So I was made up this morning to find this 4-step tutorial describing the process for comparing two separate documents in Word. I can see me using this a lot!

Sheffield from new folder on Vimeo.

Another great Institutional Web Management Workshop last week in Sheffield. Sponsored by Statistics into Decisions, I took the chance to try out the Canon 7D and shot a series of interviews:

• Wordpress beyond blogging, Joss Winn
• Getting awesome results from data visualisation, Rich Kirk
• My superpower is content creation. What’s yours?, Relly Annett-Baker

Via Wired Campus – Students beg for tuition money online. US only, although in this screenshot there’s a prominent slot for a Google Ads placed banner advert for Kingston University.

Brown University has gone Google

The Open University are documenting their involvement with iTunesU online at http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/itunesu/.

Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana is offering scholarships to students publishing YouTube videos promoting the College. An interesting idea, although, as Wired Campus point out, awarding the prizes to the videos with the most views is flawed.

(In other news, if you’re trying to embed a YouTube video and can’t find the embed html on the YouTube page, try uninstalling the Firefox addon Easy YouTube Video Downloader which for some reason hides the embed options….)

I try to regularly highlight sources of creative commons images on this blog, but it’s also important to understand copyright from the view of photographic stock agencies. One of them (their terms of use seems to prevent me from using their trademarked name or from reproducing a screenshot of their website) has recently launched stockphotorights.com, with answers to a lot of basic, but often misunderstood, issues.

Typically, on reading the comments to the article I realised that everyone seems to already have various methods and tools for doing this. Thanks for letting me know! I’ve now installed the Pearl Crescent Page Saver for Firefox and life has got that little bit easier..

Election fever is well and truly over and I, for one, welcome our new con-dem overlords. No more physical attendance at conferences for me, so today I settled down to  remotely attending the Eduserv Symposium on the Mobile University.

The remote experience was better than I expected. The catering was certainly better with proper milk in my tea rather than uht and I didn’t miss the chicken satay or onion bhajis for dinner. The quality of the audio and video in the stream was very high (provided by Switch New Media I think). I could also pick and choose the sessions I wanted to watch, with Christine Skelton’s talk on ‘The role of a university computing service in an increasingly mobile world’ my favourite.

Sitting at my office desk though, it was difficult to pay attention to sessions with the constant physical and email interruptions. Being able to pause and pick up the stream would have been a big help. There’s an argument for staying at home to watch a conference like this, getting the advantage of the break from work and inspirational sessions whilst also saving the time and money of normal conference attendance.

Not just photos either. There’s a set of historical documents, another includes seals and artifacts.