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Employers value students with good communication skills. The advice in this article should help whether you’re presenting the features of a design proposal, giving a small internal presentation to staff or classmates or presenting your portfolio to a potential employer.
The giants of the Web world were at the WebVision 2005 Conference last week to explore the future of design, content creation, technology and business strategy. From podcasting to universal usability, attendees discovered how the Web is interacting with digital devices to change the way we communicate, access information and do business. Download or RSS feed these podcasts to your Ipod or equivalent.
An example of a next generation website. “This interactive magazine foreshadows the future with its use of hip new story forms and highly video-centric Web tools.” -2005 Batten Advisory Board Judges. This quarterly netcasting magazine integrates ISP broadcasting and print magazine information produced by individual backpack journalists ("solo-jo's") from England, the United States and South Africa.
This usability study reveals that current blog design
Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs. Technorati displays what's important in the blogosphere. Technorati tracks over thirteen million weblogs, up from 100,000 two years ago. The Pew Internet study estimates that about 11%, or about 50 million, of Internet users are regular blog readers. A new weblog is created every 7.4 seconds, which means there are about 12,000 new blogs a day. Bloggers — people who write weblogs — update their weblogs regularly; there are about 275,000 posts daily, or about 10,800 blog updates an hour.
This website is definitely not for access in the classroom. Mark Hurst has made a listing of online games that in his opinion offer a good experience: “good game design with an overall attention to quality”. The links to games are in turn links to other games that are in turn links to other games that are in turn........
This is a great article on the history of the Internet starting at the year 1640!!!! Read the article, follow the links and try to predict the future Internet. Here is the summary "A Computer Geek's History of the Internet. Not the complete history but just the cool stuff. The Internet history from the perspective of a computer geek who likes knowing more than what the instructions simply tell us.
Here are two articles to help you create podcasts that will amaze your teachers and impress your friends.
Students in the Conceptual Skills and Instructional Design classes have been creating innovative podcasts. If you've ever wanted to speak directly to your audience, here's your chance. While blogs give anyone with something to say a means to publish their views on the Web, podcasting give you a chance to create and post your own radio broadcasts.
Here are two great blogs that will enable you to create a blog that will help you (maybe) to become famous and make heaps of money. At the same time you will gain lots of experience that you can apply to many of your TAFE projects. Designer Blogs is a place to be inspired by others' blogs, learn tips and find resources to improve your blog's design. Problogger helps bloggers make lots of money.
Here are two WWW sources of free, royalty free MP3 music suitable for background to your Podcasts and Video Blogs.
Inspired by science fiction novels like Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash," which told of a sophisticated online virtual world called the "Metaverse," virtual world developers want to make digital environments as complicated and rich as the real world. Will these worlds be the TAFE classrooms of the future?Experience the wonders of EverQuest II. Play the tutorial and explore the Isle of Refuge up to experience level 6. Discover the legendary action, countless hours of content and beauty of this massive multiplayer virtual world. This easy-to-access 7 day trial requires no credit card or subscription.
This is a cell phone application that promotes the sharing of knowledge. It allows you to send and receive encyclopedia-type inquiries between specific, pre-defined groups of users, through Text messaging. You can register here on this site and start building quick-reference Cellphedia-type encyclopedia entries, by asking other users and answering other users' questions where-ever cell phone service is available.
This article from the BBC suggests new methods for searching the Web. Blinkx, Copernic, and Enfish are free software products that lurk in the background while you work on your PC and dynamically suggests links to web pages, locally-held documents and online news by working out what you are really interested in. Great for TAFE students doing research for projects.
You can ride the crest of the current revolution in brain research and learn easier, faster, better, and more enjoyably! The new scientific understanding of our most vital organ can help you improve everything about your learning -- from choosing your best times and places to learn, to setting grander goals for how much you grow. Based on the work of the world’s leading brain researchers over the past twenty years, here are the top five ways to enhance your learning..
Here’s a cool site with many Macromedia (Adobe?) Flash-based experiments in memory, perception, attention, etc. Try them out, it’s great fun!
Backpack is a free web based and hosted personal information manager that will benefit students. Launched today, Backpack will let you "plan trips, keep track of projects and assignments, plan projects, collaborate on a new ideas, keep track of things you're considering buying, gather information for a research project, keep a list of gift ideas for friends and teachers, brainstorm ideas, and plenty more..."
If you are interested in technology trends and developments I recommend that you subscribe (IT's FREE) to the Harrow Technology Report. In this issue there is an interesting article on battery technology. Almost every one of us has at least one (and often too many) electronic devices that are powered by batteries. If they're recent and rechargeable, they're likely powered by lithium ion batteries. Toshiba promises to introduce super charge batteries using "nano electrodes" in 2006 that can be fully charged in 10 minutes.
Here is an excellent tutorial on "Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday)". The tutorial will show you how to sign up and subscribe to blogs with Bloglines.It includes how to subscribe to RSS feeds and Podcasts. Lots of people have started doing regular audio programming or Podcasts on the web. Bloglines lets you subscribe to these Podcasts (think of Podcasts as audio blogs).
Google alerts is an excellent technology for keeping youself informed of current updates on the WWW in your subject areas and areas of interest. Use a very specific search expression, eg. "Flash"+"online tutorial", to limit your 'hits'. Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
