Using ICT in Further Education

Google Alerts are updates of “the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic” sent directly to your email.

And, if you are not an email junkie, then your Google Alerts may also be delivered via RSS feed to the feedreader of your choice.

Six versions of alerts are offered including news, web, blogs, comprehensive, video and groups. Full details of the service can be found on the FAQ page.

WordPress Training provide excellent video tutorials covering all aspects of using Wordpress (version 2.5) including installing and upgrading.

Their hope is that WordPress Training will “appeal to both novice and experienced WordPress users. Whether you’re looking for a comprehensive overview of the entire WordPress system, or simple insight into a single administrative page“.

A very useful site. Hopefully, WordPress Training will be adding/amending videos to cover any new aspects associated with the new WordPress 2.7 version released this month!!

Sign up now for your free 1 year online subscription to PC Magazine from the Read Green Initiative.

“PC Magazine is America’s #1 technology magazine, delivering authoritative, lab-based comparative reviews of technology products and services to more than 6.6 million professionals every issue“.

Just enter your email address and register for an account with Zinio and that’s it. Your shiny new December issue of PC Magazine will be waiting for you in your Library section. You can read the publication online, in your browser, or download the Zinio reader and enjoy it offline.

If PC Magazine is not your ‘cup of tea’ then browse through the available subscriptions at the Read Green Initiative and pick the one that suits you best. You are allowed one free subscription per email account!

Thanks for this one Amit.

Create and customise your own feed widget in minutes at FeedFlash.

Simply enter the Feed, Blog or Website URL, edit the size and colours for the widget and then grab the code!

The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008, compiled by Jane Hart, has been finalised for this year. The list is based on the contributions of 223 learning professionals from around the world.

And, making it to number 1 is the highly versatile social bookmarking tool Delicious.

At BIGstage you can create your own digital 3D image, which you can then insert into photos, social networking sites and videos.

You easily create “a sophisticated, life-like 3-D model of your face – your Big Stage @ctor™ – by uploading digital photos of your face, taken with a standard digital camera.”

You can then “customize your @ctor with accessories, such as clothing, hairstyles, eyeglasses and more, and insert it into a growing library of movie scenes, TV and movie clips, music videos, virtual worlds, social networks, still images, video games, and advertisements to share with friends, family and colleagues.”

OK, so I haven’t thought of a good educational use for this yet but it’s just so ‘cool’, I had to spread the word

My thanks to Esther Shamsunder, for writing about BIGstage.

The Living Internet provides an “in-depth reference about the Internet” and “includes 700-odd pages” of information.

A grand resource for learning about the Internet and some of its common applications, the Living Internet is easy to navigate and also provides a keyword search box.

Favthumbs is a great little site that lets you visualize your Delicious bookmarks.

And, if you haven’t considered using Delicious yet then have a look at this great introductory tutorial, by Chris Betcher, from the recent K12 Online Conference.