Packing, then off to bed. Off to National Christian Football Festival in Manchester tomorrow. Hannah & Ben not coming for obvious reasons!
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DVD Flick - burn any video file to DVD!

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Doug Belshaw
on 31 January 2007
in blog
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Lifehacker has a great guide to using a program called DVD Flick. This free, open-source, Windows-only program allows even novice users to burn videos in a range of formats (DivX, MPG, etc.) to playable DVD.

DVD Flick

This is a great solution for a variety of situations. For example, some schools are limited to a projector per department, so a teacher would be able to use DVD Flick to write a DVD of some downloaded/shared video file and show it via an inexpensive DVD player hooked up to an existing TV.

I do think that digital video is the way forward, but we need tools such as this for interim stop-gap times when we’ve got no other choice because the hardware just isn’t there. This is certainly one to spread the word about!

Ed.D. Thesis Proposal, v2

Published
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Doug Belshaw
on 28 January 2007
in Everything Else
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Google Docs

After my last attempt wasn’t specific or focused enough, I’ve completely re-written it. If you’re interested, have a look here:

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ajdmqgcb7rbb_13g2bx4s&re

:-)

Open Word documents through Google Docs in GMail

Published
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Doug Belshaw
on 28 January 2007
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You’ve got to love Google. They’ve quietly introduced the feature to open Word documents sent to your GMail account in Google Docs. I think all school students should have Google Accounts nowadays - it would save schools a whole lot of money and the way everything is integrated could lead to some great results! (via Lifehacker)