Hurricane Katrina - One Year On

There has been a lot of coverage on the news commemorating the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The New York Times Magazine has excellent coverage. Black and white film shot by Brenda Ann Kenneally on the children in the aftermath of Katrina.
The multimedia presentation with Kenneally’s black and white photos and the children’s voices [...]

Social media is the new marketing Strategy

There is a very interesting article on John Furrier’s Blog describing how Podcasting could be the next big thing for promoting and marketing products. There is a helpful list of specific tips on creating a podcast that works as a marketing tool. It could be useful to teachers who are interested in podcasting

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Presentations

Like anyone in the type of job I do I have to give presentations. I use keynote as it is much slicker with graphics and hopefully helps keep my audience engaged with what I am trying to get across. Most audiences nowadays are used to sitting through a set of slides listening to a [...]

Google introduces website collaboration services

Google has introduced Google Apps for businesses, a suite of hosted collaboration applications for small to medium-sized websites and businesses.
The company explains: “Now you can offer private-labelled email, instant messaging and calendar tools to all of your users for free, so they can share ideas and get things done more effectively. You can design and [...]

User Interface. Is this the way forward?

This video on You-Tube points the way towards the way we might interact with computers. It always strikes me that when I watch pupils using a mouse and keyboard how some of them are frustrated with the whole process of using a keyboard to get information into a computer or to manipulate information.

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Spamming is Profitable

We all get spam emails. Luckily my mail client, Mail App for OS X, does a pretty good job of filtering out the bulk of messages that are spam and sending them into a spam folder. This means I can simply delete them all with one click. The filtering system [...]