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 was looking at a post on Lifehacker about using the Jott speech-to-text service to add notes to Evernote or events to Google Calendar, and apparently it is cheaper for me to call a US number from my mobile than to call my house. The flat international rate quoted on the Vodafone website is 15c per [...]
I spent time today both talking about avatars for podcasts, and trying to improve my own avatar in Second Life, and I think the world needs a toolkit which will allow people to create a good avatar and make it portable between virtual worlds and for things like podcasts. What I have in mind would be a full body avatar, and therefore more complicated than Gravatar or Pavatar
Continue reading Avatar Me