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Browsing Archive: June, 2011

Scheduled Tweets

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, June 26, 2011, In : Twitter 

Looking for an innovative approach to updating your Twitter account? Well this may help.

Part of my working day,and evening if I don't have enough time in the day, involves going through all the RSS Feeds I follow. This is the time when I am creating next month's eMagazine and the alternative blog and my website portal. It is also the time that I actually want to tweet a lot.

I have always felt that I shouldn't be tweeting lots of good "finds" within an hour and/or at the time I'm...


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VSee: an alternative to Skype

Posted by John Dalziel on Saturday, June 11, 2011, In : Video Conferencing 
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VSee is free for personal use so learners can collaborate without having to buy a subscription. I'm unsure how pricing would work for a learning provider-wide deployment, but VSee does mention options for non-profit use in their FAQ section.

VSee is an alternative to Skype, which many learning providers block, for hosting a video conference and sharing desktops with others. Just as with Skype, users can hold multiple party calls and share their screen with others.

Where VSee t...


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Popplet

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, June 3, 2011, In : Brainstorming/Blueskying 
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Popplet is an online Brainstorming/Blueskying tool...

A popplet is a big virtual pinboard that users can “popples” (boxes) onto.

A popple is container that holds...

  • text;
  • photos; and other interesting things such as
  • a Google Map; and/or
  • YouTube video.

Users can also upload media from their desktop to their board.

Popplet also offers a browser bookmarklet that users can use to add content from other webpages to their Popplet pages. An iPad app is also avail...


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Link directly to quotes in Web pages

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, June 3, 2011, In : Sharing 
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Many practitioners, and learners, would love to be able to direct others to specific sections on a website. Citebite provides a possible solution to do just that.

I say possible because it appears to depend upon the website you are trying to link to. When it does work it is excellent.

Visit http://citebite.com/ where users can manually create a citebite or add a bookmarklet to your browser of, if you use Firefox, add an extension.

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