GOOGLE has promised to bring together thousands of business owners for the second leg of the Get Nigerian Businesses Online (GNB0) 2012 Web Fair, taking place at the City Hall, Catholic Mission Street, in Onikan, Lagos on April 26 and 27, 2012. Intending participants should register at http://www.gnbo.com.ng/event2012
Create Nice Quizzes Using "Learn Click"
“Learn Click is a nice tool for quickly creating simple online quizzes. The format for the quizzes is fill-in-the-blank with a couple of extras that you can't add to offline quizzes. When you format your quizzes in Learn Click you have the option to add a drop-down menu from which students can select words to use in the quiz. Another nice option is the ability to add a "hint" pop-up for students to access. As the designer of the quiz you can specify what the hint is.” This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.
FUMSI Article: An app for every occasion
I invite you to read this beautiful write-up titled FUMSI Article: An app for every occasion.
People are fantastic at problem solving on the fly. I recently heard about a
group of print engineers who do exactly that using their mobile phones.
The engineers mend printing machines on organisational premises and work
alone. If they come across a problem that they cannot fix with the aid of a
manual, they need access to a colleague in the know. Pre-mobile this would mean
leaving the job and heading back to the office, delaying the completion of the
job. Nowadays they simply take a photo and email it out to colleagues for a
quick answer.
It would take minimal effort to build a store of photos and answers to act as
a central resource and learning tool for new engineers. It goes without saying
that it would be searchable via a mobile site or app.
For BlackBerry users, BBM is a quick, easy and free way to set up a
community. While the information exchanged cannot be captured centrally, it does
offer a very effective way to connect people to people, as thousands of
teenagers will confirm.
Send FREE SMS from Gmail in Nigeria
Just last week, during gNigeria annual workshop, Google announced this new service. What you need in order to send a FREE SMS to any MTN, Starcomms, GLO and Visafone is a FREE Gmail account .
Get started today .... Start sending FREE SMS now to your friends from your computer.
By the way there are a lot of resources available to you if you missed the summit gNigeria.
Google Adds Play to the List of Her Products
On March 6, 2012, Google announced the merger of Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore into Google Play. The idea is to for you to have good time.From the Official Google Blog "Entertainment is supposed to be fun. But in reality, getting everything to work can be the exact opposite—moving files between your computers, endless syncing across your devices, and wires…lots of wires. Today we’re eliminating all that hassle with Google Play, a digital entertainment destination where you can find, enjoy and share your favorite music, movies, books and apps on the web and on your Android phone or tablet. Google Play is entirely cloud-based so all your music, movies, books and apps are stored online, always available to you, and you never have to worry about losing them or moving them again."
"With Google Play you can:
- Store up to 20,000 songs for free and buy millions of new tracks
- Download more than 450,000 Android apps and games
- Browse the world’s largest selection of eBooks
- Rent thousands of your favorite movies, including new releases and HD titles"
Free, Open Source Software (FOSS) African Conference Kicks Off in Abuja on March 19, 2012
According to the news source (Vanguard on March 3, 2012), Mr. Dele Ajisomo, the President, Open Source Foundation for Nigeria (OSFON), is quoted as saying that the conference will hold in Abuja from March 19 to March 23, 2012. About 1,000 participants are expected from Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and United States. The theme for this year is “Open Source Solutions for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals.’’ Free internet services will be provided throughout the period of the conference. (Computerweekly 2012 and Vanguard 2012)
NEWS STAND: The New Satelite and Education in Nigeria
ICT park to save Nigeria $5billion (The Nation)"Managing Director of the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT), Tiamasaniyu Ahmed-Rufai, has advocated the use of the recently launched satellite, NigComSat-1R to achieve the ‘Electronic Park’ (e-Park) project and other Information and Communications Technology (ICT) initiatives of the Federal Government..." Read further at http://goo.gl/GXjJN
‘Nigeria ready for satellite-enabled e-education’ (Vanguard) February 22, 2012
"Considering that Satellite communication has always been a major backbone to the development of most advanced societies, Managing Director, Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited Engr. Ahmed-Rufai, has said that his Nigcomsat 1R project was what Nigeria needed to achieve universal access, ICT development, backbone for social, political and economic re-engineering." Read further at http://goo.gl/lTVHI
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)