Video Conferencing

Recently did a webair which involved me using some great sites and apps. Eventbrite is great for organising your webair or any event. It is like your own conference secretary. You can arrange free or pay events very easily and it will keep your particpants informed of where, when how.

There are a number of video conference providers. A good free one but only allows 5 particpants at a time is WebEx . This allows you to give a presentation, have messages sent to you while presenting which is useful for video conferencing and allow you to share a whiteboard. GotoMeeting is another one but is only free for 30 days and then yiu can either pay monthly or annually and its rates are nased on thet  number of participants. If anyone knows of a tool that is either free or low cost I would be interested to hear from you! Goto Meeting has the above but also you can speak with your participants in realtime. A very relaible and easy to use tool which is important for successful video conferencing.

In running a webair it is difficult to predict if people who said they would join you will join you! I found Facebook useful for inviting people who are listed online who might be interested. Using facebooks messenger you can copy and paste your live feed to them!

My Keynote Issue

Last week I said that I had a problem with Keynote 2.07 and that the iCloud was not working. After a very nice chap from apple tried to help me. We actually restored the ipad and re-installed the app . None of these worked. The apple guy put the request up to a troubleshooting so I had to change my password for that! All in all it took a long time a got nowhere in the end.

Bearing in mind that I wanted access to this in readiness for BETT this year I decided to take the dramatic action of deleting all my presentations. Well, this did the trick. Of course, I had backed up the presentations I wanted to keep! This has now made everything work fine and so I solved the problem myself. Yippee!!

I am not sure what caused the problem in the first place but suspect a faulty file somewhere but the clean sweep is the way to resolve iCloud issues!

SketchPartyTV – iPad app

SketchPartyTV £2.99 is a great app if you also have an AppleTV . Pictionary on the ipad. Teams compete against each other to draw and get there image recognised against a list lf words. You can create your own lists so it would be useful as an educational app. Great!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all our followers. i hope 2014 will be an exciting time for us all.

Autism brains are overly connected, studies find — SFARI.org – Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative

Autism brains are overly connected, studies find — SFARI.org – Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative.

Same thing for Autism. By co-incidence this appeared in a research journal today!

The Advantages of AD(H)D

Makes sense that ADHD should be more FDAD – Focus Attention Deficit!! Read on!

This looks interesting!

http://www.dislecksiathemovie.com/

Keynote issue

Discovered that after updating Keynote that I no longer can access my presentations on iCloud. Spent a happy hour discussing this with Apple technical support which requires me to log a call with them tomorrow. Frustrating that this has happened. Tried everything like re-installing the app, using iCloud.com to delete some presentations. One I know has broken so have uninstalled it! Still no result. So they have put my iPad into troubleshooting mode. I am not impressed with iOS7 at the moment!!! If  anyone else is having this problem let me know. Also, I will inform you all how this gets resolved. Maybe tomorrow!!

OpenLibrary.org

eBooks can be borrowed from over 1,000,000 books online for free at 

https://openlibrary.org

 

Site Stats give you the picture

I monitor daily this blog as its useful to understand the data flow and notice trends. Looking at the site stats over the past weeks . There are series of peaks that just decrease. Keeping you readers interest is about “feeding” your blog with new content. Exponentially, the more you share , the more the traffic!