Paul's chatter

Another screencast – google maps

seanmp — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:50:47 +0000

Hi – I finally got round to another screencast. Check out the linke for tiny intro to Google maps.

Screencast – simple vbscript program

seanmp — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:15:44 +0000

Hiya, I just sourced the very useful screencast website (www.screencast.com), thought I’d share this and give it a go. I uploaded summary of a little program I wrote .. battling through VBscript for dummies

VBDelete

I was going to embedd into the blog, but haven’t had great results.

Where have I been?

seanmp — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:08:02 +0000

I like to think I have done a fair bit of travel in my time, so thought I’d add this map of places been, courtesy of Douwe Osinga

visited 29 states (12.8%)
Create your own visited map of The World

Oh , this one also which highlights my travels in the US…

visited 22 states (44%)
Create your own visited map of The United States

Tweeting Job Hunters

seanmp — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:47:44 +0000

Tweet yourself to a new job? The following is quite an interetsting article…

http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=801156

Web 2.0 video on YouTube

seanmp — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:43:41 +0000

Have a look at the following link on youtube. The sound is a bit dodgy but I like the presentation.

Elderly education

seanmp — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:32:31 +0000

I found an interesting article, on lack of education for elderly people despite a recorded demand. Particularly surrounding technology skills and awareness.

In particular, given that elderly in our society are more prone to social isolation, I think it really an area where evolving IT trends and social networking forums (in particular) could play a part in reducing this and in increasing quality of life for older people. Also to increase awareness of the networks that exist for their interests.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2465078/Isolated-elderly-missing-out-on-adult-education.html

Web 2.0 in Schools

seanmp — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:28:13 +0000

Courtesy of AshleyTan, and originating from Becta , I liked this snipit from their Report3, which I though provided some strong motivation towards 2.0 as a learning aid..

When used effectively Web 2.0 technologies had a positive impact on motivation and engagement through involving students in more participatory learning. For example:

Web 2.0 engaged many learners who were tentative contributors in class or who had special needs, and supported learners’ natural curiosity by enabling expression through different media and a sense of audience, providing access to further resources and the ability to gain confidence and skill in speaking and presenting. Some teachers had found that Web 2.0 technologies could encourage simultaneous, learner-directed discussions which extended beyond the lesson

The ‘anytime-anywhere’ availability of Web 2.0 can also be highly motivating, and can enhance learner autonomy and encourage extended learning through open ended tasks

Publication was felt to enhance a learner’s sense of ownership, engagement and awareness of audience. Publication online was used by some teachers as a key element in peer assessment and was found to encourage more attention to detail and improved the quality of work.

Also, some ever powerful stats to back it up,

Some teachers are enthusiastic proponents of Web 2.0. 59% believed that popular Web 2.0 resources should get more use in the classroom

Web 1.0 and 2.0 comparison

seanmp — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:47:26 +0000

Hi, I recently stumbled upon this link from ejdesign which I have found useful.

http://ejdesignfirm.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/hello-world/

Web 1.0
Application based
Isolated
Offline
Licensed or purchased
Single creator
Proprietary code
Copyrighted content

Web 2.0
Web based
Collaborative
Online
Free
Multiple Collaborators
Open source
Shared content

seanmp — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:19:56 +0000

My goodness … I seem to have forgotten LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com). I’m not sure how that happened, I seem to spend a bit of time on it!. What is it? Basically, a ‘get-connected’ site for professionals. Get connected with old contacts/colleagues and new ones. Give and receive recommendations ~ references. Sign-up to groups, in areas that interest you. Great site.

Web 2.0 Resources

seanmp — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:58:15 +0000

Hi – I thought as a realtive 2.0 beginner I’d document here some of the generic, and popular, resources on the web.

Delicious (delicious.com)

Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere. Share your bookmarks, and get bookmarks in return. Discover the most useful and interesting bookmarks on the web

Twitter (twitter.com)

Tell the world what your doing

YouTube (youtube.com)

A video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips

Facebook (facebook.com)

A free access social networking site

Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

A free multilingual encyclopedia

Photobucket (photobucket.com

An image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website

Craigslist (craigslist.com)

A centralized network of online communities, featuring free online classified advertisements – with jobs, internships, housing, personals, erotic services, for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, gigs, résumés, and pets categories – and forums on various topics

Flickr (flickr.com)

An image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform

WordPress (wordpress.com)

An open source blog publishing application

IMDb (imdb.com)

An online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media

Digg (digg.com)

A social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories

eHow (ehow.com)

An online knowledge resource with more than 337,000 articles and videos offering step-by-step instructions on “how to do just about everything”.

dailymotion (dailymotion.com)

A video hosting service website, based in Paris, France

Technorati (technorati.com)

An Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo