Why 'Jing' is so useful?

Here I am fighting my way through an EMA and up pops an email, one of my students is struggling to compress his report to the size required by the OU eTMA system. I know the problem he needs to compress his pictures. But I am working on my assignment and want to get on with it.

• Do I ring him and try to explain over the phone?
• Do I try and pop it in an email?
• No I am going to 'Jing' him. (Stop laughing)

What surely if time is tight I hear you say, its going to take longer to create a video to explain how to do it. Well this is where you are wrong, within 5 minutes the email returned contains a link to the following online video, which quickly explains how to overcome his problem.
Whats more this may help me on my assignment so time well spent I think.

Activity 3d -The Future of Technology - Part 2

OK I said I would be back, I thought I would look at this from a business perspective rather than educational it all helps to give a bigger picture.

Accenture Technology Vision 2011 - The Technology Waves That Are Reshaping the Business Landscape.

The Accenture Technology Vision takes stock of the evolving trends in IT and how Accenture thinks they will impact business and society as a whole.The Vision helps Accenture and their clients understand the opportunities—and challenges—that lie ahead.

The Accenture Technology Vision 2011,research team developed some 400 hypotheses based on input from scientists, architects and engineers—from inside and outside of Accenture. Fifty of these were ultimately found to be defensible, and were consolidated into eight trends:

• Data takes its rightful place as a platform.
• Analytics is driving a discontinuous evolution from business intelligence.
• Cloud computing will create more value higher up the stack.
• Architecture will shift from server-centric to service-centric.
• IT security will respond rapidly, progressively—and in proportion.
• Data privacy will adopt a risk-based approach.
• Social platforms will emerge as a new source of business intelligence.
• User experience is what matters.

Its an interesting read but I have included a link to the executive summary for speed if you want to read the full report then this link will take you there.

The Links
Summary
http://www.accenture.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/PDF/Tech_Vision_11_2_page.pdf
Full Report
http://www.accenture.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/PDF/TechVision2011_Report_v6_1901.pdf