TeachMeetGameOn March 29th The Brewery London

Well those Teachmeet giants are having another outing described by some as the best evening CPD you will ever have this adult show and tell of teacher practices in relatin to Tech is not to be missed.

The organisers of Games Based Learning 2010 http://www.gamebasedlearning2010.com/ have lent a room and free WiFi to hold a TeachMeet that is primarily focussed on use of games in education but in true teachMeet tradition is open to anybody who want to share their practices in using any kind of tech in education. You can do a 7 minute talk a 4 minute nano presentation or just lurk !! Find out more at http://teachmeet.pbworks.com/Teachmeet_Game_on_edition please note its free but you need to register here to gain access to the bulding at http://teachmeetgameon.eventbrite.com/
these are great events see my post from earlier Teachmeet in Scotland for a little flavour of what a Teachmeets about. http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/2008/09/in-company-of-giants-but-ever-so-modest.html



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ARM Powered LEGO/Nokia 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube Solver

Well this involves one of the finest mobile ever built (N95) IMHO , Lego NXT and loads of technics and of course a Rubiks cube.

Very clever and a bit of fun

 

ARM Powered LEGO/Nokia 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube Solver

If you do nothing else today follow this guy on twitter

Ok its not totally tech related but he is using twitter face book and google maps. Adam Wooly a resident of that gem of Suffolk Countryside Saxsted is doing a small bike trip of 10'000 miles . On  2nd of January 2010  he  left from London to cycle the 10,000 miles to Cape Town through 17 countries in around 7 months, all in aid of Malaria Consortium.

He is doing it as sponsored ride for the malaria consortium now first off all visit his website and donate some cash http://www.wheresadam.net secondlyfollow him on twitter as off this lunch time today he had only 242 followers I reckon between us we can give a boost and reach a thousand follow him on twitter @london_capetown so come on everybody follow his progress . 140 characters is a lot of encouragement !!

Web 2.0 in Schools Policy and Leadership by COSN

Great report from our friends at COSN http://www.cosn.org on web 2.0 in Schools in relation to policy and leadership released back in may but Ive just come across it report can be downloaded at
http://www.cosn.org/Portals/7/docs/Web%202.0/ExecSummaryCoSN%20Report042809Final.pdf

Watch telly go on !

Yes TV does exist I suggest you catch the BBC programme on BBC2 "The virtual revolution ! The programme talks

 "web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee,  journeys across four continents and six countries and speaks to more than 50 people who have made the web what it is today – including some rather famous names, such as Bill Gates, Al Gore, Stephen Fry, Jimmy Wales, Arianna Huffington, Mark Zuckerberg, Chad Hurley, Stewart Brand, Jeff Bezos … and the President of Estonia."'
My wife a gorgeous non tech time said she's going to watch it so I suggest you 20.30hrs on BBC2 and UK players can watch it later on Iplayer. The programme home page is found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/index.shtml

Helpfully Dr Aleks Krotoski programme producer and part of team at the Guardian Tech Weekly team discuss the series in the later part of their weekly Guardian Tech podcast you can listen to it at

Latest: Sir Tim Berners Lee on free data and the BBC's Virtual Revolution

ICT & Education: Eleven Countries to Watch -- and Learn From

From the world banks blog on ICT use in Education well worth a read great list of countries looking at 1:1 access and other work around ICT Uruguay, South Korea Singapore Malaysia and Namibia link http://ow.ly/11Tng

also highlight up and coming conference on 1:1 computing

International Conference on 1-to-1 Computing in Education

Together with our co-organizers, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), we are proud to announce an International Conference on 1-to-1 Computing in Education hosted by the government of Austria from 22-24 February 2010 in Vienna.

Results from this event will be covered on the World Bank EduTech blog beginning in March.

For more information and event registration, please see www.bildung.at/nml-conference2010.

One to watch
 

Brandheld by essential research

This report Branded services will make smart phones starts of with following statements
Handsets, cost and connection speed holding back mobile internet adoption


London, 21 January, 2010: A huge 76% of mobile phone users don’t use their mobile to access the internet a UK-wide study into our mobile habits by leading research specialist Essential Research has revealed. The news comes despite industry hype around the success of internet-enabled smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Nexus One.
Even more surprising is that 60% of UK mobile users claim to not even own a mobile with internet access and just 30% of these are interested in getting one. The picture gets worse for mobile operators with the revelation that even for upwardly mobile internet users and owners of smartphones, one third (31%) have never used their phone to connect to the internet, a quarter (24%) use it less than once a week and 8% tried it but don’t intend to do so again.
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Now Iam sure this reflects what researchers found but it doesnt reflect what I see around town but still give it a read it makes some interesting points. As always form your own view. Blog post relating to report can be found at http://www.essentialresearch.co.uk/blog/2010/01/branded-services-will-make-smart-phones/

Do it now and save £100 book for games Based Learning 2010

The closing date for early bird registration for one of the planets best games based learning event. Games Based Learning 2010. The presenters/contributors for the event are like the who's who of educational   use of games a list of some of them can be seen at http://www.gamebasedlearning2010.com/conference/speakers . Book by 31st Jan and you get early bird rate and save £100 registration details can be found here http://www.gamebasedlearning2010.com/conference/registration

plus there is free teachmeet event on the first night.

Apple Tablet Moment of discovery video

First predicition is wait and see

But joking aside look at this video from Apple who I do  fully credit from 1997 called a moment of discovery so Apple Newtons etc its not the first foray by Apple into the tablet world though radically different well the video is 13 years old

Moment of Discovery