Science in Adelaide

Things are heating up in Adelaide... not only is there the AIP congress happening but numerous events... i went to see Dr Karl "Science is Golden" on Tuesday night and there is another RI event at the Governer Hindmarsh "Physics to blow your mind next Thursday.
What is the RI? It is the Royal Institute... and we have the first branch outside of Great Britian here is Adelaide... Royal Institute Australia which is dedicated to the advancement of science communication.

Web 2.0 Slideshow

There is a slideshow that you can embed into blogs or myspace or wherever you fancy... it is called slide. Sure this is a sad attempt because i am too busy to upload stuff... however you get the drift.

Share any kind of document

I have been looking at ways you can store or archive documents on the web, and I have already blogged about Googledocs and Slideshare. Well Scribd (not pronounced scribed, kind of rhymes with squib with an "d" on the end.) is a way of saving a trillion documents to the web... free. You can make them public or private or let only selected people view them. What kind of documents? Well there are oodles... and good to see they are supporting openoffice.
Documents are saved as "ipaper" and so people who view your files don't need to have the program that you wrote the document in (eg the latest version of word). By becoming a member (dead easy sign up) Scribd is an online community that screens for objectional content or any spam.
The documents you can turn into ipaper are ...

• Adobe PDF (.pdf)
• Adobe PostScript (.ps)
• Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps, .pptx)
• Microsoft Excel (.xls, xlsx)
• OpenOffice Text Document (.odt, .sxw)
• OpenOffice Presentation Document (.odp, .sxi)
• OpenOffice Spreadsheet (.ods, .sxc)
• All OpenDocument formats
• Plain text (.txt)
• Rich text format (.rtf)

This is perfect for students to showcase their work, linking their ipaper documents with blog, eportfolio or webpage.
Watch this youtube for some fast info or this youtube for a more detailed look.