Google master plan

complete paranoia or worrying eye opener not going to pass comment !
http://masterplanthemovie.com/

I use Google extensively for the convenience and access to services it give

Serendipity edublogs,social camp for innovation,SLF2008 all point me in direction of Charlie Leadbetter

I found this through a reminder for the social camp 4 innovation http://www.sicamp.org
on April the 4th in London and then Ewan McIntosh also mentioned it on edublogs.com. Charlie Leadbetter of forthcoming book "We think" http://www.wethinkthebook.net/book/home.aspx

It expounds the idea of mass shared creativity in a no nonsense approach

ideas take life when they are shared. That is why the web is such a potent platform for creativity and innovation.

worth a look at the first free chapters as a download on the website in a try before you buy scheme. Is this a web 1.5 business model for publishing ?? The good news he is speaking at Scottish learning Festival 2008 in September another good reason to book.

Save the Livesey Theatre goes mixed economy

A mixture of good old fashion lobbying and web 2.0 online petition and facebook group. Is facebook the new organisational tool for organising protest from students protesting about bank charges to saving cultural centres I think it is one of many that citizens are starting to use !! see the site for the campaign at
http://www.liveseymuseum.org.uk/
the idea for this blog posting came thanks to good old radio four !!

its not the cresta run but

The good old Sony Xacti gets a try out as an in sledge handicam . excuse poor technique but shows how robust the kit is ;-)))



experts sons run

Asus hits Currys.digital

Asts eeepc hits Currys in Ipswich note the price for the version without the webcam. Has the supply issue been solved !!

Teachmeet North East London

19th May venue North East London
What is it?

TeachMeet is a chance for us to share what has and is effective, exciting and innovative technology in our schools in an informal environment.

Those of us who have attended Teachmeets before have found them to be inspirational and a great form of CPD.

Basically turn up to lurk but you must be enthusiastic or ready to present either 7minutes or the breathtaking 2 minute Nano presentation . No guarantee you will get a chance to present but its all down to chance of a virtual slot machine. Its great go one if you teach in a school context I do Monday afternoons at my sons primary .

watch Nicholas Hughes video of Teachmmet 08 @ Bett of Derek Robertson of LTS talking about gaming in education video on Youtube .

Just be there!!!!!

Mobile 2.0

Huge thanks to Rudy De Waele of M-trends http://m-trends.org/ for sharing his presentation mobile 2.0 at Plugg conference a while ago http://plugg.eu/about-plugg

He kindly has stuck his slides on slideshare

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Ipod projector

Now this is an interesting one the ViewSonic PJ258D which allows you to project straight from your ipod !! Now I wouldnt rush out and buy one but interesting device http://www.viewsonic.com/HDLife/projectors/pj258d

Floculation of facebook friends leads to loads of idea's

Spent yesterday at real life event with 25 odd people of which 40% I knew through facebook.
shout outs for Ewan, Gill,Geoff,Josie .

Discussing work arond web 2.00 . Ewan McIntosh did a great Intro (check out his blog) he used loads of cool stuff to make a interesting range of points.

One thing he showed was http://www.gapminder.org
which basically a site portraying complex stuff via animation. my favourite is here
looking at countres developmen relative to each other .


Going to blog more about the event over coming days but hey its holiday time and I've been for run blogged and its not yet 7.30.

Digitally Organised V Digitally Chaotic

Recently I was lucky enough to meet up with Gráinne Conole now Professor of e-Learning at Open University . I last worked with Grainne when I Introduced her as a Keynote on the first Virtual Learning Environments online conference arranged by Friends at DirectLearn . Grainne has a blog at
http://www.e4innovation.com

She raised the idea of some young people being digitally organised I raised the juxtaposition or paradox they are also digitally chaotic . The face they are more like to abandon a web presence and set up a new one if they forget a password than retrieve a password .

Interesting and heavyweight thinking blog .

BBC school children in Tyne and Wear produce a film of their love of mobiles

worth a watch
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7292741.stm

ALT J article examining mobile learning

Now regular readers might know I am a member of the Association of Learning Technolgists which is very worthwhile. My latest copy of ALT J there journal had this interesting piece Esra Wali ; Niall Winters; Martin Oliver from the Institute of Education, University of London, UK

Maintaining, changing and crossing contexts: an activity theoretic reinterpretation of mobile learning

well worth a read I believe they do online samples anyhow read abstract here

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a790603532~db=all~order=page

Thanks for oe of my regular readers for prodding me to unwrap the copy of ALTJ sittng on my kitchen table from this morning.

Interesting piece on facebook and the deaf communty

Interesting site Deaf kitchen which is just that a blogger doing ASL (American Sign Language) filmed in his kitchen. Now I only do really limited BSL so ASL is a foriegn language (well it is ).

Interesting even if you dont do ASL because great example of video blogging and how good its getting quality wise and also because it made me thnk how powerful the web and specifically is as a tool for good.

http://deafkitchen.blogspot.com/2007/09/will-facebook-change-deaf-communitys.html

BCS article on mobile learning

Interesting article but it should be noted connectivity costs are tumbling and all you can eat data plans are very near !!

http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.18035

Forget Breakfast time Derek and coleagues work made newsround

Only one thing cooler than this woud be Blue Peter

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7290000/newsid_7295800/7295823.stm

Pico projectors economist article

Great article in the economist around pico or micro projectors that will make current day projectors look like colossus(one of the first computers that filled a room) does to a modern day; Apple air or Toshiba R500 or other ultraportable

Nice article with a level of technical detail but not to much to put ley readers off!!
http://www.economist.com/search/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10789401

Derek Robertson on the BBC radio and TV on Friday 14th March (today) talking about gaming in education

Huge heads up to Derek Robertson of the world famous team at the consolarium in Scotland .

Derek is appearing on the BBC Breakfast news and Radio Five Live tomorrow morning to talk about the large scale Nintendo project that I will be doing after the Easter Break. Full details of the times can be seen on his blog at www.hotmilkydrink.typepad.com . Although the first appearance is now at 6:20am.

view bbc news story and video clip of learners here

Derek is one of those unassuming people working with teachers technology and learners to make a difference . Derek keep up the great work. Got to add Dereks blog to my blog roll on the left !!

Google advancing the web as a platform

Google event worth a look
28-29th May San Fransisco Advancing the web as a platform

We spend a lot of time, especially within our Developer Products team,
talking about how to build applications for the web. After all, Google
was born on the web, and over time we've gained tons of experience with
AJAX and other technologies to build apps like Gmail, Google Maps,
Google Calendar and Google Docs.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-io-advancing-web-as-platform.html

now it mention normal stuff about the web but also mentions google gears is this the much talked off google offline apps !!!

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Facebook collaboration is it cheating ???

Thanks to Merv Stapleton for sending this story my way .My view is that collaboration online is not so different to classmates discussing their homework face to face ?? What do you think!!

Student faces Facebook consequences

Freshman hit with 147 academic charges for online study network at Ryerson University.Ryerson student Chris Avenir is facing expulsion for taking part in a Facebook study group for one of his engineering courses.

Study groups may be a virtual trademark of the Ivory Tower - but a virtual study group has been slammed as cheating by Ryerson University.

First-year student Chris Avenir is fighting charges of academic misconduct for helping run an online chemistry study group via Facebook last term, where 146 classmates swapped tips on homework questions that counted for 10 per cent of their mark.

The computer engineering student has been charged with one count of academic misconduct for helping run the group - called Dungeons/Mastering Chemistry Solutions after the popular Ryerson basement study room engineering students dub The Dungeon - and another
146 counts, one for each classmate who used the site.

The incident has sent shock waves through student ranks, says Kim Neale, 26, the student union's advocacy co-ordinator, who will represent Avenir at the hearing.

"All these students are scared s---less now about using Facebook to talk about schoolwork, when actually it's no different than any study group working together on homework in a library," said Neale.

"That's the worst part; it's creating this culture of fear, where if I post a question about physics homework on my friend's wall (a Facebook bulletin board) and ask if anyone has any ideas how to approach this - and my prof sees this, am I cheating?" said Neale, who has used Facebook study groups herself.

Ryerson's academic misconduct policy, which is being updated, defines it as "any deliberate activity to gain academic advantage, including actions that have a negative effect on the integrity of the learning environment."

Yet students argue Facebook groups are simply the new study hall for the wired generation.

Avenir said he joined the Facebook group last fall to get help with some of the questions the professor would give students
http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/03/facebook-new-study-hall-for-wired.html

MOMO cracking night leads to revelation of over the airways

Great night at my first ever mobile monday. looking at mobile apps for londoners majoring on stuff around transport. The great revaltion was the BBC backed over the air event. Its basecamp v hackaday v mobile plug fest if your interested in mobile youve got to be there !!!

Over the Air is a special event being organised by Mobile
Monday London, hosted by Imperial College and supported by the BBC. 48 hours of mobile and wireless development by and for the leading lights in the industry.

Some people are calling it Hackday for mobile but they’re quite different. Over the Air
is focused squarely on the mobile and wireless platforms. These
platforms are quite specialised and tend not to be very open to the
casual bedroom developer or for the busy professional. Over the Air
will be that chance many of us have wanted to try, play, experiment in
this new interesting sector. Not only that, a chance to learn from our
peers and industry leaders across the many platforms. Be it Android,
Series 60, OSX, Java, compact .net, etc, there all welcome to join the over the air party. So I look forward to seeing you

http://overtheair.org/blog/