Michael Rees
Michael Rees
Mijare Consulting
I am an IT academic interested in Web 2.0 application development and use, social media tools for organisations and individuals, virtualisation and cloud computing applications.
iPad Not the Only Mobile Learning Device
The stream of articles and blog posts around the general theme of 'iPad transforms education' seems endless. Most include a list of tasks that...
First SnapSendSolve Experiment a Success
On 11 August I tweeted about a great new iPhone app called SnapSendSolve (http://go.mrees.com/snapsend) that allows you to quickly and easily send incident reports...
iPad is Definitely a Consumption Machine
Phil Long (@RadHertz) and I are definitely in agreement on what the iPad is and what it is not. Phil eaned my sympathy when...
Think Carefully about Self-hosted WordPress Blogs and Sites
This post has been gestating for months fuelled by the litany of frustrated tweets and posts from members of my social circles who administer...
Simple Mining of Links from Twitter Friends
Yes you can search Twitter for the latest tweets from one of your friends to find that elusive link. At present that means a...
The Authentic Perspective of Social Media in Academic Discourse
I have to agree wholeheartedly with observations put forward by Andy Coverdale in his post about the current accepted rational approach adopted when reviewing...
Glass Roofs Kill iPad as Ereader
@petahopkins shared a post in Google Reader describing experiences by @flexnib (Constance Wiebrands) of using the iPad as an ereader. The list of positives...
A Major Step Closer to a Paperless Office
Two thirds through a teaching semester MPOW decided it was a convenient time to refurbish our whole floor of offices and ask us to...
Latest Numbers on Students and Ebooks
Back in October 2009 I posted some simple stats I had collected about how students support the use of ebooks. When marking my recent...
Liking Windows Live Sync Beta, Mostly
Since Live Mesh, more formally known as the Mesh Operating Environment, launched I have been a dedicated user. With the free 5 GB of...
Foursquare Rewards Come to a Business Near Me
I was beginning to think that Foursquare was starting to plateau with the upcoming threats from Facebook and Google moving into their geosocial space....
Current iPad Score Stands at 80%
You have to admit to a rising excitement as you unbox your first iPad. As a devotee of netbooks over the last 18 months...
Sharing the same Book between Different Kindles
A colleague asked me if multiple Kindles could share the same booked purchased from the Kindle store. Rather than email a reply I made...
Days of Academic Journals Drawing to a Close, Perhaps
Tony Bates in his post 'Do we need academic journals any more?' when talking about the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology puts the...
Open Scholars Find Each Other Via Online Presence
Showing how valuable nurturing an online presence can be I received a tweet reply from George Veletsianos (@veletsianos) suggesting our academic interests intersect after...
A Decent Twitter Search At Last from Google?
Via a tweet from the ever vigilant Kay (@idealaw) we find a link in the PC World article by Jared Newman to the new...
QR Codes Come for Free with goo.gl URL Shortener
Via a @timoreilly tweet comes a buzz from Matt Cutts which is shown here for the buzz challenged: So when you use the goo.gl...
Open Student Blogs as a Significant Pedagogical Shift
Alerted by a tweet from Kathryn I read the post by Joshua Kim giving examples of ideas he believes to be true at the...
Is It Worth Syndicating Your Blog?
This blog serves my purpose in being a repository of my comments and ideas about information technology and social media concepts that interest me....
A Podcast Channel on the Cheap
For several years I have used Delicious a lot for social bookmarks, usually every day. For a long time I used Delicious as my...