Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Lots of diagram styles

From Sam M.

Based on sustainability, but can give lots of ideas for adaption in other areas.

http://computingforsustainability.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/visualising-sustainability/
..and more
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/50-informative-and-well-designed-infographics/

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Teaching ideas

100 Teaching Ideas - some nice learning activities here for when you need some inspiration http://icio.us/g4q14h

from @edgalaxy_com

Sunday, March 28, 2010

PowerPoint: Adding an animated clock

http://screenr.com/uQg

(other effects too)

I guess I'm going to see a lot of these at the next conference!!

Monday, March 15, 2010

Using JavaScript to increase browser text size

When I display my wiki on an overhead in class it is useful to increase the text size. At present I have to use page>Text Size> Larger. Using my "friend" Dr. Google (he/she?) who knows much more than me, came up with a solution by David Walsh ( a Sun Developer)  http://davidwalsh.name/change-text-size-onclick-with-javascript. There are lots of very tricky solutions out there including those that restyle every individual tag on the page. Note however the resize is only active on the current page (as its JavaScript) so if you go to another page you will have to resize again, unlike the Browser setting which persists.

Am looking to implement this in http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki soon.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The Social Media Cheatsheet (Infographic)

From Joyce

infographic that explains almost in detail everything about the social media channels, all in one comprehensive, brief picture. 10 social media channels are illustrated here including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Linked In, Digg, Stumble Upon, Yahoo Buzz, Reddit and Delicious,

http://www.dailybloggr.com/2010/03/the-social-media-cheatsheet-infographic/

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

QR-Code reader for mobile devices

A Quick Response (QR) Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code . You can use a QR -Code to store a web URL and use a mobile phone to photograph the QR-Code then using the software below display the actual site.