Articles tagged "webtools"
| Date | Title | Category | Tags |
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| August 11, 2010 | YouTube versus Screencast There are several media sharing websites that can be used to host your video recordings. Most offer a free version and the ability to embed your media onto a webpage such as a blog, or in the VLE (E.g. Blackboard). Media sharing websites offer varying features, so I have done a brief comparison of two [...] |
Blog posts Reviews | Screencast, video, webtools, youtube |
| August 6, 2010 | Editing your videos using Jaycut’s free tool This is a follow-up to the “Using the Flip Camera to make online videos in Blackboard” post. I went on a hunt to find an inexpensive video editing software that could be used on my PC to edit my flip camera recordings and stumbled upon a rather impressive free online editor, Jaycut. Jaycut requires no [...] |
Introducing... Reviews | webtools |
| July 22, 2010 | Linking to your Podcast from your Webpage This post shows how to link to your RSS file so your users can find your podcast. It will show you how to use the ITPC link so your users can subscribe directly in iTunes. |
How-to guidance | DELU33, iptc, iTunes, podcasting, webtools |
| July 20, 2010 | Writing an RSS feed for iTunes In this post we will cover how to go about writing your own XML to create an RSS feed for iTunes. The format used will be legible by most RSS aggregators but I will assume that you may intend, as some stage, to submit your feed to the iTunes Store which requires certain extra tags. [...] |
How-to guidance | iTunes, podcasting, rss, webtools, xml |
| June 16, 2010 | Managing appointments online using free web tools Do you need your students to make an appointment with you? Or maybe you want to set up a meeting and need to know what the best date/time based on everyone’s availability is? Do you want to get rid of paper sign up sheets? There are a few online options available, most of which offer [...] |
Reviews | web 2.0, webtools |
| December 1, 2009 | Fun with words: Wordle I’m way behind the crowd here but I’ve just discovered Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/). I’m writing this blog post for all those other folks out there who may also be slightly behind the bandwagon. Even if you haven’t created a Wordle yourself, if you’ve been to a presentation lately, the chances are you may well have come [...] |
Blog posts | cloud, tags, webtools, words |
| August 6, 2009 | Interested in creating videos? JISC Video Assist could help Have you got an idea for creating video resources to be used in your teaching? Do you and your team lack the skills required to create the resources? An initiative called Video Assist, run by JISC Digital Media might be the very thing you are looking for. |
News and Events | training, video, webtools |
| June 19, 2009 | What is RSS? What is “RSS” and why might you care? This article provides some explanation of the term. |
How-to guidance Introducing... | rss, subscribe, webtools |
| April 1, 2009 | What About Wikis? Wikis are a sort of social software, which allow you create a website where other people can easily edit and add content. You may be thinking about using a wiki to support your course, to share information with colleagues, or, for example, as a repository for service information of some kind. Wikis can be very [...] |
Introducing... | social software, web 2.0, webtools, wikis |
| March 12, 2009 | Organising meetings: Doodle Doodle allows you to invite people to attend a meeting and for the attendees to choose when they can attend from a range of dates and times that you dictate. It’s one of those fantastic apps that spreads so quickly among users. I think this is due to two things: it’s extremely easy to use [...] |
Introducing... | webtools |


