Thursday, September 24, 2009

Shift happens did you know 4.0?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8
The link to this video is via the Australian Learning Framework website. The video will "inform you about the brave new world of social media and newfound communication technology.
And we will be doing it soon! Is'nt it fantastic that soon we will SMS our overdues, reservations etc.
Before we know it we will be issuing mobile phones complete with internet, ebook reader, to students!

Water lilies


Water lilies, originally uploaded by Diwa.Jeannie.

Shaykamuni Buddha


Shaykamuni Buddha, originally uploaded by Diwa.Jeannie.

Monday, September 14, 2009

iGoogle - is growing on me

As an avid Google fan I had high expectations of iGoogle. I applaud the concept of having one webpage to bring all my google tools together It is fantastic to be able to access gmail, blogger, google docs and google reader from the one page. Google reader is not working properly at the moment. I can only access my gardening feeds. This could be a hint that I need to buy a lottery ticket so I can spend all my time my working in the garden and post pictures of myself to Flickr, and send a gardening with Jeannie video to youtube! I clicked on the "about this gadget" and read that several people are experiencing problems with Google reader gadget.
Does anyone know how to add Groupwise email to igoogle?
I imagine that students would love iGoogle, they can bring all their favourite social networking sites together. The University of Sussex has created an "igoogle gadget" for their library catalogue. You click on the gadget and you are prompted for your igoogle login and uni sussex library gadget appears on your igoolge page, I can now search the University of Sussex library! We could create one for spydus. Liaision Librarians could share their iGoogle pages with their program groups.