Media and writing

This is the 4th in the Feb Five series of seminars. I started by sending a text tweet. I use Twitter in conferences as part of the backchannel. You just need a mobile phone and a twitter account that’s been set up also to receive messages from the phone to do this.

This seminar […]

PowerPoint Alternatives Oct 2011

Here is a summary of the things that I presented during the seminar. It’s a Mahara Page, available via a secret URL.

Here’s a copy of the handout.

Here’s the wonderful TED talk by computer security expert Mikko Hyppönen: Fighting Viruses, defending the net.

“I’m not shaving off my beard…” and other accessibility myths

Do you want to make your notes more accessible for your students/colleagues? You should do. If you don’t anticipate that you could have disabled students/colleagues and if you do not make reasonable adjustments in advance, then you could be breaking the Law.

You don’t have to shave off your beard (if you have […]

Pdf files

The main thing that I am showing people at the Moodle training sessions is: how to convert a Word document or a PowerPoint presentation to a pdf file. It can reduce the size of the ppt (pptx) file greatly and using a pdf is a much more professional way of viewing an item: students […]