DigMo!

Yesterday I was involved in an interesting debate over the virtues of PowerPoint over Apple Keynote. The argument was more or less based on the idea that a suite of applications (iWork) can no way compete with Office that costs £100s. The premise was ‘you get what you pay for’. The good humoured debate went on for some time and this member of the medical professional swore he could not present to the level he needed with Keynote. Read more

Telestream have just released version two of their incredible screencasting application Screenflow. We were lucky enough to be amongst a team of beta testers and I have been busting to talk about the application on TotalApps for a number of weeks, especially when some readers began to spot the transitions in our latest tutorials.

Actually when I say beta testing it was virtually impossible to find anything wrong with the releases we received. Read more

I have been thinking over the last few weeks about school based pupil email provision. I have to confess we have been considering investing in an advanced Google Apps for education (paying so we can apply a policy) system for pupils after a very successful model with staff. When providing for pupils a school really can not provide any sort of ICT system  without some sort of save guarding filtering or quarantine policy and this is what Google charge for. Read more

I have decided to run a little poll to gather opinion on the iPad in the educational setting. The iPad is a revolutionary device not in function but on human computer interaction. A few years ago I tried to force an HP TabletPC into my education workflow. The concept was great but the practice and prize were limiting factors. Read more

By the very fact you are reading this article you have probably already embraced Web 2.0 and the idea of embarking on running a Virtual Learning Environment isn’t going to scare too much. Virtual Learning Environments don’t excite everyone  in education and nor should we expect them to. Read more