Tag: Tech
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A few of my favourite things
Moodle is now a ‘one click install’ on Dreamhost, where mikecosgrave.com is hosted. Moodle is an excellent OpenSource Learning Management System which I like because it has a built in wiki which is handy for collaborative writing exercises. Having it as a one-click install ( and therefore a one-click update ) is very convenient. It…
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Yes, I have a Bebo Page
..but I hardly ever bother to update it. I signed up for it because so many of my students have Bebo pages, and I figured I better know what I was talking about. Mostly, It just points to here – I find Bebo flat, and prefer to be able to work with style sheets and…
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Fun with Zotero
I’ve been using Zotero in ways which I suspect the designers didn’t think of, but I am lazy and creative when it comes to work. If you don’t know, Zotero is a Firefox plugin for managing bibliographic information in academic writing – it is an absolute gem for managing references, which are the bane of…
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Windows Free OCR
Did you know that XP has built in OCR? And it is actually good? I scan some books, but I also use my digital camera to capture a lot of books and archival research , which I can carry on my laptop as .jpgs. Using the Portable Apps version of Gimp, I can convert those…
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Updates
I’ve made several slightly overdue updates, and broke my theme in the course of the operation.
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Chasing Gaolposts
One of the problems of planning research on history and the new media in teaching is that you have to run to keep up. I’m finishing a research methods chapter for next years work, and this morning I find an article whoch requires adding another layer to the questions
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Gimme Back the old phone!
Gimme Back the old phone! I finally gave in and got a shiny new mobile, a Sony Ericsson v630i, and I’m disappointed My old Nokia 3200 was dying for a while – the back light was erratic for a while, some of the keys started dying this winter, the battery was loose and it would…
