Connecting 2 the World

JULY 10, 2008

'One area that has been missing in the discussion of Work Literacy is the ability to adapt to different cultures. Defining Culture I feel it is important to begin by defining what I mean by culture. In the US, we tend to use a narrow definition of culture as something that is: a) foreign (different than our own US culture), b) uniform (everyone within a culture thinks the same and a person belongs to "a" culture), and c) identified through rituals and artifacts (rather than differences in values

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Nik Peachey

JULY 7, 2008

Well it had to happen! As every other kind of site these days has a social network attached to it, why not karaoke too? The site I've been looking at is called RedKaraoke and it has quite a few useful features. There isn't a huge range of songs there yet, but users can upload their own, it also has a web cam feature so for potential singers who want to be seen as well as heard you can have your web cam hooked up while you sing.

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Nik Peachey

JULY 18, 2008

Well I never thought I'd say this, but I've become a fan of microblogging ! I have to say that it's mainly because of Plurk. When I first saw Twitter some time back I couldn't really understand what all the fuss was about. I had a look at a few 'twitterers' sharing such information as what they had for lunch or that they were washing their hair and decided there are levels of detail at which information stops being informative - if you know what I mean.

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Nik Peachey

JULY 29, 2008

I've been blogging on this site now for just over a year, so I thought that just before I head off on my holiday for a couple of weeks, I would leave you with what I feel were some of my best postings over the last year or so. Creating audio-visual monologues Back in April 2007 I wrote about a nice bit of free recording and lip syncing software that enables students and teachers to create small animated flash characters like this one.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Nik Peachey

JULY 24, 2008

It's amazing how you can spend ages looking for something you want and then when you find it a whole bunch of other things come along with it. That seems to be the way things have happened for me with video conferencing. I found and posted about tokbox last week and then came Bubble Comment this week which I wrote about on my Quick Shout blog , and now Bubble Joy!

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Nik Peachey

JULY 16, 2008

It's not often that you look at a product and think 'Ah! That's exactly what I've been looking for! And it's free!' But tokbox does seem to be that kind of product for me. For some time now I've been looking round for a suitable video conferencing type application and while there have been a few that look okay, like SnapYap which I reviewed a week or two back, when I saw tokbox this morning I realised that here was a video conferencing tool that had exactly what I wanted and a bit more.

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Connecting 2 the World

JULY 3, 2008

Well, not really, but while I am adventuring around Europe this northern summer, I’m using Friend Feed , a useful aggregating service to suck in all of my shares on Flickr , Twitter , Seesmic , Tumblr , del.icio.us and elsewhere on my growing social network. And I wondered why I wasn’t getting so much (proper) blogging done lately! I’ve been using Friend Feed for a week now and find it immensely useful to track my own friends’ postings from diverse services.

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Nik Peachey

JULY 1, 2008

Creating your own personal homepage / feed reader can be really simple to do and can also help you to save time and stay in touch with what's going on in your professional and personal life. My own personal home page is something I use everyday and have open for most of the day. It brings me the news from all my favourite websites, blogs and yahoo groups and allows me to scan content from 20 -30 different sources within a few moments.

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