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OU web developer's coffee morning - OU player
Start: 2011-12-15 10:00 Timezone: Europe/London Start: 2011-12-15 10:00 Timezone: Europe/London LocationThe Open University Library / DigilabMK7 6AAUnited Kingdom52° 1' 29.6904" N, 0° 42' 35.0892" W...
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oEmbed at Dev8D 2012
Start: 2012-02-14 09:30 End: 2012-02-16 17:00 Timezone: Europe/London Start: 2012-02-14 09:30 End: 2012-02-16 17:00 Timezone: Europe/London LocationUniversity of London Students UnionWC1E 7HYUnited...
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Nomensa's open source Accessible Media Player - first look
I was tipped off about Nomensa's player, newly open sourced (thanks Chetz), and ever curious, I thought I'd take a look.I came across version 1 of the player last year, and I must say at the time I was...
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'Learn About' Fair 2012 - Learn about, discuss and discover
Start: 2012-02-29 11:00 Timezone: Europe/London Start: 2012-02-29 11:00 Timezone: Europe/London LocationJennie Lee BuildingMK7 6AAUnited Kingdom52° 1' 29.6904" N, 0° 42' 35.0892" W See map: Google...
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Obama-China inundation on Google+ is an opportunity not a threat
I've come across a BBC article about Chinese internet users inundating Barack Obama's Google Plus page. Here is Obama's Google+ page. This bit of news gives me a warm feeling. Apparently "many simply...
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OU Annotate
I was in a meeting today of The Open University's accessibility practitioner's group. Louise Olney, a project manager in Learning and Teaching Solutions kindly came to talk to us about OU Annotate, and...
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The Vibrant Colours of Islamic Art and Architecture
Start: 2012-04-12 09:00 End: 2012-04-30 17:00 Timezone: Europe/London Start: 2012-04-12 09:00 End: 2012-04-30 17:00 Timezone: Europe/London LocationOU LibraryThe Open University Walton HallMK7...
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Secrets of our Living Planet, on OpenLearn and iSpot
Secrets of our Living Planet is a nature programme presented by Chris Packham which airs on BBC2 on Sunday evenings. It delves into fascinating and surprising connections between species – the clip I...
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OU Disability conference 2012
Start: 2012-11-13 End: 2012-11-14 Timezone: Europe/London Start: 2012-11-13 End: 2012-11-14 Timezone: Europe/London LocationKents Hill Park Training and Conference CentreTimbold DriveMK7 6BZUnited...
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BSA National Conference 2012
Start: 2012-08-31 End: 2012-09-02 Timezone: Europe/London Start: 2012-08-31 End: 2012-09-02 Timezone: Europe/London LocationUniversity of LincolnLN6 7TSUnited Kingdom53° 13' 43.7988" N, 0° 32' 57.2532"...
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Accessibility London Mini-Conference 2012
Start: 2012-09-19 10:00 End: 2012-09-19 16:00 Timezone: Europe/London Start: 2012-09-19 10:00 End: 2012-09-19 16:00 Timezone: Europe/London LocationCity University LondonSt John StreetEC1V 0HBUnited...
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OU Media Player rebooted
Its been a long time since I've blogged about the OU Media Player project. So what has been going on? I thought I'd take a brief look back, then look forward...Last spring and summer we developed an...
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Extending Piwik for Track OER
A software component that we had in mind for the Track OER project from early on is Piwik. Piwik is an open-source Web analytics tool, that offers similar features to Google Analytics, in terms of...
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Thoughts on the a11yLDN 2012 mini-conference
Recently I attended the Accessibility London Mini-Conference.It was an interesting day, with a new group of passionate people, a new venue for me. Some thoughts that I took away from it:The Game...
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My accessibility top 10 do's and don'ts
Quoting from a recent blog post by Marco Zehe,There are those days when you watch a discussion unfold on Twitter, and a point is reached where a statement is made that leaves you more or less...
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oEmbed isn't dead – here's OU Embed!
Despite appearances, I argue that oEmbed is alive and kicking.Brian Mearns has put together a document describing some concerns around the oEmbed standard, partly around security. It's generally very...
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Track OER and CaPRéT, one year on
Its just over a year ago (19 October 2012), that the JISC/HEFCE-funded Track OER rapid innovation project finished. You can view the grand finale videos on the project blog.We've recently had some...
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Open source software and CLAs
When we released CloudEngine as free/open source software, we followed what is fairly standard practice in some parts of the open source Community. We added a contributor license agreement (CLA)– some...
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OERs about accessibility
In response to a recent webinar on Accessibility & OER, I thought I'd put together a list of some OER-like resources that I know of about accessibility. Please feel free to tell me about resources...
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OU Media Player June 2014 release
I'm happy to be reporting on a new release of the OU Media Player that happened in mid-June. This release fixed a number of bugs, including one relating to Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8, and...
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iSpot February 2015
Greetings iSpotters! (This is a similar post on our team blog.)I'm happy to say that this morning we made a number of significant bug fixes live on the iSpot web site.Here's a roundup of what's...
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e-Access'15 conference
MorningFirst, a mention for #AXSchat– an online conversation that happens each Tuesday 20-21:00 UTC/GMT on Twitter– on all things accessibility and inclusion-related in business on the web and beyond....
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e-Access'15 conference part 2
Continued from the previous post…In the second part of the plenary Kathleen Egan, Programmes Manager at Age UK London, presented the valuable work done by the charity on digital inclusion. She...
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Introducing ... Open Media Player
I'm very happy to announce that we have released Open Media Player (formerly called OU Media Player), as a free/open source project. It has been our intention for a while to make the code open source,...
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Open Media Player – Jisc Accessible by Design challenge
Today we entered our idea in Jisc’s Accessible by Design competition. I’ve got some innovations I’d like us to pursue, and Jisc’s competition seems like a great vehicle.We’re looking at two features....
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