Archive for May 22nd, 2007

If you are a Blackboard user, here is a del.icio.us/Scuttle social bookmarking service that plugs right into the learning management system.  It’s called Scholar.  You must have Blackboard to add bookmarks to the system.  Without a Blackboard server you can search through the links made public by Blackboard users.  Browsing isn’t too bad because all the links are connected to courses with academic content.  There aren’t as many links in the database, but a search will have a higher probability of a valuable hit.

Having social bookmarking built into the LMS solves a lot of the problems inherent in larger sites like del.icio.us.  All the bookmarks in Scholar can be grouped by course.  A student or an instructor can have generic bookmarks or bookmarks associated with specific courses.

Now we need someone to integrate Scuttle into Moodle.

The next time you need help in any program (Word, DreamWeaver, Firefox, anything) press the F1 key.

I get a lot of calls from people that need help with an assortment of applications.  I’m a computer guy, so I am suppose to know how everything works.  The truth is I just have a really big F1 key.  I can’t count the number of times I have read the “solution” to someone right from the help file after I pressed F1.

If you aren’t running a program and press F1, you will get Windows help.

TSPY=2.75 and a little on your phone bill