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Flash animation for discovering the various ways of displaying the same information about risk and how much difference it makes to perceptions. Graphics and numerical data from trials in the media.

Documents (e.g. pdfs, doc files etc.) can be uploaded to Issuu and it creates a flash viewer with the 'turning the page' effect of a real document. Can then be embedded into webpages etc.

QMSU have started using this for CUB magazine and their handbook

Adobe Connect web meeting app - available for free for up to three participants (including host - only one who needs to sign up). Participants simply go to the host's meeting room url (which is easy to remember) and can use webcams/audio, share screen/windows, type messages and meeting notes, use the whiteboard, exchange files.

Looks very good - liked the way it went straight to gmail to find contacts - lets try it more widely.

We recommended this to the folks running a Clinical Dermatology course for holding their virtual tutorials and it seemed to work pretty well. It does require quite an up to date version of the Flash player which can be a problem...i.e. anyone attempting to use a student service machine or some staff with 'managed' computers won't be able to use it. I believe Electronic Engineering have forked out for the "pro" version...or at least they have in the past. As usual with Adobe stuff,,,it looks slick! DimDim is another web-conferencing thingy that seems to get a lot of press...haven't used it myself. Elluminate is another one that I've seen used at several meetings I've been to recently.