Hey, I didn’t even know you could do this! In Mac OS X, you know those little icons in the top-right menubar, stuff like the date, iChat, airport status etc, well there are loads of little utilities you can get to cram in your menubar to do cool tricks. Check out super OS X menubar [...]
Archive for October, 2005
Normal service will be resumed soon!
Please bear with me as I migrate 3+ years of weblog posts from Radio UserLand to my new WordPress weblog. I’ve managed to get the 700-odd individual posts into the new database but there are a few glitches to sort out over the weekend.
John Peel Day
To mark John Peel Day, today I will be mostly listening to Joy Division, New Order, White Stripes and PJ Harvey as well as remembering the great man himself.
WebCT and BlackBoard to merge
A couple of years ago I was at the IMS Alt-i-lab meeting in San Francisco and heard two very interesting and honest presentations from the CTOs of both WebCT and BlackBoard…. Imagine if you could use WebCT one week, effortlessly switch to BlackBoard the next and so on, “what would be the reason for remaining loyal to any one system?â€, or so they argued. While the big two vendors remained separate there was always a customer demand for the ability to at least in principle switch content from one system to the other as universities for instance feared content lock-in…. Sure there remain a number of very good but much smaller systems as alternatives to the Bb/WebCT behemoth but if you were BlackBoard would you work hard to make sure your content or services were interoperable with those?
WeLOAD RELOAD
The RELOAD web site is showing a link to WeLOAD or the Web based Learning Object Authoring and Delivery service. WeLoad “… is a web based editor which collects and structures Uploads, Links and Descriptions to IMS content packages in a school intranet and delivers them via browser in the way RELOAD does”. Sounds like [...]
Gia’s little ray of Sunshine
Gia has a new job blogging the filming of Sunshine, a new Danny Boyle/Alex Garland flic. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be on a movie set – assuming you never regularly watch the ‘making of’ extras on DVDs – then Gia’s Sunshine blog is for you. Blogging the making of a film [...]