The ShoutOmatic platform lets Practitioners, Learners and other Stakeholders record short messages ("shouts") straight from their desktops and smartphones, and have them instantly delivered to others.
These short "shouts" can be used in so many different ways, within the learning environment,in a more personalised way than faceless emails, texts, tweets etc.

"Shouts" are particularly suitable for educational use since they all come with their very own QR codes; providing alternative communicat...
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Twitter is normally used to update statuses and share activity updates with friends. Twijector allows Twitter users to hold text conferences.

Twijector is a free to use web service providing a wall that can gather public tweets with a particular hashtag.

Choose a custom hashtag and ask your colleagues/learners/stakeholders to tweet with it. The wall will then show all the public tweets containing that unique hashtag. Options provided by the application include blocking certain users and using ...
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In the first of a new series of online 'radio' programmes – JISC on Air – they explore how digital technologies are helping universities to share reliable and consistent course information and support new students throughout the recruitment process.

Visit http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/jisc-on-air/ to find out more and/or listen to Episode 1: Successful Student Recruitment.

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AddThis is an easy, one-stop shop for sharing tools that can help a learning provider's current and potential stakeholders, share anything to anyone, anywhere.

AddThis helps their website publishers and bloggers spread their content across the web by making it easy for learners, practitioners, administrators, managers, etc., to bookmark and share content to their favourite social destinations.

AddThis maximizes the distribution of content and traffic brought to a learning providers site...

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Touration is an excellent service for adding a guided tour to your web presence.

Take a look at my first effort on the home page of this website http://www.acljohn.com/; by clicking on the
icon at the top of the Home Page.

The Next and Previous controls can be seen near the bottom of the screen once the tour has been opened.

All this without any scripting, just using a visual editor.

Increase user understanding by providing 'just in time' support, helping your visitors, learners, s...

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With such a diverse community across the UK today, there are plenty of good reasons to make learner provider websites and portals as accessible as possible to learners and other stakeholders from outside of the UK, or for those whom English is a second language.

The new version of the Microsoft Translator tool could therefore be really useful. It's free, and it translates web pages into 30 languages!

Basically, Microsoft Translator is a little web widget that sits on your website or port...

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Micro Mobs could be...

• a good private platform for hosting a backchannel chat in your learning environment;
  
• a good platform for keeping in contact with stakeholders - learners; employers; carers; colleagues etc.

Micro Mobs is a free service that allows anyone to create their own public or private micromessaging network.

To get started users just...

• name their mob (network);
  
• pick a URL; then
  
• register for an account.
  

Note: Users can register for a Micro Mobs account or use th...

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I've included Show my Homework, new website aimed at Schools, for two reasons...

1. a number of 'school practitioners' subscribe to the eMagazine, Blog etc.; and they will find this very useful; and
   
2. this could be used by our supported learning providers; not so much for homework, but for deadlines, assessment, etc.

Show my Homework is a free service for teachers to...

• post homework questions;
• upload worksheets; and
• set deadlines.
  

Excellent to raise awareness about homework at a school, o...

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Copyc does what it says on the tin website!

Either...

Copy & paste the URL into the text box on the website and click the check button;

Or...

when on a particular website type http://copyc.at/ in front of the URL in the Address window, followed by the enter key on your keyboard.

Copyc then checks the webpage and provides data that includes...

• General Statistics...
  • Number of Sentences
  • Number of Words
  • Average Word Length - both syllables and characters
    
• Technical Reada...

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Looking for...

• Live Chat;
• Email;
• Feedback System; and/or
• FAQ...

...communication channels in one simple interface?

Well a Jabber Live Chat and Feedback Widget for your website may just be the answer you are looking for.

As always I've tried it out on my website, http://www.acljohn.com/;

• when I'm signed in, using Trillian (Browser Version) the widget tells visitors I'm online and - visitors are able to chat with me live.
  
• when I'm not signed in, the widget tells visitors I'm offline and ...

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During October three of us, from the RSC Team, were involved with an eProgress Review with a learning provider whose staff were dispersed across the UK. Holding face to face interviews was not economical, or green, so we used skype to interview their staff. With the Call Graph Plug-in we were able to record the conversations. A very successful use of technology!

I've now come across an article in Time Magazine that starts...

"Get ready for a closeup: your next job interview might be on webc...

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ClockEasy can be described as an effective way to have a clock in your blog, website and/or VLE.

There is not any mysterious algorithm or complicated set of tools working behind this site. The truth is that this is a simple application that is can be highly useful and efficient when it comes to setting countdowns to important mile posts; deadlines, mile posts etc.

When visiting the site visitors will see the four main options they can use. Simple and uncomplicated, this is provides pract...

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If you want to make your emails a little more attractive and original/"corporate", head to Zuplo.

Zuplo is an new web service that offers a huge database of email stationery backgrounds to compose your messages on. More important, users can create personal backgrounds with their own pictures/logos etc.

Zuplo backgrounds work with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Thunderbird and many other major email services.

Find out more at http://zuplo.com/ or watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/w...
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