Archive for July, 2008
Disruptive Technologies or New Pedagogical Possibilities
Thursday, July 17th, 2008|
Grainne Conole of OpenLearn presented a talk titled Technologies or New Pedagogical Possibilities at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008. She focused on the “informational aspects” of Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom, particularly how they might (or might not) change pedagogical models. The video can be viewed here at iThinkEd. |
20 Most Useful Social Networking Sites
Monday, July 14th, 2008Also from Network World. The list includes Technorati, MySpace, reddit, SWiK, Newsvine, and Facebook.
More new Google Tech
Monday, July 14th, 2008From an article in Network World:
“The inspiration for the platform was the realization that the current social world is too static, according to Wang.
With Lively she wants users to be able to interact using words, 3D graphics and gestures. The furniture users pick for their room should give visitors an idea of who they are, and it is more poignant to receive an animated hug than seeing the text “[[hug]]” displayed on the screen, according to Wang.”
The full article, Google adds third dimension to online social relationships, can be read here.
Scanning to a Jump Drive
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008With the Scanner Terminals in the Learning Commons if you plug the jump drive in before the computer boots up, you’ll have no problem with the computer “reading” the drive. The “removable” drive was right there ready to save images, scans, etc.
However, if the H-Drive doesn’t show up, there is a alternative method to get it to appear.
If you are scanning a JPEG image use the following commands:
right click
open with
Microsoft Picture Manager
file (from the menu bar)
save I
For a PDF you would:
file (from the menu bar)
save a copy
ok
select the “drive” of choice
Also, once the desired drive (H-drive or jump drive) appears, if you select the scanned item you want to transfer, a menu on the left side of the screen will appear. This will allow you to move or copy the item to another location.