The ‘Align or Distribute’ tool in Microsoft Office

There is a brilliant tool within Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or Excel, that allows you to easily align objects (e.g. shapes or pictures) so they are evenly spaced and perfectly aligned. When producing diagrams (e.g. flowcharts) – having objects neatly aligned makes them look much smarter and more professional, and using this tool, makes [...]

STOLEN principle wiki

People that have followed my work over recent months, will be aware of something called the STOLEN principle that I devised to help with the educational use of wikis. Details can be found at
http://www.a6training.co.uk/resources_Social_Software.php
I have been asked by a few people, if there is a wiki itself to allow people to edit (and I hope [...]

New e-assessment tool from the University of Derby

On Monday, I spent the day at my old employer – the University of Derby, who have a unit called I4L that have developed over the last few years a highly sophisticated e-assessment tool called Quicktri , that will hopefully be available for sale in the next few months. This is based on the universities [...]

Wikis in simple English

similar to the last posting, and from the same people comes…

RSS in simple English

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is not that easy to explain to many people. This simple YouTube video does a pretty good job!

Creating ‘Hover and Reveal’ resources with Flickr

Flickr – the image sharing website, can be used to very good effect as a teaching resource, with one such use being the creation of simple hover and reveal resources. Very good if you want to identify parts of say a piece of equipment, location of muscles in the body etc. All you need to [...]