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Free Web Space!

posted ‎‎Dec 5, 2008 2:47 AM‎‎ by Andy Channelle

If you're struggling to find space to store documents, photos, music files or any other kind of digital content, Microsoft's Live service has just launched the SkyDrive product. This will give you 25GB of space for nothing and there are some decent sharing options there too.

http://skydrive.live.com/

You'll need to use a Windows Live/MSN/Hotmail username to get in, but you might have one of these as part of your UWE email account anyway. It's definitely worth a look...

Site set up

posted ‎‎Mar 18, 2008 1:58 PM‎‎ by Andy Channelle

In the first year of teaching, I set up a blog to pass on links and other bits of information to students (this, in turn, followed experiments with blogging seminars and workshops for my MA) which turned out to be moderately successful in that most of the students visited a few times in order to either catch up on missed workshops or find a link I'd mentioned in my presentation.
The second year – my first year full time – I expanded this effort to include a Facebook group for the two main things I was teaching on, and a bespoke website featuring static pages, presentations and a blog. Again this proved to be as useful to those attending classes as those who missed them.
This year I've grown again, and will be attempting to cover all of my teaching with online components. This has been facilitated somewhat by my experience of working with large data structures at Spike Island and in the availability of the Sites package from Google, which allows me to integrate so much stuff into one space. So here I will be shovelling videos for workshops, documents for students, presentations, writing and blog posts. I just hope I'm able to maintain the pace at which I've started.

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