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Music videos are once more available to YouTube viewers in the UK after the streaming site reached an agreement with songwriters’ group PRS for Music.
In March, YouTube blocked thousands of music videos to UK users, after failing to reach agreement over fees.
Read more.
Following on from the success of the Hood 2.0 Workshop at ALT-C last year, at this years ALT-C I shall be running another workshop, Hood 2.1 – it’s still a Web 2.0 World out there.
Background
Web 2.0 is exciting and innovative, with new services appearing almost daily. These services can incorporate social networking, video and audio production, sharing, collaboration and user-created content. Some will be useful for providing information and entertainment, some will allow us to create innovative learning activities.
This stimulating and interactive workshop will explore new Web 2.0 services that can be used to solve some of the issues facing learners.
Ideas to be explored
During the workshop participants will be shown different learning scenarios and activities that utilise a range of new and exciting Web 2.0 services.
It is expected that the workshop will utilise the newest and most exciting Web 2.0 services out there, but could include: the use of Audioboo.fm for fieldwork; using Jing to create learning resources and web reviews; and using ipadio to allow learners to create a series of work-based podcasts.
Participants will discuss and debate the Web 2.0 service and the scenarios in small groups, covering how they could be utilised within their own institutions.
The groups will also discuss how the pedagogy needs to drive the scenarios and not the technology, and address how Web 2.0 can empower learners to take responsibility for their own learning. Each group will provide feedback through either a blog entry, an audio podcast or a video presentation. These will then be made available online to allow further comment and discussion beyond the workshop, and also allow other conference delegates to participate.
Intended outcomes
The participants will have a greater understanding of the innovative role of Web 2.0 to support.They will have considered how Web 2.0 can be used to redesign the pedagogy, the curriculum, and assessment methods to secure a substantial positive impact on learning.
The participants will have presented the results of their discussion to other participants and to other delegates through the use of a variety of learning technologies and Web 2.0 services. This will allow them to understand which services are innovations of true value, rather than mere fads.
I thought this should be straightforward, but in the end ran the installation application three times before I managed to install all applications and all options.
I am impressed with the speed and efficiency over my older PPC apps and so am well pleased.So far have only run Fireworks and Dreamweaver. Was impressed with the fact that Dreamweaver “found” my sites and I could instantly start using Dreamweaver to edit my website.
After much deleting and arching I have freed up 200GB of hard disk space.
I do consider it strange that I now view 200GB as “small” when a few years ago I considered 250MB Iomega Zip disks as “huge”.
The iMac I use the external drive with only has an internal drive of 250GB, which is why I now use an external 1TB drive as my main startup disk.
The first laptop I was given at work had a “huge” hdd, 20MB, yes MB not GB.
I am going out to buy some more external storage, I have started to look at 2TB drives… I have considered a Drobo, but am wondering about the noise, I do like my quiet Lacie Poulton 1TB drive and will probably get some more of them.
After much contemplation, thought and waiting, I have gone out and purchased a copy of Adobe CS4 Master Suite.
I have wanted to upgrade Dreamweaver and Firefox for a while as my previous versions are PPC and have never worked well on my new Intel iMac.
Knowing my luck, Adobe will announce CS5 tomorrow!
ITV bought Friends Reunited for £175m, now amongst other financial troubles they have sold it for just £25m.
The BBC News reports
ITV has sold Friends Reunited for £25m, despite having agreed to pay a total of £175m for it in 2005.
So who has bought it?
The buyer is Brightsolid Limited, which is owned by DC Thomson, Dundee-based publisher of comics such as the Beano.
An old time publisher…
Hmmm…
I wonder what they (if anything) will do with it.
The problem that I would say is that Friends Reunited’s time has passed. People who are love it are still there, those who tried it have moved onto other things, like Facebook or Twitter.
Would you go back to Friends Reunited?
There have been a billion downloads of Firefox.
The BBC reports
The open-source browser Firefox passed its billionth download on Friday, ahead of the release of its fourth iteration.
The milestone includes downloads of all versions of the web software since its first release in 2004.
Figures suggest that Firefox now has nearly one third of the browser market worldwide, at 31%.
Though I use other browsers, generally Firefox is the browser I probably use the most. Some of those billion are my downloads.
Today despite a strong green light the Airport 802.11g network that my Airport Express provides was nowhere to be seen.
I couldn’t see the Airport Express in the Airport Utility either, despite it been connected to my network via cable and I was using my 802.11n network.
In the end I power cycled the Airport Express, twice and this resolved the issue.
This happens now and again with Airport base stations, mainly the older the 802.11g base stations in my experience.
It’s a risk…
