I attended this event a week and of course blogged it at http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/2007/04/enhancing-learning-virtual-worlds.html
The presentations form the event are now all live and an and full audio to go with them with be avaialable from the 11th May. For now presentations can be found at www.becta.org.uk/enhancinglearningseminar
Thanks to Lisa Valentine from JISC Regional Support centre in the North West. She thought it was great and a really easy and clear way of describing what an RSS feed is. .http://www.leelefever.com/archives/001398.html.
thanks Lisa got to agree really nice resource.
i2010 is the European Commission's strategic policy framework laying out broad policy guidelines for the information society and the media in the years up to 2010. It promotes an open and competitive digital economy, research into information and communication technologies, as well as their application to improve social inclusion, public services and quality of life. Main i2010 site is here
This years annual reports are out and comes out with this interesting statement
ICT drives 50% of EU growth, says Commission's annual report on the digital economy
Public and private investment in information and communication technology (ICT) is bearing fruit, finds the Commission's annual progress report on i2010 – the digitally-led strategy for growth and jobs. Technology is fuelling innovation and productivity, and there are signs of fundamental change in markets and user behaviour, as Europe moves towards a knowledge-based economy.
read more and get country by country reports Here
Shocked as we all were by Virginia Tech shooting read this interesting post from Creative Development Team at Sheffield Hallam
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wordpress/?p=355
I also have an interest in SMS in disaster recovery linked to personal experience around 7/7 bombings in London . 160 characters in txt message isn't a lot of words but they can count for a lot when you need to get through to people and conventional phone network is down .
I attended sms in education conference a few weeks ago. Look at link to conference on sms texting in education http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/2007/04/talking-about-text-their-raving-about.html
plus the neat video. Also ability to create rss feeds from a website blog posting increase chance of getting your message out. www.txttools.co.uk one of there customers Yorkshire coast college has done a really good podcast about it http://podcast.ycoastco.ac.uk/weblog/admin/2007/04/26/PodcastingandSMSmp3.html
Thanks to Gerry Cordon of Liverpool community college for pointing this out
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/introducing-the-book-p1.php
This might amuse people who struggle introducing new technology to people. Those books will never catch on.
ALT is pleased to announce that this year we will be running, for the first time, a Learning Technologist of the Year Award.
The Chair of the judging panel is Professor Gilly Salmon.
Full details of the Award, including criteria, application process, prizes etc, will be published by mid May. In the meantime please note the following, and also draw this announcement to the attention of relevant colleagues.
The closing date and time for applications will be 09.00 GMT on Monday June 18th.
Answers to any questions raised about the Award will be published on the ALT web site during week beginning May 21st.
The judging panel will meet on June 27th.
We expect to interview shortlisted candidates on July 19th or July 20th.
The Award will be made at the 2007 ALT Conference Dinner in Nottingham on September 5th.
I will blog details as they appear or watch the ALT website www.alt.ac.uk
Ewan McIntosh
Educational Technologist
Learning and Teaching Scotland FuturesThis
year, 16-year-olds who know little about life before the Internet and
email will enter the workforce. Ewan McIntosh is an experienced teacher
and a recognised authority on new media and technology in the
classroom. He’ll lead a session on how understanding the interests of
IT-savvy teenagers will be critical if businesses and the government
are to get the best out of the next generation of worker.
excellent piece by Educause upping the mlearning anti in 2007 the year M goes mainstream interesting author to Ellen De Wagner of Macromedia. You might disagree with some of the content mobile learning v learning goes mobile but leave your views at home till you've read the whole article.
EDUCAUSE REVIEW | May/June 2005, Volume 40, Number 3
Cumulative number of weblogs - Technorati
Spam
Growth
Blogs vs. MSM
The multi-lingual web
Tags Stats
E-learning is fast becoming just another
way of delivering learning and every year there are more and more ways
and opportunities to deliver learning some using technology and some
that don’t.Learn how to use mobile and distance
learning to the maximum effect for your organisation and how to put
your learners first, both now and in the future.
Interesting programme with not the usual hard core mlearning evangelists/pathfinders I ally myself with but great to see another event spreading the message. Programme link below
http://www.elearningage.co.uk/prog17.htm
Ok its not the m-crowd but the plenty of room for new people currents pretty strong in the mainstream.
I was lucky enough to meet Mary Lou Jepsen at Mlearn2006 in Alberta I sat down next to her at breakfast !!!Mary is a leading part of the one laptop per child project team .It has the weirdest homepage but its the initiative that everybody has talked about knocked praised and it really is beginning to happen. http://www.laptop.org/index.shtml
they're is some really long but good video on the project at http://1laptop1student.blogspot.com/2007/04/olpc-tech-talk-w-google.html
some really interesting results of trialling in Nigeria
And from karlfich blog
a great quote for those that said they would'nt do it
Oh, and they're hoping to ship 10 million of them this year, 50-100 million next year.
Move over XBOX 360 as biggest product roll out in history
Plus my own thought mesh technology is the future !!!
Need I say more but bring it on google !! read about on googles own blog !!!
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/were-expecting.html
This is likely to be a great event.
Supported by my friends at DirectLearn who are rapidly becoming the online conference organisers in the UK.
This is to let you know about the Jisc 2007 online conference, following last year's successful conference. This year, the topic is Innovating e-Learning 2007 - Institutional Transformation and Supporting Lifelong Learning, 11 - 14 June 2007
The conference focuses on the potential of e-learning in transforming practice within institutions and in supporting lifelong learning. The keynote presenters will offer a rich variety of perspectives on these themes:
Theme 1: Institutional transformation Day 1: Terry Mayes, Emeritus Professor, Glasgow Caledonian University, and Day 2: Dr John Guy, Principal, and Dr Mike Docker, Director, ICLT, the Sixth Form College, Farnborough
Theme 2: Supporting Lifelong Learning, introduced by Robin Mason, Professor of Educational Technology at The Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University
The concluding presentation will be given by Oleg Liber, Professor of e-Learning and Director of the Research Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS), University of Bolton.
As well as these keynote presenters, there is a very large number of other sessions and presentations, making up what we hope is an exciting and useful programme. The full programme (and booking
information) can be seen at:
www.jisc.ac.uk/elp_conference07
As last year, the conference will be open for a week for pre-conference reading, from the 4th June. The conference itself will run from 11-14 June and will then remain open for viewing for a full month, until 15 July.
Thanks to Bob Harrison for drawing this community to my attention ages back and finally got round to blogging it . It seems with a lot of the debate on virtual communities (second life etc) and the role this may play in augmenting enriching peoples lives this particular community seems to have been round a while . The front page blog is really interesting reading . Brigadoon specific community is those with Aspergers syndrome .
Brigadoon
more detail on the background to the community can be found at http://braintalk.blogs.com/brigadoon/2005/01/about_brigadoon.html
This looks really useful for those of your working with wireless !!
UKERNA launched the Wireless Technology Advisory Service (WTAS) at Networkshop on 4/05/07. This service provides free advice and guidance to organisations on all aspects of wireless technologies. A wide range of information is published on this web site, including technology guides, and case studies
For a number of years JANET-connected organisations have been deploying wireless LANs (WLANs) alongside the wired networking infrastructure within their campuses. The rate of growth in the deployment of WLANs within the teaching and learning environment is accelerating, in parallel with the demand-driven proliferation of fixed and mobile wireless technologies and standards.
Thanks to Ivan for posting this as comment to earlier blog posting impressed Ivan very neat !!!
RSS 2 to PDF free ATOM feeds conversion converts RSS2PDF: "Flexta takes a fresh approach to information publishing with RSS2.
In simple terms, RSS2 can convert multiple RSS and ATOM feeds into a single, consolidated PDF file without the need for expensive software, computer programming, or complicated RSS readers."
American Society for Training & Development online magazine http://www.learningcircuits.org/ is doing a survey on mobile learning . m learning moving up the agenda again do the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?U=475073462983
2007 the year mlearning goes mainstream ??
This is so cool works to produce a visual mapping of a search its a little like aquabrowser which I have blogged before works interestingly for google and amazon data.
TouchGraph | HomePublish
MidnightSun Assistive Technology Conference#
Anchorage in Alaska great location and timing for conference and content seems interesting anyone going and got space in the suitcase ??
Huge heads up the blog from read write web team for this .
if your serious about mobile a list to check out not all maybe your cup of tea, latte or cappuccino but worth a look. excuse poor tagging on this but tagging could take longer than the post !!!
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/85_piece_mobile_search_tool_kit.php
I first blogged this back in November 2005 ( have I really been blogging that long!) http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/2005/11/blogs-into-pdf.html its had some nice features added since then including support for flickr photo stream http://rss2pdf.com/flickr/
The original RSS to PDF tool can be found at http://rss2pdf.com/index.php
great tool i think I will add it to my sidebar links in coming weeks.
This is a lovely use of mobile gps technology with a serious aim sea turtle conservation.
http://www.greatturtlerace.com/ .
Select your turtle and watch the race . The site shows educational use of gps and the the world wide web.
Channel 4 Education special conference … In the Wild Well being, the Web and the future of Education 10 May 2007 London
We would be delighted if you can join us. This unique event will bring over 200 young people, educators, policy makers and representatives of the broadcast and digital media worlds together to explore some of the most important challenges facing young people as they are growing up today and some of ideas that are shaping the future of output of Channel 4 Education. We have arranged a great roster of speakers including
* Richard Reeves, Nick Baylis and Kathy Evans on well being
* James Bradburne, Pat Kane and Penelope Tobin on informal learning
* Bronwyn Kunhardt, Rachel O’Connell and Ewan McIntosh on living online
* Matthew Taylor, Mike Gibbons and Anna Craft on next practice in schools
There will also be an opportunities to participate in an ‘open space’ session where you as our guest can take control of the agenda and lots of chances to meet Channel 4 executives and hear about the plans for the future of Channel 4 Education on screen and online.
register here
Came across two great blogs while looking at Ewan Mcintosh's blog http://edu.blogs.com
are the kids at room 9 central nelson school !!! Check the classes first ever podcast how cool is that http://room9nelsoncentral.blogspot.com/Well go on regular readers of Andysblackhole go and listen to the podcast and post a comment.
Another excellent report from Demos its open paragraph on the web is interesting
Competition and choice have become the watchwords of public service reform over the past decade. But while these principles have delivered some important gains, they are not enough in isolation. Tight accountability and choice have often come at the expense of fragmenting the way that schools, hospitals and councils provide their services. Service improvement has come at the expense of the capacity to solve local people’s problems.
Seriously good article about M-services for development. Upasna Kakroo has written a really great article. raise interesting points through out the article especially around bridging the divide why mobile . Notably she targets three areas for discussion.
Mobile learning and mobile Internet explored at Seriously Mobile Summit 20 April
SERIOUSLY EVENT AT A COST BUT SPEAKERS AND PROGRAMME LOOKS INTERESTING
"Mobile internet, working in real time and supporting mobile workforce capability is the theme for this year's summit. We have assembled several of the world's top mobile learning experts to lead the event, including speakers from Ericsson, Giunti Labs and Reuters, three organizations that are leading the way in mobile learning and mobile Internet technology" said Ron Edwards, organizer of the Seriously Mobile Summit and one of its keynote presenters.
2007 Theme: The Mobile Internet: Working in Real Time
Supporting Mobile Workforce Capability
“Creativity is no longer about which companies have the most visionary executives, but which have the most compelling architecture of participation. That is, which companies make it easy, interesting and rewarding for a wide range of contributors to offer ideas, solve problems and improve products” - Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media
We will explore:
I was lucky enough to be in Southwold in Suffolk on its stunning beach yesterday and noted a long standing restaurant the Dutch barn on the beach road has become Casa Mia it does look really nice . I was taken by this part of the chalked sign. Now is being able to pick up email and access the web a joy or a burden. I was made to think of an earlier article in the guardian about a map of tranquillity nothing to do with technology do we need now to think of maps of non broadband non 3g tranquillity to here is a link to original guardian article
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,1928957,00.html.
What I think is nicer is the boys playing behind the sign see above or ten minutes earlier dads feet had been buried in sand by the mischevious duo.
Well worth a browse. I advice you look at both school specific and non school power point and look at the data as I said in Leeds a week today the world has changed and is changing further.
the employment trends and links with Englands decline in power in the early early mid twentieth century is interesting.
BTW
If you havent read Tom Standage's Victorian internet you should . http://www.tomstandage.com/vicnet.html
e-skills UK has today published the IT Professional Competency Model - a new, sector-wide approach to expressing IT professional capabilities. This simple and flexible model represents a breakthrough in helping employers, educators and others to communicate using a common language and framework for skills, knowledge and experience.
The IT Professional Competency Model builds on the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA), allocating the competencies IT professionals have – in other words, what they can actually do – into a simple suite of subject-based 'disciplines' and levels. The model also includes transferable skills, such as business and personal skills, which apply to all disciplines. It is based on extensive consultation with employers of IT professionals in all areas of the economy.
This part of the site is intended to be a store of useful resources for researchers and students in Mobile Learning. It will grow as additional resources are contributed by members of the SIG.
