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Browsing Archive: February, 2011

URL Void

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, February 3, 2011, In : Security 

How can learning providers teach their learners employing legitimate, useful websites and avoid those holding viruses and malware?

One way is to encourage practitioners and their learners to scan through website resources they plan to use/visit in the learning environment with URLVoid; a free service that puts a URL address through their paces.

URLVoid...

  • uses various virus search engines to scan a website;
  • provides a report that can be used to evaluate the safety of the websit...

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Internet buttons

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, February 3, 2011, In : Access 

Internet Buttons...

  • is a free to use website;
  • lets users place brightly colored buttons on a webpage...
    • these buttons act as shortcuts to other URLs
    • users choose how many buttons to place on their webpage;
    • the selection is saved through the account users create;
    • users can name the buttons whatever they want and choose a different color for each button.
Via a public URL to their buttons page users can access the startpage from anywhere.

This simple way of labelin...


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John Dalziel
Liverpool

John Dalziel I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.

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