Sunday, September 19, 2010

Monkeys on a Picnik...

Survey Monkey is really worth a look...it's so easy to produce a professional looking survey...
Picnik (now 'Creative Kit' in Google+) is really good, too...I played around for a while and uploaded my finished product to Picasa...
Unfortunately I didn't really like the 'educational video' site Sclipo because

1) the sound was bad
2) the streaming was slow
3) the 'educational' content was mostly spruiking
4) nobody watches it (most of these videos have a total of 0 views)

I think Youtube does this sort of thing much better...and most educational institutions now have channels. If I were a prospective (or international) student that's where I'd be going to have a look at the campus, the city, the facilities or vox pops of other students talking about their courses...which is exactly what they're putting on the RMIT University channel. Individual departments are also creating channels so they can post student work (see the RMIT Animation and Interactive Media channel). It'd be good if the library could set up a channel too...