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Windows Live Mail search

13/2/2012

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One of the frustrations of using Windows Live Mail is there no obvious way of searching for emails via the from, to or subject line. That's until you hit Cntrl shift F and voila the relevant search pops up. Quite why its not obviously available from the toolbars I don't know!

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Somantics - fascinating Autism research project

8/2/2012

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During my last "job" I had the pleasure of working with a lady called Wendy Keay Bright from the then University Wales Institure in Cardiff which is now called the Cardiff Metrolpitan University.

Wendy has a very cool career path starting off with the SuperTed cartoon series. We worked on taking a research based project to a commercial release that could help the project self fund. ReacTickles uses technology with kids with Autism to help them explore self expression, communication, and motor control amongst other things.

Here's a video I made about ReacTickles back in the day that gives you the general idea...
After a recent Twitter catch up Wendy told me about a new project on the go called Somantics which uses the iPad as the input device. Fascinating stuff and am hoping to attend a development day later on this year to get up to speed.

If you are interested in the use of educational technology you should definately take a look at the following links....

You can read more about ReacTickles here...
You can read more about Somantics here...
You can read more about Wendy here...
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I'm a bad man

8/2/2012

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Well it's been far too long!  Way too long - very poor blog keeping - a mortal sin in the world of geeky bloggy things. Sorry!

There I was tootling along with Made Me Look when the kind people from www.educationcity.com came along and offered me a nice contract which I am currently in the middle of. It's been a busy 4 or 5 months and we have gradually been getting some great work done including winning a prestigious BETT award and today we found out we are shortlisted for 2 Education Resources Awards. A very nice crowd of people with customer service at the heart of their company.
Still lots to do but things are going well.

If you dont know EducationCity.com it's a online learning service for Primary aged children which can be accessed at school or at home. With over 15,500 schools subscribing it's proving a huge success right around the world. You can learn more about it here.

Saying all of that I am still available for the shorter term projects and consultative services and have a couple of exciting projects coming up.

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