Yet another reason, perhaps, that YouTube and Facebook shouldn't be blocked!

The YouTube Social website lets practitioners and remote learners watch YouTube in a truly collective way.

On the YouTube Social website...

• practitioners can create "viewing parties" by merely adding the word "social" to any YouTube URL that they want to watch with their learners...
• Upon doing so, a new URL is generated, and...
• this URL can then be sent to invite learners to the "viewing party".

When invited le...

Recently I included an article about paper.li, a service that lets users create a Daily Twitter newspaper from the tweets of those they are following.

MyTweetMag, takes a different approach; it lets a user (the Editor) and up to 5 Co-Editors create a Twitter magazine from their own (selected) tweets.

If you decide to give it a try then you can...

• Join with your twitter-account;
• Start your own magazine...
  • give it a name and ...

Death by PowerPoint - get rid of the endless bullet points!

This and many other 'audience led campaigns' have gained ground in recent years and now, Olivia Mitchell, and other like thinkers, are beginning at last to provide a backlash.

With the adoption of pecha-kucha and more thought about their audiences, I have seen more great presentations in the past year than in the past 6 that I've been with the Regional Support Centre. Put together and they have made a positive difference...

• mo...

Skype has released a Beta update for Windows. The second beta of Skype 5.0 brings a number of changes both outside and in – most importantly, users can now make group video calls with up to 10 people.

It also welcomes in a fresh new look, as well as increased stability and better quality when making group video calls.

Note: everyone in a group video call now needs to be running this new version, so if learners, colleagues, friends or family are using other versions, they'll have to up...