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Giving all students in your class 100% without looking at their answers certainly reduces marking load. How do you achieve this nirvana? Simple, use clickers in class exams. This excellent solution comes to us via a Wired Campus blog post from Josh Fischman reporting the outcome of a biology exam for 900 students at the [...]
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According to a post from Fred Wilson a journablogger ‘has his or her own blog or works in a blog network like paid content, techcrunch, gigaom, alley insider, read write web, mashable, venturebeat, etc, etc’.
I like the word but it is difficult to pronounce. For the record I don’t yet aspire to be a journablogger, [...]
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Tips on how to get things done and save time at work are thick on the ground. A seemingly anonymous Lifehacker blog post caught my imagination for once since I could actually see myself implementing most of the 10 tips. My summary is:
In extremis do a brain dump; leave your workstation and with pen/paper or [...]
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In our Faculty of Business, Technology and Sustainable Development and hence the School of IT we have a MSDN Academic Alliance licence. This gives the Faculty’s students and staff free copies of Microsoft developer tools, operating systems and servers, amongst other software.
However, Bill Gates has just announced DreamSpark which is the free availability of Microsoft [...]
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In our Faculty of Business, Technology and Sustainable Development and hence the School of IT we have a MSDN Academic Alliance licence. This gives the Faculty’s students and staff free copies of Microsoft developer tools, operating systems and servers, amongst other software.
However, Bill Gates has just announced the free availability of Microsoft developer and designer [...]
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When an application or web site prompts you for a login the accepted standard has become:
The cursor should be blinking in the login name field
Type your login name
Press tab to move to the password field
Type your password
Press tab to move the Remember Me field as a checkbox [...]
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Following Peta’s example I am giving ScribeFire a test on this WordPress blog. Being a Windows Live Writer and a Windows addict it will be a difficult for ScribeFire to come close. So far the editing and spelling features are working well although I am already feeling the lack of keyboard shortcuts.
Devices like the Eee [...]
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I was intrigued by the Lifehacker post about the ControlC clipboard history site. Using a small client you have to download and install ControlC copies the contents of your clipboard each time it changes to your area of their web site. According the ControlC the clipboard contents are encrypted and private. Visiting the web site [...]
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I just could not resist a trial of the new ‘personal twitter’ template called Prologue that the guys at WordPress.com released last week. Reluctant to turn this blog into a twitter interface I had to sign up for another blog called Twitter with Michael at http://twittterpress.wordpress.com.
It turned out to be very easy to use, [...]
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Once again my favourite cable TV technology programme, The Lab With Leo, came up trumps. In episode 139 Leo Laporte’s guest Tris Hussey, the regular blogging guy, talked about BlogBackupOnline. This online service trawls the feed for your blog and on request performs a full backup of all posts and comments in your blog. You [...]
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