Jack Schofield at the Guardian has blown the myth that a black background to Google will save the planet… Blackle.com is a search engine that claims to save thousands of watts of energy by searching Google (to which it has no connection) with a black background instead of a white
From David Bradley, Science writer:blog and podcastshttp://www.sciencebase.com/ I was looking for an asynchronous whiteboard, because the tool in Blackboard is itnended for use during synchronous sessions.Online collaborative whiteboard: Skrblhttp://www.skrbl.com/ What we really wanted was a Wiki that could be used as a collaborative mindmap.I found several reviews of online mindmap
The BBC has an interesting roundup of social networking sites under the headline “Don’t be lonely this Christmas”
Online Tutoringe-book by Carol Higginson, from 2000http://otis.scotcit.ac.uk/onlinebook/ Common Ground“The intersection of art, philanthropy, and the environment.”http://www.commonground2008.com/ EduToolsOld VLE comparisonhttp://www.edutools.info/item_list.jsp?pj=8New peer review versionhttp://www.edutools.info/static.jsp?pj=4&page=HOME “e-learning – making it work”A major national one-day conference for the Learning and Skills sector jointly organised by QIA (the Quality Improvement Agency) and ALT (the Association for
The BBC has an interesting report on how “growing numbers of individuals and small businesses are using home-made videos to sell goods and services online.” A new way of marketing and promoting your business, or even yourself? Imoondo.com is a US site for video classifieds. No doubt more and more
HotHouse, a leading Australian strategic online solutions company, has an interesting blog (noise) about web strategy, online marketing, and using Web 2.0 to grow your business. A useful place to see up-to-date information from an Australian perspective, and thought-provoking comment for us all. For example they point out that the
… for Adam of Peopleprofitplanet: ICOUNT together
Web 2.0 sites These sites will open in a new window. Wikipedia Digg (news items) del.icio.us (social bookmarking) Skype (internet telephony) Maps Google maps Microsoft’s Virtual Earth Sharing content YouTube (videos) Google videos iTunes (podcasts and music) Slideshare (presentations) 4shared (files & documents) Flickr Social networks Facebook (students etc.) MySpace
Here’s an interesting widget that helps you pick co-ordinating colours – particularly good for designing webpages, but also good for colours of any kind! Note: it doesn’t work in Internet Explorer, so you will need Firefox to use it properly, I’m afraid. Get great free widgets at Widgetbox!
We both attended the Women, Business and Blogging conference at De Montfort University last Friday 8th June. The speakers were fascinating (lots more detail on these on Helen Whitehead’s blog Periodic Fable): Meg Pickard of Guardian Unlimited, Eileen Brown of Microsoft and Jory des Jardins of BlogHer. They presented some