Browsing Archive: August, 2009

Diagrammr

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, August 28, 2009, In : Communication

Diagrammr is a new online application which offers a really pleasing way to create diagrams, and unlike other diagramming applications, it lets users do it by writing sentences.

The application is easy to use simply...

type in sentences like “John produces the eMagazine” or “John works with ACL” and Diagrammr will simultaneously convert them into diagrams.

Diagrammr lets users create as many diagrams as they like and allows users to share them by forwarding the URL or embedding the...
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Ring2Skype

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, August 28, 2009, In : Communication

Do you use Skype for communicating with learners?
Are you planning to get a SkypeIn number, so they can contact you on skype?

Wait! don’t buy yet, because there is an alternative and a free one.

Ring2Skype is a free service that allows users to receive calls on Skype from landline and other phone networks free of charge. As you might be aware, that SkypeIn offers the same service but you need to buy the numbers. Ring2Skype on the other hand, is free. That’s not all...

While Skype...

The integration of Google Translate into Google Docs

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, August 28, 2009, In : Google Docs

Google Docs, the preferred word processing tool for many learning providers, (especially for collaborative working) has just improved again. On the Google Docs blog, Google has announced the integration of Google Translate into Google Docs.

Users can now translate any document in Google Docs into their choice of forty-two different languages. To use the new translation feature, just select the "translate" option under the "tools" drop-down menu.

If practitioners have learners that live ...

Office Tab

Posted by John Dalziel on Wednesday, August 26, 2009, In : Microsoft

The one thing I like about 'New Browsers' is tabs. Taking cue from web browsers, developers have started embracing the “tab culture” and now we often see tabs in various applications.

For me, I would have liked to have seen them in Microsoft Office. It’s frustrating to be not able to open documents in tabs.

Wait no longer! OfficeTab, a free utility, fills this gap.

OfficeTab enables users to open multiple documents within one office window without cramming up your taskbar.

Wit...

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John Dalziel

Liverpool

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.