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Toby's e-learning stuff · 3M ago

Test Post

I don’t use this WordPress blog very often, since I finished the e-learning training that caused me to create it as a stash for research links, etc. However, I gather Blogger has an ever-shrinking percentage of the market, and lots of people have migrated. So this is just a test post to see if it [.
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Toby's e-learning stuff · 6M ago

Interfaces

Although this blog has more or less gone on hold, it remains a record of my self-funding of an e-learning course, without any specific aim to end up as an e-learning tutor. It complemented what I already found myself doing at work, and that remains somewhere between the techie who gets things to wor
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Toby's e-learning stuff · 8M ago

Net Training

Although I have spent over a decade supporting computer use for both staff and public in the Cardiff Library service, I have never become part of the ICT team. I found myself a niche role as a go-between. This also allowed me to work very flexibly, both in terms of working hours, and prioritising my
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Toby's e-learning stuff · 1Y ago

Wandering in Chapel Perilous

Too many lives, too many blogs – I posted a link to a different blog, with this title – and immediately made a broken link on Google when I deleted it from here. I don’t mean to create dead-ends and such, it can feel so frustrating.  The link originally was meant to go to a [...]
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Toby's e-learning stuff · 1Y ago

Creating work places

And talking of online activities of the pro-active kind, some of my friends have set up a Ning environment, as a social networking space we actually have some control over…including privacy settings, layout and look, and other tools. Better than Facebook! And I have been using Wikispaces to do some
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Toby's e-learning stuff · 1Y ago

Waves of websites

I got very enthusiastic about getting online, whether for family contacts, or for business. When you work as a self-employed person (doing something you enjoy, most of the time), the line between life and work and fun can get blurred… Julie Shackson finally used Weebly to get her artwork online, and
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Toby's e-learning stuff · 2Y ago

Still visiting occasionally

This blog got a bit gap-toothed, but it isn’t actually dead in the water and drifting… I still like my little collection of links – although I ought to check them all again, soon. For library work I have more regularly posted as Anon of Ibid, amongst other places online that I hang out. What [...]
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Toby's e-learning stuff · 2Y ago

Grrr – but ah, what’s this? Powerpoint Producer?

I have become a bit frustrated in the last couple of days, as the plasma display screens we have run on Linux, which doesn’t like a lot of Microsoft products, so we can’t use (say) Powerpoint to produce a livelier display. We need to convert PPT to MPEG files, if we don’t want a bare [...]
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Toby's e-learning stuff · 2Y ago

More fun to come!

My place of work has found me a place on an Open University course called Beyond Google:working with information online, which I am looking forward to. As I understand it, we will learn more precise search methods, how to assess information found, etc. You can follow that link for more detail, if it
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Toby's e-learning stuff · 2Y ago

Even more collaborative software

The hot news seems to involve Google’s latest wonder – a totally integrated format of real-time communication called Wave. The implications for education (let alone entertainment) haven’t really sunk in yet, but it seems ideally suited for remote learning. A beta gets released to guinea-pigs later t
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