File sharing utility

One thing that is a recurring issue with a multi-location course such as MAIPR is getting large files (video clips usually) from one place to another. A free and easy-to-use solution is a service called dropbox
Details here: https://www.dropbox.com/features
In short you get 2gb of space that you can divide into folders made available to whoever you chose. (and if you want a bit more space, reply to this post as if I invite you as an existing user we both get an additional 250mb of space free)

Beyond Powerpoint - Prezi

Having just returned from summerschool and seen how MAIPR students presented their dissertations on posters and wishing there was something closer to the spatial arrangement of ideas than powerpoint offers reminded me of a web-based programme that goes some way to addressing this. It's called Prezi and you can find it here - http://prezi.com/index/
Students/Teachers get a special (free) licence that gives you more storage space and the ability to build your presentation offline. Am hoping to use it for a presentation in a week's time so I'll report back on how it goes.

Mailing Lists for PhD Funding

Below are some links prepared after the 2011 Summerschool. Please feel free to suggest more

American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
- mailing list
https://listserv.illinois.edu/wa.cgi?SUBED1=astr-l&A=1
Scholarships, jobs, discussion - can get emails of postings as soon as they are made or a digest of weekly posts.
It's also worth registering at http://www.astr.org/ as they have a good Call for Papers database

Standing Conference of University Drama Departments (SCUDD)
- mailing list
As above but UK based
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=SCUDD&A=1

JISCMAIL - a broad range of subject-oriented mailing lists (including the SCUDD one above). The link below details the 73 Performing Arts groups (eg LiveArt, PARIP (which addresses Practice as Research) etc but you can use the search facilities to find others from different areas of enquiry:

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=SCUDD&A=1

Research Professional
Available in English and Dutch. This lists funding opportunities worldwide across all disciplines. Alongside grants you will also find scholarships and you can create alerts

http://www.researchprofessional.com/

Joining in

I responded to Tim's email invite by signing on, but I don't see any other posts....