Archive for the 'web 2.0' Category

Create a comic this Christmas

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

A new website from comic masters Clickwheel is bringing comic creation to the masses. Comicbrush allows users to create, publish and share comics.

Translation tools

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Online translation tools have improved enormously since the early days of Babelfish and there is now an ever increasing number of free translation tools available.

The future of instant messaging?

Friday, November 27th, 2009

With all the excitement surrounding Google Wave, it’s easy to forget that there are other services such as Yuuguu looking at the future of online communication and collaboration, and alternatives to email and instant messaging.

Website Blocking: bear hunts, battlefronts and missed opportunities?

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytc0U2WAz4s

What you’ll hopefully have found is Michael Rosen, possibly the UK’s most celebrated children’s poet, performing ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’, at your finger tips. A brilliant opportunity to engage with a crafted performance of a poem, directed at the viewer, with sub-titles to read along with. A valuable resource, right there in your living room, office, or wherever else you access the internet. But not in your classroom.