Some reading…
Like the good old days of ‘edu-blogging’ Lisa Nielsen has compiled 20 great blogs to read. Go add them to your good old fashioned rss reader and enjoy!
Like the good old days of ‘edu-blogging’ Lisa Nielsen has compiled 20 great blogs to read. Go add them to your good old fashioned rss reader and enjoy!
So Google have started releasing their new social product Google+ or Google Plus. And it looks interesting if a little familiar to Twitter & Facebook. Of particular interest is their attempt to allow you to segment your acquaintances and share certain information with certain people via the ‘circles’ feature: This makes sense – I’m often a bit uncomfortable with my mix…
Lord David Puttnam, man of many hats, but perhaps pertinently Chairman of Futurelab: Joked that Stephen Heppel and he had have achieved so little in the last 20 years! Not yet a state where what’s best for the child is also what’s best for the child. Left film industry as it had ceased to be inspirational…
During our first 2 weeks blogging in school, the first thing that has dawned on me is that I could possibly be a bit of an internet geek, and that despite their capabilities with ICT, our students, and indeed colleagues, aren’t quite as clued up about the web as some of us. In fact, that’s…
Visual.ly Infographics Visual.ly is at present a nice collection of infographics, those big data visualisations that are making statistics cool again. They can be a great source of information and discussion for the classroom (and also a great source of revenue / traffic for their creators). What’s more exciting is the promise that you’ll soon be…
Bio Sugata Mitra is currently Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University. He has spent many years in a huge number of research posts. With regards to education he is most famous for his Hole In The Wall Experiment whereby he put an Internet enabled PC in…
This Thursday I have an interview for the post of Director of E-Learning at a local High School. Inspired by Doug Belshaw’s recent interview/blog/twitter success, (congratulations again Doug!) I would appreciate my personal learning network’s help! I have to present for 10 mins and also teach for 30. My presentation is on “Your Vision for…