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2007 April Archive at dougbelshaw.com

Monthly Archive for April, 2007

More photos of Ben

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Doug Belshaw
on 26 April 2007
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Ben, asleep and cute!

I’ve added a few more pictures of Benjamin D.J. Belshaw to his Flickr photoset. I don’t want to overload everyone with photos, but he is very cute. Continue reading ‘More photos of Ben’

iQuiz: learning games on an iPod

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Doug Belshaw
on 26 April 2007
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iQuiz logo

A post at Tony Vincent’s excellent Learning in Hand blog has informed me of a new ‘game’ for Apple iPods entitled iQuiz. This $0.99 (£0.75) game allows you to view and play quizzes on a 5th generation iPod (known as ‘iPod Video’). Fortunately I have one of these and was able to test it. My verdict? It rocks: really professionally made, very intuitive and could be great to use with students!

iQuiz

There’s immense possibilities for this. I’ve recently added a whole host of iPod-formatted video and audio files to a password-protected page on my website for students. As I will be able to create games for free at iQuizMaker.com (currently Mac-only, but with a Windows version forthcoming) this opens up even more opportunities…

Picture of iQuiz on iPod Picture of iQuiz on iPod (click to enlarge)

More at the Apple Learning Interchange

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

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Doug Belshaw
on 22 April 2007
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Running - longest route (click to enlarge)

…is the name of a great Daft Punk track, but also my aim in getting fit for this 10km (6.4 mile) ‘dash’ that I’ve signed up for in June. Today I went for a run and, to my surprise, went further than I had anticipated going. According to Google Earth, I went 5.01 miles! Now to many people, I’m sure, that’s nothing, but for me on a Sunday afternoon at my current level of fitness, that’s pretty good.

Just imagine how far I’ll be able to go when I finally get the Nike+ system up-and-running… Continue reading ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’