WIKIs: setting your Notifications and posting a Discussion

Following on from that exciting ‘Advanced’ WIKI webinar in which nothing seemed to go right, I decided to produce a screencast on the topic of setting your Notifications to receive emails when someone posts a Discussion. Notifications are a powerful feature that makes your wiki interactive: everyone can follow the latest addition of content and discuss these collaboratively. At CNLC when a new member joins the Staffroom I advocate that the Notifications are set so that the new person can join in to group activities effectively. However, we’ve fallen behind Read More …

Evernote everywhere

It’s awhile since I promoted a web tool in this blog – but I’ve become a convert to Evernote, not just because the folks at Evernote proudly promote it with a video showing Jack and Jill (Jill’s the smart one with Evernote, Jack’s got sticky notes all over the place and is totally disorganised!). Evernote is widely used for grouping your Notes (free text) in Notebooks (folders of related notes) across platforms on a PC or Mac and synchronised to your Netbook/ laptop, iphone (apparently – I don’t have one Read More …

Collaborative authoring.. a live session

Thanks to all who attended this session.We attempted a “live document editing activity” during the session, which went pretty well i thought (michael). Jill was nervous about it, because she was running that activity, and it can be nerve-wracking. From my perspective, she was amazing. It takes a lot of skill to do application-sharing and web touring all at once. Here’s the presentation from the session. Please post any follow-up questions in the comments here, or over on the network “Ning”. Recording link to follow. 3pm, Tuesday 20 March. Learn all about Read More …

How to phone blog with iPadio – Listen to the recording of the webinar

#1) Live session / workshop – a North West Cafe webinar. One of the simplest ways to get people talking on the web: we’re running a session introducing newcomers to iPadio (phone blogging). Because people have such complicated lives, we’re running it twice. And we’re offering this out to the other regions, so we need to have your RSVP. A hands-on tutorial in making a phone blog using ipadio. For people with absolutely no experience in this wonderfully easy podcasting tool. For e-leaders in the current e-mentors program plus anyone else with Read More …