darren will surely love this but he’s not in these 2 days 😐
Survey tools review
In need for a free/paid survey tool, this table would definitely help 🙂 Great work!
Tagging, the next classroom tool
eSN has this article entitled “For some educators, tagging is ‘it’” that explores issues on tagging services, and the use of it for education. Read the article to get the full picture.
If you would like to explore some tagging sites, Del.icio.us and Flickr are two great examples to start with. Just type in something that comes to your mind in the “discover favourites” or “find a photo of” box, you’ll begin to see the wonders of tagging. And perhaps then we can start to think how we can integrate it into our teaching and learning processes 🙂
2 games
chanced upon these two games by the same programmer kevan, not sure how these 2 plain/text games will appeal to you though. check out nethack and urban dead 😮
Password no more?
Tired of remembering the 1001 passwords, and having to change some of them once every 3 months? Having nightmares about some of your account being hacked? Read this excerpt from New.com article “Gates: End to passwords in sight”
Now, with Windows Vista, Gates feels he finally has the right weapons to supplant the password as a means of verifying who is who on computers and over the Internet.
The new operating system, due later this year, introduces a concept called InfoCards that gives users a better way to manage the plethora of Internet login names and passwords, as well as lets third parties help in the verification process. Vista will also make it easier to log on to PCs using something stronger than a password alone, such as a smart card.
The full article goes here.