Two months ago on January 8th I passed the 10,000 visit milestone from when I started the blog back in June 2007.
Now just a short two months later I have passed the 20,000 visit milestone.
Thanks to everyone who has visited and hopefully enjoyed reading my ramblings on e-learning and ILT.
Here’s to the next 10,000 visits.
The BBC launches a version of its iPlayer video on demand service for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.
The BBC has launched a version of its iPlayer video on demand service for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. It is the first time the software has been available on portable devices. The software, which allows users to download programmes from the last seven days, will work over a wi-fi connection but not over the mobile network.
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I am really pleased to see this happen. I do use the (flash version) of the iPlayer on my Macs now and again to catch up with the odd BBC TV programme either I miss or my EyeTV misses.
This will allow me to catch up either at home or say over lunch at work (on our new learner wireless network).
Obviously from a licensing perspective we can’t use this within the college to show BBC programmes to learners, but this does now allow learners who have an iPhone or an iPod touch to watch the useful or interesting BBC programme on the iPlayer.
Today sees the release of Moodle 1.9.
Our latest release fresh from over 5 months of community beta testing and improvements. This release is like a “gold reference” version, but usually the daily build above will be even better. Moodle 1.9 not only has lots of requested new features but some very large performance improvements over Moodle 1.8. We recommend all sites upgrade to 1.9 as soon as practical, especially if you are seeing poor performance in some areas.
Thanks Gary.
From the Guardian…
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At a recent MoLeNET podasting event, my colleague John Whalley spoke about PhotoStory 3 for Windows.
Create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and captions. Small file sizes make it easy to send your photo stories in an e-mail. Watch them on your TV, a computer, or a Windows Mobile–based portable device.
You can download the software from Microsoft (follow the link above).
A quick demo of how it works.
Interesting report from Macrumors.
Analyst predictions of a 3G iPhone are nothing new, but a new report points to specific sources knowledgeable about this anticipated update. After meeting with Taiwanese electronics companies Citigroup’s Richard Gardner claims that his sources have confirmed that the 3G iPhone will be released in 2nd Quarter calendar year. If correct, this would pinpoint the release between April-June 2008.
I decided not to get an iPhone as it was not 3G.
BBC reports on how Microsoft has signed a deal with Nokia to put Silverlight on Nokia phones.
Silverlight is seen as a competitor to Adobe’s Flash, which is already used by popular websites such as YouTube.
The software will first be available on Nokia’s high end smart phones running a Symbian operating system.
Read more.
When is an UMPC not an UMPC?
When it’s a 9″ UMPC.
The infamous little EeePC is getting bigger by two whole inches.
Coming out next year with a bigger screen, the EeePC will still be running Linux but will also be available with Windows XP.
Compared to the original 7″ EeePC the 9″ model is not that much bigger, so will still be relatively just as portable.
Engadget on the 9″ EeePC, ASUS’ 9-inch Eee PC and Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC.
I really enjoyed reading Bill Thompson’s column on the BBC News website this week, where he wonders about how technology will change teaching.
If every student has a powerful network device that plugs them into the network, and work on digitising every book and other forms of knowledge has been successful, then what is the point of teaching “facts”?
He makes the very valid point.
Just as we try to encourage kids today to learn enough mental arithmetic to decide whether to believe the calculator’s answer, so we need those using tomorrow’s vast supercomputers to have a sense of what is going on that will allow them to judge the validity of the answers they get.
Overall an interesting column, well worth a read.
