]

Creating a PDF or eBook from an RSS feed (feedbooks.com)

A couple of weeks ago I was interested to read Joss Winn’s blog post on  Creating a PDF or eBook from an RSS feed in which he highlights using the FeedBooks service. This was ideal timing as we are always looking for new ways to make RSC NewsFeed readable in as many formats as possible. […]

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