Sunday 30 September 2012

I eat humble pie

Original links to elearning tools page.

iGoogle is dying - I have spouted on about certain tools for a few years now and iGoogle has long been a favorite of mine. One web page that enables links to be stored and post-its to be formed. I posted my use of this to fellow students a while back and shared my homepage the advantages were clear to me as demonstrated to the right. Sadly though overnight the links app stopped working and although Google will not be shutting down the tool till next year it is already rendered useless because

iGoogle page rendered useless
developers have withdrawn and taken there apps with them this active page linking to a range of useful tools has been rendered to nothing more than a useless untidy web page. This is a draw back with working in the cloud you will always be reliant of the tools being available. and when this is not the case you are left in the dark. Good old Google - never mind I guess I will have to fall back to Symbaloo but it does make you think - whats next?

E856 - Ends



Another Module comes to an end, its been a hard slog this year, too much happening at work to really get my teeth into the project as i wanted too. I still consider it a success but I had more ambitious ideas - still time will tell.

It's been a strange year one way or another a lot has happened this year many family successes and as I write A'level results bring good news to one young man who now starts off on his Higher Ed journey. Whilst mine is coming an end, this completes my Masters and will probably be the last formal qualification I push myself towards (Well that's what I said last time).

Time for a treat I think and welcome a new gadget, enter the Nexus 7 with a priority to start reading non technical stuff for a while.