Firefox 3.0 has been officially released (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/) and apart from being much faster at rendering web pages and images, has a whole host of neat features and advantages. If you haven’t tried Firefox yet instead of Internet Explorer this release of Firefox is definitely one to try. One of the advantages that Firefox has is…
Just came a across a very cool gadget for anybody using Firefox (2.0 or now 3.0), PicLens (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579). It’s a simple addon that for certain websites where there is a lot of images, such as photos or videos, allows you to browse these as a picture wall which you can scroll along. Which for YouTube…
Doing a recent survey of the type of password that children use*, it was interesting to see that most are savvy about their passwords and in some respects forced me to revise my own ideas about the whole issue of internet security and use of passwords. Okay there was a small proportion who use daft…
Stumbled across a number of interesting sites today while searching for an audio tagging tool… and quickly realised that audio tagging can mean several things. Most often its associated with the ID3 tags associated with MP3 files such as artist, song etc and there’s numerous tools which allow you to do that. However, what I…
By way of introduction I’ve been researching educational technology since 1999 looking at how technology is used and can help education for students from K12 to adult distance education. I have a particular interest in how collaborative technologies particularly what we know as Web 2.0 technologies can be used for education, but also the much…
