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Setting up a VPN connection for your iPad

If you need to connect to the NMMU network, set up the VPN connection as follows:


Posted to MiPad - me and my iPad-2 by Thomas Hilmer on 14 April 2012 20:00:34 | with 0 comments


Today's Meet and Tagxedo

Meet online, have question and answer sessions, get input from your class as you go along. There are many possible applications of these simple to use tools.


Posted to Adventures of a Blended Learning Techie by Shaun Meyer on 02 April 2012 20:28:14 | with 0 comments


SharePoint 2010: Collaborate, network, teach.

You probably already know that we already have a pretty amazing collaboration tool at the NMMU. Blogs, forums, wikis, shared documents, online calendars to name some of the functionality. SharePoint 2010 is indeed very powerful. Both our student and staff portals as well as their mobile versions run on custom developed SharePoint 2010 sites.


Posted to Adventures of a Blended Learning Techie by Shaun Meyer on 24 March 2012 05:52:06 | with 0 comments


I am sure you all know how difficult it is to keep track of all the information you find on your specific topic out there. We all have different ways of storing the links to our favourite bits of information. One could add them to one's Favourites but if your machine had to crash, boom, all gone. Maybe even more importantly; how can I group my information and share it in a nice looking format with my colleagues or students?  


Posted to Adventures of a Blended Learning Techie by Shaun Meyer on 23 March 2012 11:52:26 | with 0 comments


Using 3G on your iPad

I was going to take my iPad on a trip to the Kruger Park as most of the camps have 3G coverage. At home and at work I use wi-fi as it’s far cheaper, so I hadn’t played around with the 3G features yet.

I whipped out the SIM card from my modem and tried to insert it into the iPad. EPIC FAILURE, it didn’t fit, the iPad requires the new, smaller micro-SIM card format. What now?


Posted to MiPad - me and my iPad-2 by Thomas Hilmer on 21 March 2012 18:41:18 | with 0 comments


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