Category: Web/Tech
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Followup on Facebook Advertising
A month ago I offered my initial thoughts on the University of Calgary’s experiment with placing social ads within Facebook. Here are the results of our second round of advertising, where we switched the content of the ads to see if students seemed to be responding more to the type of ad or the content…
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MIT Lecture Browser
From Carolyn Kotlas at TL INFOBITS: This fall researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released the MIT Lecture Browser, “a web interface to video recordings of lectures and seminars that have been indexed using automatic speech recognition technology.” Users can search on terms or phrases and then play the video at the point(s) in…
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Librarian Chick Free eBooks Wiki
Stacy Reed of Librarian Chick has a pretty nice list of free e- and audio book sites on her wiki, which is dedicated to free online resources for educators – lots of other good stuff here too. Technorati Tags: ebooks, wikis
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Random Tuesday Tech Tip #4 – Google Reader Keyboard Shortcuts
I’ve been using Google Reader for quite some time now – really like it. I used to use a desktop aggregator because it was a lot more flexible and customizable, but being tied to a single machine eventually did that one it for me. I’ve found Google Reader to be very reliable, and it gets…
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EZ Proxy and database RSS feeds
I haven’t been keeping up with the RSS feeds supplied by the likes of EBSCO. The other day a colleague bugged me about the fact that the RSS feeds weren’t being accepted by Bloglines (or any other web-based aggregator), and upon investigation realized that instead of receiving an RSS feed, Bloglines was receiving our authentication…
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Wetpaint Education Wikis Are Now Ad-free!
I really like the interface and options at wetpaint, one of the free wiki-hosting companies. Like most free services, they embed ads on pages that you create. Except now, if you create an education-based wiki with them, you can email them and they’ll remove the ads! Visit http://www.wetpaint.com/category/Education–Ad-Free for more details. They say: Who qualifies…
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The Blog Readability Test – bwahahahaaahaa!
Oh this is good – saw someone reference the Blog Readability Test (what level of education is required to understand your blog?) and of course plugged mine in to learn: Then just for fun I grabbed the first blogger I thought of who actually writes, and this is what Meredith at Information Wants to be…
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Zero-Install Remote Screen Sharing Apps?
Scott Leslie at edtechpost is seeking a zero-install remote screen sharing application – something that would allow him to see his patron’s screen w/o the patron having to download an application. I think Yugma might do the trick, do any of you have actual experience with Yugma, or with any application that would fit the…
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Using Google SMS to find the way
You may recall that a week or two ago I had some trouble finding my way from the Monterey airport to the San Francisco airport. The woman at the car rental counter didn’t have any maps outside of Monterey, and couldn’t give me directions up to SFO. I don’t have a fancy phone, but the…