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...only to take the pain out of recording educational broadcasts you understand.
The Neuros OSD connects to your TV or home theatre system and allows you to archive all of your DVD and video content.
Plug the Neuros OSD into your TV, connect your DVD Player or VCR, and hit play. Your movie will be safely and legally transferred into a digital library! It works with home movies too. Just plug your video camera into the OSD, push play, and your memories are digitized.
With the Neuros OSD, you can store hundreds of hours of video in one location (like an external hard drive), get rid of those bulky cases, put an end to DVD damage, and instantly access any of your videos with the push of a button on a remote. You can even transfer your video content to a portable device (video iPod, PSP, mobile phone, etc.) to watch on the go, or email your home movies to friends and family.
£160 from Maplin, £139 at Amazon, probably cheaper elsewhere.
http://www.neurostechnology.com/
Ah, the fabled supernatural powers of the librarian. As featured on today's Guardian front page UK news digest.
Read the full story here.
To continue the theme of the previous post, it might be worth having a look at a few of the sites offering freeware Java apps for mobiles.
I've only scratched the surface thus far (there are murkier things lying below if you scratch too far) but so far I've come across English dictionaries, phrase-books, calculators, etc.
Try GetJar for a start.
And, this just in...if you want to create your own Java books, TequilaCat's website looks promising. And it's OpenSource.
I suspect that, in general, librarians are no great lovers of mobile phones. Certainly they have their place but it ain't the library! And the notices that declare "Please switch off your mobile" actually mean "Would everyone else please switch off their mobiles".
But as Mr Dylan sagely put it:
People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
Firstly it was the Hairdressing Training resource that the good offices of JISC Collections have made freely available to FE & the invitation to London for the launch party of Hairdressing Training for Mobile Devices. The press release for the event can be found here; to access the resource from your mobile you apparently point your WAP-enabled phone at http://www.htmob.mobi/index.php. Ho hum.
And then it gets worse. That Damascene moment.
I discover that the Samsung phone (mp3 player / radio / mp4 player / wee computer) with the silly Java games can also be reborn as an Amazon Kindle. OK, so slight exaggeration.
[Cut to the chase]
BooksInMyPhone makes it possible for you to read books on your mobile/cell phone!
They format and package books so that you can read them on a java enabled phone. Most phones sold today are java enabled & the book reader program is integrated within each book downloaded.
Features of the BooksInMyPhone book reader program include:
- Adjustable font size settings. Make the letters bigger or smaller according to your personal preference.
- Night-vision mode. Makes it easy to read in a dark room.
- Chapter navigation. Navigate the book by chapter.
- Pause & Auto-resume function. Automatically pauses and resumes to accomodate incoming calls.
- Auto-bookmark. You never have to remember where you're up to in the book.
OK, so we're talking public domain / creative commons books here. As in classic texts. So?
Phones? Maybe. BooksInMyPhone? A resounding three cheers.
http://www.booksinmyphone.com/
Safeguarding children in a digital world: Developing an LSCB e-safety strategy is a BECTA publication that has been designed as a toolkit to support local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs) and local authority personnel develop an e-safety strategy.
It comprises suggested guidance including strategy contents; outlines personnel who should be involved; and aspects that should be covered. Case studies, activities and exemplar materials kindly provided by local authorities help to illustrate practical steps to take.
Safeguarding children in a digital world (163 page .pdf)
Source: ResourceShelf
I'm reading the first part of Timothy Neat's biography "Hamish Henderson - The Making of The Poet 1919-1953", whilst watching Wendy Alexander's press conference on BBC News 24. OK not exactly simultaneously... Try a Google search for Hamish Henderson & Wendy Alexander - Hamish 13,000, Wendy 113,000. Well, I can't address the obvious imbalance (IMHO) but here's an attempt to aggregate some of the better Hamish stuff out there.
Enough to get started anyway. Until you buy the book(s).
And the connection with the previous post? Shame on you. Try this...
OK, pardon the puny pun & put it down to this insidious cold, flu or whatever it is. Anyway the following puts minor afflictions into some perspective...
Mandela is a five-part radio series documenting the struggle against apartheid through rare sound recordings, the voice of Nelson Mandela himself, as well as those who fought with him, and against him.
- A recording of the 1964 trial that resulted in Mandela's life sentence
- A visit between Mandela and his family secretly recorded by a prison guard
- Marching songs of guerilla soldiers
- Government propaganda films
- Pirate radio broadcasts from the African National Congress
- Interviews with former ANC activists, National Party politicians, army generals, Robben Island prisoners, and ordinary witnesses to history
http://www.mandelahistory.org/
http://www.radiodiaries.org/
Some more opencourseware, this time from the UK:
U-Now is the University of Nottingham’s formal open courseware initiative.
In acting as a window onto the University of Nottingham’s activities, u-Now offers an opportunity for knowledge to be shared widely so as to increase learning opportunities for those who, for whatever reason, are unable to undertake formal qualifications and can contribute to the advancement of pedagogy across the academic community.
For FE there's some good political podcasts, videocasts of number skills for nurses, introductions to Mandarin, etc. Only 33 modules to date but worthy of your consideration.
http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/index.aspx
Well, freeborn perhaps, but 50-odd miles of motorway travelling each & every is enough for this humble non-teaching staffer.
Still, we're not selfish & realise that the needs of our academic colleagues are utterly different from those of us lesser mortals. Thus when I heard that some of my esteemed pedagogical chums were having difficulties in locating suitable accommodation for themselves & their charges in dodgy, foreign locations, my first thought was "Why do they have to fly there & risk muggings, hangovers & gastric complaints when a phone call or email would have allowed us to point them in the direction of Schmap & its wonderful city guides." Download the lot (500Mb, 500 cities) for free, saving money, stress & DVT. But no, spurned professionally again.
Anyway next time the wanderlust bites, remember this post. The city guides are rather good even if Inverness doesn't figure yet...and I nearly forgot, Boston & St. Petersburg do.
http://www.schmap.com
