by Cameron Nichol | May 20, 2020 | Best Bang for the Buck
Working from home laptop set up Working a few days from home is becoming more common but we don’t all have (or want) studies and specialised desks to work from. A lot of us just work off the most convenient table. Unfortunately working for long periods on your...
by Cameron Nichol | May 15, 2015 | Best Bang for the Buck, Ed Tech use, Open Ed Resources
First the DPLA is a free fantastic resource and they are wonderful people. “The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.” Not content with just...
by Cameron Nichol | May 1, 2015 | Best Bang for the Buck, Copyright, Ed Tech use
I often recommend Flkr as a location for free Creative Commons images. Unfortunately, just because the person uploading the image has listed it as Creative Commons always doesn’t mean that it is. Sometimes they are re-posting an image they have found elsewhere....
by Cameron Nichol | Mar 23, 2015 | Best Bang for the Buck
Patrick Norton and Shannon Morris formerly of Tekzilla (Rev3 cancelled the show), have rebooted their show on their own. It’s now called TekThing http://www.tekthing.com/ There is a short overview of 3 top alternatives to LastPass at the 6 minute...
by Cameron Nichol | Mar 20, 2015 | Best Bang for the Buck, Ed Tech use
One way to add questions to video is embedding videos in Moodle Lessons. It’s fairly fiddly and you have to chop your video into clips if you want to ask multiple questions. Unless you are very comfortable with Moodle there are easier options. Office Mix Office...
by Cameron Nichol | Mar 16, 2015 | Best Bang for the Buck, Ed Tech use
I have updated my webcams tips video (using my newer camera). It’s on my YouTube site which has a range of other recordings. This is also an experiment in using PowerPoint Mix to create multi-clip, webcam tutorial videos (as opposed to a PowerPoint with added...
