http://rell.edublogs.org Education, ICT, E-learning, Web2, Whitewater & Powder. This is the weblog for a paddler turned desk-keeper. Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:51:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The new online storage site Adrive is offering new users a staggering 50Gb of free storage just for signing up. The site is clean and quick and accepts most common file types including documents music and images. This site is going to prove a very useful companion to my Asus ... http://rell.edublogs.org/2008/03/03/free-online-storage/ Here we go again. Back to work for the long slog to Easter. Just to remind myself that there's more to work than work here's a pic of my first sunday lunch for 2008. The view is looking west(ish) from the top of the Cross Country ski trails at Clashindarroch Forest near ... http://rell.edublogs.org/2008/01/07/new-year/ Convert any photo into a talking character! PQ Talking Photo will do the job nicely. Create animated characters from any photo you want. Automatically match lip movement with voice. Create your talking photo album, live avatars on blogs, funny greeting card, pets talk show, etc. http://rell.edublogs.org/2007/12/19/talking-photos/ On 30th October we ran a session on Blogging for the Curriculum Support teachers. Unfortunately our internet access was extremely slow and hampered our ability to deliver a slick session. http://rell.edublogs.org/2007/10/30/session-for-the-cst-team/ Stumbled across this site when I was sent an email about Windows Photostory 3. More about that later. Pageflakes is a cusomisable personal website which uses WebParts or "flakes" to assemble the pages. You simply choose the flakes you want and drag them onto the page. You can put just ... http://rell.edublogs.org/2007/07/14/pageflakes/   A question I often ask myself !! Today I received an invitation to fill in an on line questionnaire for a large organisation which supplies ICT services and equipment. As I worked through the questions I was trying to work out what they were going to do with the information ... http://rell.edublogs.org/2007/07/12/what-do-you-think/ Google TiSP (BETA) Not satisfied with your service provider? Feel like a mushroom? Web access is slow and you're bombarded with Spam? This new service from Google is probably just what you're after. http://rell.edublogs.org/2007/06/13/google-launch-new-isp-service/ Spent much of today exploring the Glow Portal. It has just been switched on for the 3rd pilot. I still find it hard to navigate around in there. I have the experience of finding something interesting, navigating away and then spending ages trying to get back. Still no VLE. ... http://rell.edublogs.org/2007/06/12/its-back-glow-returns/ Quite a title for this really useful little utility from Ron Mitchell at the LondonOnline project. You can download the programme and use it at no cost. It creates very neat flash based drag and drop routines with embedded sound and jpeg images. I've put a quick example here. ... http://rell.edublogs.org/2007/06/11/picture-grid-learning-object-creator/ The Glow initiative appears to be suffering some last minute hiccups - which is hardly suprising given the size of the project. LTS have delayed the training of Glow Mentors and have also suggested that the training be done locally rather than travelling to Stirling. Our own mentors here in ... http://rell.edublogs.org/2007/06/06/glow-training-delayed/