Beyond Blogs Newsweek points to social media

Interesting article reflecting on an original article three years ago on how blogs would change your business
. The year was 2005, and the story was "Blogs Will Change Your Business."

this update is worth a read.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_22/b4086044617865.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_dialogue+with+readers

Future Lab event Why Don’t You…? Supporting innovative approaches in education

30th 31st October Immrasat in London

http://www.futurelab.org.uk/events/listing/why_dont_you

If we are to move towards a more personalised education system, then we need to support a wide range of innovators in education. This event will explore the conditions, tools and strategies that support innovation, focusing on teacher practice and the design and development of digital learning resources that support new approaches to learning and teaching.

Through a mix of inspirational presentations and hands-on activities, it has been designed to more specifically address issues such as:

• What tools are available to enable teachers to move towards more personalised approaches to teaching and learning?
• How can we innovate to respond to the changing needs of learners in a digital society?
• What examples of innovative practice are there in the UK?
• How can we encourage teachers to apply more innovative and creative uses of digital learning resources in UK schools that are suitable to learners' needs?
• How can we foster a culture of innovation in education?
• At policy level, how can we facilitate and encourage these innovative practices in order to create a climate which actively fosters this shift?

I am running a session called

BLOG OFF: these Web 2.0 tools will never make it into the learner experience
This workshop involves a tour of some Web 2.0 tools that are used by learners, and issues such as barriers to teaching staff deploying these tools to support learning will be examined. The workshop will be themed between rapid delivery sessions and a chance for participants to create artefacts.

see my bio at
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/events/listing/why_dont_you/speakers

but whats more scary are the other speakers:

Donald Clark
Shaa Wasmund
Lizbeth Goodman, SMARTLab
Andy Black, Becta
Trevor Baylis OBE
Eric Rosenbaum, MIT
Mark Pearce
Natalie Jeremijenko

really grown up stuff .

Missed me blogs second birthday

Well this was my first post on the 18th may 2005

http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/2005/05/professor-david-morrison-at-bath.html

This is my latest
http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/2007/05/mesh-technology-to-geeky-for-some-but.html

Theres been 338 posts in total when I've got some more time I will do a more fitting analysis of my blogging behaviour

Keep your eye on the ball I missed charting being added to google spreadsheets

After raving about RSS feeds and watching them via bloglines,google and google alerts I've missed something massive. Andy repeat after me you will register for the google system blogs feed. Because I missed launch of charting from google docs. Ok its not as exciting as when they finally come out with google presenter (or whatever they call it) but it still pretty cool .http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-spreadsheets-charts.html



also interesting article on the same blog why comparing google docs,google mail to Microsoft office isnt a similar comparison according to google but the cynics amongst you would say well they would say that wouldnt they. . http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/02/google-docs-spreadsheets-vs-microsoft.html