BETT 2007
Main aims
- Survival
- See whats news
- Meeting with contacts
- Handheld learning will continue to grow
- Wireless will be everywhere
- blogging will be everywhere in and out the classroom
Welcome to Andy's first blog what's this blog going to cover Tech for Good, Outdoor stuff and challenge Adventure and some fun stuff you didn't know about me. Why Andy's Black Hole? Well it was going to be called Andy's Ramblings from edge but Katrina Lambert came up with a better suggestion. What’s it for? A place Andy can dump all the things he come across that might be useful to those people living the dream of #Justdoinggood
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Just been mucking around with autostitch software I mentioned a while ago software can be found at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
Install the free download and just drop your shots that make up your panorama and it does the rest. Here is an attempt from shot taken from drigg dunes in Cumbria looking back to the Western lake District very neat indeed, No work on my part apart from selecting the images it does all the rest !!!
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Researchers at Nokia, meanwhile, speculate that within a decade, the cost of storage will have fallen so far that it might be possible to store every piece of music ever recorded in a single chip that could be included in each phone.http://economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=8312260
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A huge heads up to Bob Stumpel for this its quite simply a great blog .
http://bobstumpel.blogspot.com
Two huge things of note
The most brilliant Web 2.0 things in 2006
web2.0 2006 most brilliant
Great stuff there note sure about chick adviser is that real !!!! Hitchhikr sounds interesting share knoweledge on conferences.
Then Telecoms 2.0
http://bobstumpel.blogspot.com/2006/12/telecom-20.htm
Without a doubt, "social phone apps & services" are amongst the most interesting areas within the 2.0 zone. And I expect this category to explode in 2007. Bobs words but he is right the telecoms area and social networking mobility is going to go mental in 2007
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Labels: blogging, RSS, social networking, web2.0
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Well I know its not e-learning but aren't these two little craft doing well
Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Press Release Images: Spirit
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Thanks to Fred garnett for pouinting this out made me smile
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=10620
Interesting blog added to my bloglines !!!!
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Kevin Hickey RSC Northwest ILT Inspire conference has done a great load of resources of blogs,wikki & stuff
http://del.icio.us/smilt
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not social bookmarks in true sense but I have shared my favourites with you http://www.bloglines.com/public/ajb1962
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Currently at this event Kevin Hickey mentioned social bookmarks if you want to learn more look at the link from Educause from the states
7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking
PDF handout on social book marking
7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking
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From the BBC
"There are now more than 100 million web sites on the Internet, which
gained 3.5 million sites last month to continue the dynamic growth seen
throughout 2006. In the November 2006 survey we received responses from 101,435,253 sites, up from 97.9 million sites last month."
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/11/01/november_2006_web_server_survey.html
But the question I pose how many do you and how many a redundant ???
Andy
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As some of
you know I put forward while seconded to DfES last year the idea of a glossary
of ICT terms in British Sign Language The site has involved the British
Computer Society Allowing there book of terms to be used as a basis for the
text and huge project involving consensus modeling of asking those tutors
working with learners how to sign complex and new terms. The company involved
with the work with the deaf community are our friends from Directlearn Judith
mole and Geoff Minshull (who have helped Becta run previous online conferences
and independently ran the VLE2 virtual conference last week. The site goes live tomorrow Halloween Mid
morning an auspicious day because it’s also my wife’s fortieth Birthday. Url
for the site is http://www.slcresources4ict.net/
Please
circulate widely as it is a useful resource for those who want text based
definitions of ICT terms. A lovely example of appropriate use of technology!!
I will circulate
more formal press release type stuff later.
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Well this link maybe useful if your saving your pennies to attend Mlearn2007 in Melbourn Australia.
Frist the dates 16th to 19th October . Met someone the organsing committee at Mlearn2006 in Banff and it going to be great !!! web link at http://www.mlearn2007.org/
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Got togive this a huge heads up if your a sceptic a convert or agnostic to MindMapping this site is really worth a look. http://mindmapping.pbwiki.com
It was started by Dave Foord E-Learning Staff Development Co-ordinator University of Derby who is a real expert on Mindmapping amongst lot of other things.
Personally I am using Mindmanger to present at Mlearn to and used it in conjuction with camtasia screen caputre software for my gadget gumption presentation at the recent and highly succesful vle2 online conference arranged by geoff Minshull and Judith Mole at Directlearn http://www.online-conference.net
Toreturn to Mindmapping Wikki resources added by JISC Regional Support centre Scotland have really got to be applauded Hugh and the crew have pioneered the use of MindManager in the UK see his recent posting on the wikki at Mind
Mapping and Learning Sequence Creation
great stuff.
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A real gem of a presentation on looking at using M-learning and mobile portfolios prsentation to follow but link to Selena blog at http://mportfolios.blogspot.com
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Scybe is this to good to be true not available yet but watch the video clip .
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/10/20/scrybe-the-online-productivity-suite-im-dying-to-try/
Scrybe - the online productivity suite I'm dying to try - Download Squad
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Still at Mlearn 2006 but another interesting event in cyberspace .
A really interesting event that might be of interest to those working with Deaf people.
The Supporting Deaf People online conferences are aimed at Deaf people, interpreters, CSWs, teachers of the deaf, lecturers for deaf people, deaf studies or interpreting students, anyone who works with or has an interest in deaf people. This is the fourth in the series of highly successful conferences, and the 2006 conference promises the same level of cutting edge, high quality debate. For more information, see:
http://www.online-conference.net/sdp2006/introduction.htm
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after a unplanned but excellent day helping Jo Colley of Tribal CTAD on authoring mobile learning materials by tutors see a overview of the stuff they are doing !!http://www.m-learning.net/
The Mary Lou Jespen number two of the one child per laptop did a excellent key note Chief Technology Officer One Laptop per Child will link http://laptop.org
have a look designing a device from bottom up !
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Well if you coming its still chilly fleece gloves hat and Jackets weather bringing your bathing suit the hot natural pools are great !!
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Labels: m-learning, m-learning handheld, mobile
Well got here 12.30 Canadian yesterday and seetle in Y mountain lodge functional fun simple accomodation with wifi $12 for 24 hours ( under £6) 0r 300 minutes for $20 (under £10) over any period. Its a bit chilly Banff is typical north american town or new zealand but very stunning scenery around. Not quite northern exposures photos at
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cuurently up running a online conference session for Direct learns VLE2 conference http://www.online-conference.net/vle2006/introduction.htm 2.34 am here in Banff
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well all I have to say calgary airport dinosaur models and free wifi next to the banff airporter desk http://www.banffairporter.com/
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Sitting here at at 3.50 am after overnighting on a very comfortable Gatwick airport bench. I am remnided from the line from the Blues Brother "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses" I seem to remember next line was hit it!!!
or is it we are on Mlearning "Mission from god".
Lucky enough to be going to Mlearn2006 in Banff In Alberta Canada about to embark on the 10 hour flight going to blog the experience so come along from the ride.
Next blog will be from Alberta airport which free WiFi so I am told.
Fellow Mlearners from the UK will be arriving Bob Harrison, Jo Colley (CTAD) Dave Whyley (learning to go) and John Cook (London Metropolitan University) its going to be great and I suspect challenging to blog !!
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Geoff stead at CTAD has got to have the bigs heads up for this stunning bit of work.
The ability to produce your own content for Portable Play Sation (PSP) is just so so cool .
Visit his his blog bookmark it , put it on your public bloglines http://moblearn.blogspot.com/2006/10/make-your-own-playstation-psp-resources.html
PSP think
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From its humble ecletic begining last year at goldsmiths university it has grown to an event at prestigious 2 day event at QE2 confrence centre in the heart of Westminster .
Really great programme going to be doing a lot of blogging on the topic of M learning .
I also have to tell you first bit of excitement Geoff (Mr Mobile) Stead of Cambridge Training and Development who make the successful build it yourself mobile learing resource authoring tool to produce resource for the awesome Sony PSP as well as pocket pc it does currently. Link to story on Geoff Blog below and link to Geoff Influential blog on mobile learing in my link bar on the left.
http://moblearn.blogspot.com/2006/10/make-your-own-playstation-psp-resources.html
see you at handheld !!
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This is a really interesting collection of tolls relating loosely to web two and learners but actually is just a lovely college of stuff some of which is new . Be afraid be very afraid
two part article thanks to Rob and Digg for giving me the pinter here .
Article 1 http://www.solutionwatch.com/512/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-1/
Article 2 http://www.solutionwatch.com/512/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-2/
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Google are busy another launch today.
A resource for teachers, literacy organisations and
anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with
LitCam, Google, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning.
The partners are as interesting as the project
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The numbers of people surfing or even paddling from there mobiles is low.
Launch of the dotmobi domains that subscribe to good efficient design for mobile use may start pushing the numbers up. Read the story at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5379170.stm
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This is thanks to Becta research list and specifically thanks to Ewan McIntosh
New Technologies Research Practitioner. He posted about removing the next blog on blogger . Now removed from this blog and exposed me to some really nice resources on blogging and teaching.
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle/creativeteaching/blogging/creatingablog.asp
Thanks Ewan.
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I know in many of my presentations i have talked of google office and also the link between sun microsystems ( who are behind openoffice) as open source offline suite of basic tools.
Its seems Microsoft have been listening and is planning a free web based version of its word processing and spreadsheet programme
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5370144.stm
interesting is this paragraph from the BBC site
No date has been set for when the free programs will show up on the net but the software giant told the Reuters news agency that it was "considering" new distribution and payment models for its software.
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Only blogging this becuase a conversation I had after my workshop with a learning technologist working with midwifery students who asked me about roll up screens one to watch
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5366534.stm
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Help inform JISC's thinking on Web 2.00
Web 2.0: open call for input to forthcoming TechWatch report
As became apparent from the
recent ALT-C 2006 conference, Web 2.0 is hot. Everyone wants to know
more about it, and there are a lot of people who have very different,
and strongly held, opinions on what Web 2.0 is and where it's going.
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Not quite but this story suggests its not far off .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5359724.stm
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Well I am lucky enough to be going Mlearn in
in the heart of the Canadian Rockies the
conference is the 22nd till 25th October I am lucky
enough to be flying out on the 18th . The downside is there is one I
am running a gadgetgumption presentation online on the 19th as part
of http://www.online-conference.net/vle2006/introduction.htm
. I have worked out being online interacting with
participants involves me being up at 3am for those logging on a 9.00am
Mlearn is going to be really exciting as I am presenting a proof
of concept for showing British Sign language glossaries on a mobile device .
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Huge thanks for finding out about this from ALTC 2006 http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2006/
review programme at http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2006/timetable.html
plus from
noteworthy fortnightly mailing detail at
http://fm.schmoller.net/
This extensive work first available as an e-book one to read and use http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=10569&bhcp=1
The report from the UK based Space Management Group which looks at estates
issues in HE http://www.smg.ac.uk/
two extremely useful reports on future changes in HE http://www.smg.ac.uk/documents/FutureChangesInHE.pdf
and on promoting space efficiency in HE http://www.smg.ac.uk/documents/PromotingSpaceEfficiency.pdf
Finally JISC's recently published Designing space for
effective learning spaces well worth a read http://www.jisc.ac.uk/eli_learningspaces.html
Those involved with building schools for the future Reports/toolshttp://www.bsf.gov.uk
in the UK could well take note of these
pieces of work
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Found this lovely eclectic mix of academic and fun blog of the Becta research list (which by the way you can join at http://lists.becta.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/research ) iThe podcasting Ireland blog is by Bernard Goldbach and really is worth a look !! You can find it at http://www.podcasting.ie/
good one Bernard
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how good is this simple tutorials on podcasting
http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/
Thanks Jason Vanorden
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Hi all
get my presentation from my edubloggers training blog at http://andyb.edublogs.org
blogger doesnt allow file downloads I want.
By the way audience was great !!!!
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From Merv Stapleton at Sunderland College.
Google have released a news archive search which includes articles over the last 200 years from a variety of sources including the Guardian, New York Times and various aggregators.
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&tab=wn&q
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Well only been here a while and Diane oblinger already coming up with challenging ideas,
Amateurs as authorities
wikkipdedia ,blogging
Suggest the digital age is increasing the rate of change almost exponetional. Young people say its not technology its just the way it is.
Suggests the interface is shaping learning
Connecting
George Seamens connectivity link
Connecting in virtual worlds , collaborating by design
Hallways V Passageways these are important spaces for exchange collaboration
Active collaboration
Studio approach to learning
all work in progress is visible and shared.
Participatory
Integrative
Learning to be
National ecological observatory
Visual
Experiential
Reconstruction
shift between formal and informal environments role of space in promoting learning .
Debate of library or information commons
movable furniture
wireless access
e book learning space Diane Oblinger link
refreshing point of align technology with pedagogy don't mistake use for integration .
"The goal is organization that is making future rather than defending the past"
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Thinking of buying kit for home or college this is worth a read covers most manaufacturers
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/greener-electronics-guide
Thanks Fred for making me aware of this one !!
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Borrowing one of these for this session at ALT C in Edinburgh first week in September !!
http://alt.ac.uk/altc2006/timetable/abstract.php?abstract_id=764
a lot more excitng than title of this posting !!
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-mini/overview/
Basicallly a add on allowing quick access to application button each button displays what you access when you hit it. ie video web feeds etc seems amazing !! Will post some reflections when i have used it !!!
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Facinating article from the guardian !!!
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1843263,00.html
does make me think which ones I would list . Have to think on that I can feel a poll coming on !!
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Interesting statistic that 75% of home connections to the internet are now broad band !!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5278856.stm
Broadband britain !!
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Want to keep up to date with what Ministers and DfES are talking about subscribe to the RSS that can be found http://www.dfes.gov.uk/feeds/
This is a postive step !
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Want to keep up to date with what Ministers and DfES are talking about subscribe to the RSS that can be found http://www.dfes.gov.uk/feeds
This is a postive step !
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Does this work http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5234668.stm
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A really interesting article on the evolving world of search and so called searcg 2 technologies often described as next steps for google and yahoo !!
Its so called third genration search techonlogies Richard MC Manus definition is really neat ;
- First-generation search ranked sites based on page content - examples are early
yahoo.com and Alta Vista.- Second-generation relies on link analysis for ranking - so they take the structure of
the Web into account. Examples are Google and Overture.- Third-generation search technologies are designed to combine the scalability of
existing internet search engines with new and improved relevancy models; they bring into
the equation user preferences, collaboration, collective intelligence, a rich user
experience, and many other specialized capabilities that make information more productive.Examples: Swicki, Rollyo, Clusty, Wink, Lexxe
article link here
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Serious cash
If your library or similar organisation provides access to
information using computers and the Internet free of charge to users,
we should like to hear your story.
We invite you to apply for the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation’s annual Access to Learning Award. This award
recognises excellence in providing access to information through
computers, at no cost to the user. The recipient will receive an award
of up to US $1 million.
The award is administered by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP).
Deadline for the 2007 award is 31 December 2006.http://www.inasp.info/ldp/awards/
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The BlogSafety.com forum, where parents, teens, educators, and experts discuss and learn about safe blogging and social networking. You might call this social networking about the social networks! http://www.blogsafety.com/index.jspa
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Excellent glad to see the Eatern region e learning fair is still doing the business you must give it a look .
http://ahi2000.com/studyzone/webtools/intro.htm This catalogue of interesting
web tools and free software is a development of a site used to entertain
and inspire visitors to an e-learning fair in early July 2006.
We welcome suggestions for additions and no
doubt some entries may turn out to be inappropriate or just not
very good - so regard this as a place to pop into from time to time
rather than a definitve guide.
We shall also be including examples of tools
in action and would be keen to have links to how you have found
any utilised to good effect.
It is an assortment
of tools and services from a wide range of sources, all of which
are accessible via the internet, and most of which do not require
a software installation on either your home machine or a college
PC.
We hope to encourage you to think
more about what the web can offer for a particular task or idea,
rather than thinking that everything must revolve around the PC
you're using.
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Stuck on a train and saved by a podcast of digital planet planet by the
BBC and there is a piece on copyright creative commons licensing and an
open source recipe for amongst a few other things a licence for a recipe
for free beer . So go on download the piece or listen again. At
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/worldservice/godigital/r
ss.xml
I also discovered juice downloads simple show notes at the same time as
the audio posted below.
"On Digital Planet this week, Gareth Mitchell hears from Rio de Janeiro
how Microsoft now include a Creative Commons license for documents and
how the same scheme can get you a free beer. Clark Boyd reports from a
conference in New York on ?persuasive gaming? - video games that teach
about global conflict"
Enjoy
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Those BBC `and Ultralab chaps have done it again
Blast is taking to the road this summer with a mobile creative studiohttp://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/opportunities/blast_on_tour/about.shtml
offering digital media and creative experiences to young people. It's
more than a truck - think dream workshop space crossed with media
production studio.
Basic detail at
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Two right on reports on hot issues
Number one
Social software and learning
By Martin Owen, Lyndsay Grant, Steve Sayers and Keri Facer
This report explores the relationship between the emergence of social
software and the personalisation of education. It suggests that there
is a changing view of what education is for, with an emphasis on the
need for young people to develop the skills necessary for today's
evolving global knowledge economy. Alongside this development is the
rapid growth of social software, characterised as software that
supports group interaction, and by combining these two trends there is
significant potential to see a new approach to education.
| The potential of open source approaches for education By Seb Bacon and Teresa Dillon Free, Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) refers to any software distributed under a licence that allows users to change or share the software source code. Futurelab’s interest in this area stems from the belief that FLOSS provides an example of peer-production which is driven by collaborative, social modes of interaction and knowledge exchange. This paper discusses some of the potential ways in which the approaches that characterise FLOSS might be applied in educational contexts. For both pieces of view online and PDF versions at http://www.futurelab.org.uk/research/opening_education.htm great stuff another thing to read !!! |
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Well you know how good technews is if you picked it up please help the team at Becta and do there survey .
Survey can be found
Government & partners - Becta
If you havent seen technews get it from www.becta.org.uk/technews and subscribe to the regular postings .
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Listening to Lee Bryant of Headshift www.headshift.com and Terry Freedman talk at seminar on web 2 and blogger creating a system so one can phone in audio bloggs http://www.audioblogger.com the following thought hit me. The situation of 2.0 is not read write web but a read write talk listen web or maybe more .
Please note service is to a US number
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Hows about this for neat txttools www.txttools.co.uk who also produce excellent SMS messenger service Edutxt. Have produced a system that converts RSS feeds on websites,blogs and feeds into mobile phones using SMS various option are available. For example just subject header or actual content.
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Hows about this for neat txttools www.txttools.co.uk who also produce excellent SMS messenger service Edutxt. Have produced a system that converts RSS feeds on wesite,blogs and feeds into mobile phones using SMS various option are available. For example just subject header or actual content.
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Those who have been demostrating the use of SMS messaging are interested to see Ukerna canvassing opinion of the sector . So please fill in the survey on
SMS in Education at http://webdev.ukerna.ac.uk/smssurvey/html/main.php
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I know I mention this every time but if you havent subscribed to TechNews (the links in my side bar on the left). Quite simply brilliant it’s one of the ways I stay up to date with whats happening and is coming over the horizon. Link here http://lists.becta.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/technews
“It’s not the things you predict, it’s the things you miss”
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Caught up to this after release thanks to good old podcasting !! This programme sets out the challenges of Web 2.0 . It has loads of good stuff and this great quote from BBC Director General Mark Thompson
"The BBC aims to be not on the web put part of the web"
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From InformationWeek | Google | Gartner: Google Likely To
Buy Another Online Office App | June 14, 2006
Scary thing is that on both of my
presentations this week I have said google presentations is coming!!!! http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189401378&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
looks like I might be right !!
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This realy excellent Online conference looks like being a real hit get your registration in early a real bargain and excellent range of speakers. Plus no travel and accomodation costs BARGAIN!!!
http://www.online-conference.net/vle2006/introduction.htm
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Interesting article in BCS e-bulletin suggests that future mobile services must focus on consulting users.
http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.4828
Interesting quote from Nokia
With this in mind Nokia is releasing its own platform to the open
source community to help service providers develop sites for mobile
users.
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The organisation Childnet has produced a great publication on Blog Safety
Keeping up with Child's Online social life!http://www.childnet-int.org/blogsafety/
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Ever wanted to create a panorama using digital images .Merv Stapleton of City of Sunderland College made made aware of this. Looks really good. Follow link below
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
Autostitch is the product of two years of research by Matthew Brown and
David Lowe at the University of British Columbia. For details and
research papers please their panorama research page.
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exchange 2007 the challenge how we can change the system and still get the good bits we want The challenge from Stuart Robinson
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The quality of debate has been really high. the programme supported by interactive technologys such as
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what an expereince 4 countries of the UK all in one place for three days in gorgeous Belfast
Xchange website
http://becta.org.uk/xchange2006/index.cfm
but more use the blog with loads and loads of presentations and personal relfections by participants.
http://xchangeblogs.com/communities/xchange2006/
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"Veotag is a new service, in beta, that lets you display clickable text, called "veotags" within an audio or video file.
"Veotagging" is designed to let you make tables of contents, chapter headings and menus; add tags, transcripts and comments to enhance the user's experience; and even to let you tag audio and video files you find on the web."
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A thoughtfrom xchange2006 from Mick Waters at QCA he says how we give learners gadget gumption to pick up and use technology. Do we have to teach them does our current teaching in some way put them off just picking up tools (gadgets).
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Thanks to Geoff Stead at CTAD for this meaty morsel clever stuff. As somebody who spent years learning dark arts of AutoCad I feel vaguely depressed!! see link at :
http://sketchup.google.com/
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The March of Google continues with a spreadsheet offerring, We have :
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The annual state of the Union review of ICT by becta is now available.
The Becta Review is an annual publication that draws on a range of recent surveys and research studies to summarise trends in technology adoption and use, and to assess the progress and impact of technology in education. You can order or download the Becta Review 2006, which includes a section on personalised content and the use of digital resources in schools and the learning and skills sector, from Becta publications http://becta.org.uk/corporate/publications/index.cfm
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Details of the categories for the BETT Awards 2007 and an online entry form are now available on the Becta website. The BETT Awards - a partnership between Becta, BESA and EMAP - will focus this time on products that demonstrate innovation and support the personalisation agenda. The twelve categories include two new ones: 'Creative and constructive tools' and 'Learning objects to support personalisation'. The closing date for entries is 19 July 2006, and you'll find full details on the BETT Awards [ http://www.bettawards.com ].
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Want to know what the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) actually means by personalisation?
The DfES has published a pamphlet summarising current thinking about personalised learning with the intention of stimulating debate. You can download the pamphlet, A national conversation about personalised learning, from the DfES Standards Site [ http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/innovation-unit/personalisation/anationalconversation
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thanks to Rob for pointing this out a neat interface for PDA/smartphone for gmail looks really good . The google juggernaut continues. It renders to whatever size of device you have. http://www.google.com/gmm/gmail
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Orange are offerring the concept of one handset to cover
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Italian site that has really interesting accessibility colour wheel that stimulates various conditions relating to vision really worth a look.
http://gmazzocato.altervista.org/index.php?lingua=en
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