aclJohn's Communication Finds

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...

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...

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...

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.

If you have some data that you want to convey and are searching for an original way to present it, I'd suggest trying out Daytum.

Daytum is a free, customizable web page that allows users to display facts and figures in a newspaper style outlay.

I've had a play, which you can see at http://www.daytum.com/acljohn; by displaying tags from posts during 2011, users can see the comparative frequency of "blog inclusion" and, when links are clicked the dates of the blogs when they were inclu...

SignApp Now is a simple way of creating sign up sheets. It's so simple users don't need to register to use it.

Just...

• create a sign up sheet and
  
• email its unique link (URL) to everyone you'd like to sign up.
  
• They just need to visit the link and
  
• sign up.
  

Why not use SignApp Now instead of using email to get sign ups.

Users can download the sign up list in Excel format after the sign up period remo...

Skype is a free (for most purposes) service that learning providers and their practitioners are using to connect stakeholders across the town/city/region/country/globe. It's not surprising therefore that an increasing number of learning providers are using Skype for..

• Learner /Employer/Stakeholder Voice;

• Remote assessments - Job Knowledge Questions/Interviews, ITQ & other ICT/IT observations etc.;

• Delivery of "course elements" to learners based over a large area;

...and so much m...

nooCard is quite possibly the easiest mobile webpage users can create.

Simply...

• sign up;
• create; and
  
• publish the resulting nooCard url publicly on the internet.
  

Anyone with a mobile browser will be able to instantly see the nooCard. There is nothing to install.

Visit http://www.noocard.com/.

My nooCard is available at http://noocard.com/u/acljohn/.

SpeakingImage is an application for creating interactive images and share them with others.

Along with textual annotations, users can add different coloured layers specifying certain parts of the image.

The annotations and layers are all interactive i.e. labels are displayed when visitors place the mouse pointer on them. Moreover visitors can choose which layers to view and which to hide. All these features work together and create images that "say" a lot more.

Currently Speaking Im...