Category: Technology
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Chromium browser and extensions
So the Linux build of Chromium (the open source browser than Google Chrome is based on) has been out for a while now and every now and again I’ve been upgrading to the latest developer release just to see how it’s coming along. Lately, the builds have been a lot more stable, font rendering hasn’t…
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eLearning colloquium
I attended an eLearning colloquium on campus earlier today, and posted some notes on my site.
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Ubuntu Netbook Remix update
Here are the screenshots of my netbook running the Karmic version of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (this link goes to the current stable release, which is Jaunty) that I promised in my previous post: [nggallery id=23] I’d recommend installing Ubuntu-Tweak, which exposes a few of the hidden features of Ubuntu and also allows you to…
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One standardised storage format for common data
Is it too much to ask for software developers to agree on one standard storage format for commonly accessed data? Why does every browser that I use have it’s own bookmarking system, rather than one location separated out from the actual programme that all programmes can then access. For example, Firefox keeps it’s bookmarks at…
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My CV in Wordle
As an experiment, I put my CV (which hasn’t been updated in a while) through Wordle to see what I’d get. As you can see below, the word cloud it created isn’t reflective of my main areas of interest (i.e. technology in education). I’m going to spend some time updating the content and then put…
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International collaborative undergraduate student project
I’ve recently been invited to participate in a collaborative undergraduate physiotherapy project, hosted at Physiopaedia, for 2010. It will involve students from several countries and continents, and our students will be the only ones from a developing country, which should make for an interesting comparison of the final products at the end. Following the conclusion…
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Learning Management Systems
I’ve been to a few conferences and presentations in the last few months, and there seems to be this idea that e-learning is all about putting your lecture notes and Powerpoint slides into your institution’s Learning Management System (LMS) and then you’re done. Now you can say that you use “e-learning” in your teaching practice.…
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Microsoft ignoring standards?
in TechnologyIt seems as if the beta release of MS Outlook 2010 has stirred up some controversy around it’s decision to continue using Word’s rendering engine to display HTML emails. This hasn’t gone down too well in some parts of the community, with some groups of people struggling to accept the fact that MS doesn’t care…
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First article published
I just had my first research article published. It’s based mainly on the literature review I did for my Masters degree last year, with a few updates. It’s strange, but when I submitted it about 6 months ago, I thought it was a reasonable piece of work. Reading it now, I feel like taking it…
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Digital course readers
When I took over the modules I currently teach, I inherited several folders containing the course readers for each subject, which had been “developed” over many years. They consisted mainly of a selection of photocopied or typed pages, loosely related, inconsistently formatted, poorly referenced, often duplicated and impossible to search. When students needed to find…
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Did you know?
I recently came across an updated version of the Did you know 2.0 video that was doing the rounds in 2006/2007. Did you know 3.0 has new statistics (although they’re probably already outdated) and a different visual appeal. If you haven’t seen it and are interested in the role the internet is playing in fundamentally…
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Managing digital libraries
I just re-installed Mendeley after moving from Fedora to Kubuntu and in the process came across a few other posts / sites discussing the problem of managing large numbers of research articles. Here’s a few of the more interesting ones I came across. Defrosting the digital library: bibliographic tools for the next generation web How…