Archive for the ‘ Digital History ’ Category
As my title says, my lazy solution to what to say about podcasting is contained within the video below! Enjoy! [ READ MORE ]
Well, it was bound to come, my friend the mind map is back again. Not much to say on this really, I am very much an advocate of it’s use. In particular since the days of yore I have used Freemind for my mind mapping needs, it was an application I had become used to when [ READ MORE ]
RSS, what is it? A translation for the lay person, or indeed technophile is Really Simple Syndication, which probably makes the process no clearer! To equate it… what Facebook does in it’s ‘Home’ Page and what Twitter does. But RSS is for entire websites, updating you with everything that is updated on the website. While Facebook [ READ MORE ]
I know, I know. I must complete the third and final Building Blocks to success post but thought I would hold out on that for a little while yet. As it will be more of a summation of the process rather then a tackling of any particular digital tools to assist study, so instead I [ READ MORE ]
As mentioned in the previous post there would be a number of posts relating to this theme of Building Blocks to Success. The theme of this post is controlling Chaos. The previous post dealt with as can be seen by scrolling down, project planning and management of tasks. This is about preparing and managing material [ READ MORE ]
The title, I am inclined to say, says it all! Building blocks, it was the objective in the search for several tools for digital management of what I have found is becoming a rather expansive and extensive collection of digital resources for my research. This post will be the first of three dealing with what [ READ MORE ]
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Well, I was asked to throw this together for Dr. Scully in my MA Class for the other students in my class as well as hopefully it being useful for anyone else who stumbles across it. The objective being giving the class a digital perspective on presentation through Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 as I believe it to [ READ MORE ]
This blog comes in response to the reading of an article in the technology supplement in the Irish Times. This article highlighted by Mike our lecturer in Digital History caught my attention. The idea of a focus on education, the idea of re-education. An important lesson I felt could be applied was the idea of [ READ MORE ]
This is a list compiled and led by Jane Harte, the full 100 are here (-http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html). This project aimed to categorise and list those applications and programmes which are most useful to educators and students alike. And while this is an expansive list I don’t plan on tackling and reviewing individually everything that they dealt [ READ MORE ]