January 2008
7 posts
ND Photography on moodle →
Here’s an example of Dan at work
Access Denied (but maybe not for long) →
You may really have a good reason to access a web site that has been blocked by your employer’s IT Services or some catch-all, over-protective bit of management software. You can. Try this. Type http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.site.com in the address bar, replacing www. site.com with the url required. This often works because Google has a translation service to help...
Storm in an IT Cup →
Michael Lasky’s article today in PC Advisor has caused a storm of outbursts from IT Support and others. Titled: 7 fun things IT support wants to keep secret, Transfer huge files, chat and surf at work, you can guess what’s it’s all about. Yes, what most students do but staff shouldn’t. Can’t resist passing these on, purely for colleagues to be aware of what may be...
News from Brighton Peer →
Lecturer bans students from Google and Wikipedia January 14, 2008 Brighton Argos and PC Advisor, Feb 2008 issue Professor Tara Brabazon, a media studies lecturer from the University of Brighton (apparently there is such an institution), has banned students from online research. Specifically, the Prof is unhappy with the feckless, unwashed layabouts simply rehashing the first thing they find on...
2008 Resolutions (the boring work-related ones) →
It’s traditional at this time of year to tell everyone what we resolve either to do or not to do, presumably on the grounds that there will then be the big incentive of avoiding embarrassment of not sticking to them! Here are mine. 1 Not to swear loudly in class when there is a huge delay for students opening Office files while applications are being ‘installed’ every day 2 Not...
13 Biggest Tech Flops of 2007 →
I reproduce below extracts from PC Advisor’s list, presented in reverse order, just to keep you guessing! One thing they all have in common (apart from my agreement with all that they say!) is that we all had expected so much from them but have instead been left either a bit disappointed or frustrated. Here goes . .
#13. Screwed up to the max: Municipal WiMax It sounded like a great idea:...
Create Your Own Academic Webpage →
The blurb says “Academia.edu enables graduate students and professors to create academic webpages very easily.” You don’t need to be a professor - just have a .ac.uk or .edu address! It also has discussion rooms, and a paper-tracking engine, that allows academics to track the latest papers uploaded to the web in their field. I’ve just tried it out and created this page in...