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Feeling lonely in a webinar

I just finished listening to a webinar on new features of the survey tool Qualtrics, whichwe use in our BA study program. As neither Elluminate nor Adobe Connect was used, I had hoped to get a good glimpse of what is possible with GoToWebinar / GoToMeeting. However, I cannot give a good overview as only [...]

Waiting for the (Google) Wave

Since last Thursday I have picked up snippets of buzz around Google Wave and finished watching the demo video today (had kept it for my workout to have that pass more quickly ). I am just speechless and can’t wait for it to be publically available.
Wave is a new communication tool that is [...]

Youtube’s unequal display rights

While watching “Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009″ on YouTube, I saw two new buttons to the top right of the video. They allow you to dim the lights on the page and to open the video in a separate window.
The result is that all the noise is either turned off by the [...]

What’s plan B?

A week ago, Steve Wheeler was supposed to present on Edupunk in the Forth Online Round Table of educamp. Unfortunately, his tech equipment and the university servers left him in the lurch. While Steve was trying frantically to get back online, Graham Attwell rescued the situation with PowerPoint Karaoke over Steve’s title slide (you can [...]

Chatting to strangers randomly

I have had a tab with Omegle open in my browser for a couple of days now (and thus forgot from where I got the link ) until I got my nerves together to try the service. Leif K-Brooks, its founder describes it as following:
Omegle is a brand-new service for meeting new friends. [...]