Take your computer with you with PortableApps!

10 November 2008

Sometimes we have to use computers that are not our own. Many times we have more than one that we use – for example one at home and one at school. Wouldn’t it be great if you could take all of your settings from one computer to the next, instead of having to configure each individually?

Enter Portable Apps. It’s a suite of free and open-source applications that can be installed anywhere, including a USB flash drive. Users can then run the applications from there, in effect ‘taking their settings with them’!

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How to create engaging video starters without any creative talent using Animoto

7 October 2008

Students inhabit a visually-rich, media-driven world. Sometimes, as educators with limited time on our hands, it’s difficult to compete. Animoto is an easy-to-use and extremely powerful way of creating short videos to grab students’ interest. Better still, it’s free for educational use!

Follow the guide below to get started… :-)

How to create engaging video starters without any creative talent using Animoto – Upload a Document to Scribd

Here’s a video I produced using Animoto in an attempt to encourage more Year 9’s to opt for GCSE History:

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Posted by Doug Belshaw