Thursday, February 25, 2010

Easy Youtube

Is it just me or is this potentially a great way of viewing YouTube video in a controlled and beautifully usable/accessible way

http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/

Thanks Adrian for link.

Monday, February 08, 2010

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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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

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

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

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 !!