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If you are interested in attending one of our workshops on New Media, Moodle or Wikis & Blogs, and you want to visit  either Athens or Ghent at the same time, then quickly fill in our preregistration form. With the support of your National Agency, you can have it all, for free! Free, as in: you would not have to pay for your plane ticket, accommodation, meals, course fee… The deadline for these workshops is January 16 -make sure you make it on time!

If you are looking for a thrilling learning experience in the wonderful city of Bruges, then preregister now for our seminar on New Media & Web 2.0. Thanks to the support of the Grundtvig programme, you can attend this workshop for free! For more information, please look at the pdf below!

The Viewbix site reads, “It’s no secret that tons of people are watching videos online. But how do you get users to do *more* than just watch your videos? And, how do you do it for FREE?” If it’s free, then we’re always interested of course. Making your YouTube video interactive so that it also contains a Twitter feed, or an RSS feed, for instance, is quite simple, really:

1. First select any YouTube video.
2. Add photos, pricing, descriptions, landing pages.
3. Share your new interactive video on Facebook, Twitter or your own website.

Here’s an example of one of our videos:


If you like this, then why not try it yourself?

Up to this very moment I have always used Overstream to create YouTube subtitles, but today I have discovered a new service, Captiontube, which seems even better than overstream in quite a few ways…
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And here are the pictures from our New Media & Web 2.0 seminar that we organised in Ghent in July 2011:

Below you can find the memolane for our New Media & Web 2.0 seminar which we organised in Ghent in July 2011:

Memolane is an web application that turns all of your tweets, facebook posts, picasa pictures, youtube videos etc. into a timeline that you can easily search. Alongside the currently supported services such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Last.fm, Foursquare, Instagram, Tripit, YouTube, myspace, vimeo and wordpress, you can also add RSS-feeds.

What is Memolane?

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Our course on New Media & Web 2.0 Applications started today – we’re very happy to welcome 15 people from 5 different European countries!

In the afternoon we’re going to the archaeological museum. Until that time, we’re having great fun with the different options offered by Moodle’s Groups and Groupings.

Only a couple of weeks before we’re starting our course on New Media and Web 2.0 applications, the people at WordPress.org have released Gershwin – the latest version of their tremendously popular WordPress. Version 3.2 not only brings us the completely new default theme Twenty Eleven,  it also brings us peace of mind.

The editor has a new Zen mode, where in full-screen mode all the buttons, bells and whistles disappear from the screen (until you move the mouse cursor to the top of the screen again, that’s when the most commonly used functions are accessible again). Like… this:

So tell us…seriously…what could be less distracting than a completely empty page, eh? (Okay, it may also be a bit intimidating if you have writer’s block, but let’s not go there. )

What’s new? Well…it’s a bit faster, again, support for PHP4, old versions of MySQL and Internet Explorer has (finally) been dropped. Without having done any benchmark tests, it feels like pages load somewhat faster, and the administration section seems to be snappier, too. It certainly looks cooler than in the previous version! The default Twenty Eleven theme gives you an idea of some of the possibilities of HTML5, and I’m sure that in the not-so-distant future we’ll see many more themes popping up everywhere that will make the most of HTML5.

And oh yeah, from now on they’ll start doing partial upgrades – no need to upload the entire installation anymore, every time there’s an upgrade. While we at LLIT don’t really have anything to complain about with our current provider, people working elsewhere might not be as lucky as us. (An example, you ask? Well… FTP’ing the contents of an archive as small as that of WordPress from the comfort of your home to the servers there can easily take 4 hours to complete. Obviously the auto-update function doesn’t work, for “security reasons”.)

So far, this upgrade has been a good one – no broken plugins, etc, and everything seems to work just a bit better. Again. I can’t wait to see what they’ve got planned for 3.3…