Task manager in Windows 7/Vista now Ctrl+Shift+Esc

The old ctrl+Alt+Del has been changed to Ctrl+Shift+Esc (who knows why??)

 

You can also right click on the task bar and select task manager

Three True Job Interview Questions

 

Top Executive Recruiters Agree There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions

1. Can you do the job?
2. Will you love the job?
3. Can we tolerate working with you?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2011/04/27/top-executive-recruiters-agree-there-are-only-three-key-job-interview-questions/

Free Programming

 

Codecademy is an easy way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends for free

http://www.codecademy.com/

Backing up Twitter Posts

From Steph

http://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/11/twitter-how-to-archive-event-hashtags-and-visualize-conversation/

Hidden text in Word 2007 and password protecting

Just a couple of Word things that I need when preparing examination papers!!

How do you remove Hidden Text from a Word Document?

Working with a copy of the document (just in case!!)

• Use Office button (or File) > Prepare > Inspect document > [Inspect]


• You will see the Hidden  Text option and a button [Remove All]

How do you add a password to your document?

• Use Office button (or File) > Prepare > Encrypt document and enter your password


• then re-enter it to make sure.

Warning - it is pretty well impossible to recover the document if you forget the password!!

How do you remove a password from a file?

• Use Office button (or File) > Prepare > Encrypt document and delete your password

 

Using Open Education Resources (OERs) in Blended Teaching: Is it worth it?

For the CITRENZ Conference in Rotorua, New Zealand ( http://www.citrenz.ac.nz) I prepared a paper "Using Open Education Resources (OERs) in Blended Teaching: Is it worth it?" using wiki researcher ( http://wikiresearcher.org/User:Mverhaart/CITRENZ/2011OER ).  While developing the paper I asked readers to help build the paper by either editing the paper or adding comments. Interestingly apart from two colleagues there was no feedback -there were many views however. One possible issue is the difficulty in adding ad-hoc comments (as a password/userid etc is required before you can edit/add a comment, a need to know wiki-code, etc..), so to provide another way to allow readers to make comments I have created this blog entry. So if you want to comment on the paper and feel more comfortable with adding to a blog entry, do so here.

 

eduMOOC: Introductions

Having tried to read many of the introductions realised that for a group with this number of participants (> 2000) the number of posts (220 at the moment) to read is just too many. An idea would be to ask participants to restrict their posts to just two short sentences. Also google groups lists in the oldest first rather than newest which is the opposite to things like twitter.