Developing using Studywiz

I discovered Gabcast last week accidently whilst trying to find AudioBlogger for Blogger, which apparently no longer exists.Gabcast allows you to post a voice recording to your blog or the Gabcast site using a phone. There is an RSS feed for your account, so others can subscribe to your recordings.

Examples on the Gabcast site [...]

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Below is a video tutorial explaining how to find and embed a Google gadget in to a multi-content resource.
There are a multitude of these gadgets – ones that might prove more useful include a countdown to a particular date, such as an exam; a periodic table that could be included in a science course; the current [...]

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Simon Mills’ blog suggests using Google gadgets on an interactive
whiteboard as a display when the board is not in use.
Two of the gadgets he refers to are the National Geographic Picture of the Day and the NASA Image of the Day. I created a multi-content resources using both, as the images below show.
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Studywiz is internet reliant. It is also software reliant. Teachers uploading a Word file or PowerPoint for students to access are anticipating that students have access to Word and PowerPoint. Clearly if they do not then they will be unable to access this content.
Multi-content resources offer a way of preparing content for [...]

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One of the qualities of a multi-content resource that could be improved is the ability to edit the appearance of text and images. I have been led to believe by colleagues that these features will soon been available through a more WYSIWYG friendly multi-content resource. In the meantime I have taken to using [...]

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