I’m playing round with Adobe Captivate, moving slides from 3 old powerpoints on UN Peacekeeping into one Captivate presentation which I’ll use today as a flash movie, and also make available to my class as a .avi movie and an audio only podcast. I’m fining it a lot of work, but I think the extra flexibility of Captivate will be worth it in the long run. This version is very basic, and does not yet take advantage of all the possibilities like quizzes, or branching navigation. You can theoretically do all of those in Powerpoint, but it is much more work – I found my way round the workspace in Captivate very quickly, and find it faster for more advanced work. Continue reading Captivating
I find odd but I suppose it is in keeping with their perspective that the Sudanese government are considering demanding reparations from France for the ‘incursion’ into Sudan by French peacekeepers attached to EUFOR in Chad during which a French soldier was killed by the Sudanese military. Short version – French get lost driving in desert, wander into Sudan, get shot. Longer version..well..read below the fold
Continue reading Sudan demands reperations from France
Did you know that XP has built in OCR? And it is actually good? I scan some books, but I also use my digital camera to capture a lot of books and archival research , which I can carry on my laptop as .jpgs. Using the Portable Apps version [...]
I have mixed feelings about the news that the Danes have completed a ‘secret’ evacuation of 200 Iraqis who worked with them from their area of operations in Iraq.
Continue reading Evacute the translators
So the 2006 Mid East war rages on, and apparently is scheduled to end next week, because Bush has given Israel that long to finish destroying the ‘infrastructure’ of Hezbollah. It raises, in passing, an interesting question about the definition of ‘terrorist’ in international politics – surely if you possess ‘infrastructure’ you have passed into the last of Mao’s phases of guerilla warfare, and become a quasi-state?
Continue reading Terrorist infrastructure?
I don’t see how the current peace deal between the Sudanese Government and the largest opposition group can hold up without the support of the smaller opposition groups in Darfur
Continue reading Can the Centre hold in Darfur?
The EU appears to be taking Peacekeeping in the Congo very seriously, if the commanders for the EUFOR RD Congo are an indication. Continue reading EU gets serious about Peacekeeping