The midden

Mike Wesch’s latest Youtube video, A Portal to Media Literacy, is essential viewing for all educators. He describes so clearly why we have to change and challenge the present system of educating our young people. He is clearly a passionate teacher and someone who understands the world in which his students move.
His dismantling of the [...]

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Dan Costa from PC Mag.com writes an interesting article entitled Don’t Buy an iPhone 3G. Just change AT&T to O² and do the $ to £ conversion and it fits.

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Following close on the heels of MobileMe from Apple, Swedish Startup Cloudo are in the process of developing the next generation of computing access - computers for the mobile generation. Their online computer means that you can access your data (files, photos, music, calendars, workspaces) and collaborate with friends and colleagues from any computer, mobile [...]

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This is a video of my presentation to the JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire & Humber on June 10th at Bradford University. The sub-title of the presentation was Beyond “no significant difference”, on the basis that, in education, we use technology to do things the same way as we have always done rather than [...]

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This book gives a detailed and comprehensive coverage of how digital technologies can be used to transform our present, outdated, industrial model of education. Co-published by BC Campus and the Commonwealth of Learning, it is available as a free download. As we are aware, despite the widespread availability of new technologies, their impact on teaching [...]

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Been getting ready for my workshop at the UCISA User Support Conference tomorrow and thinking about what has changed in the last 12 months that is likely to have a significant impact on how we work and play. I think that one of the most exciting changes will be the appearance of MobileMe from [...]

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Take care.

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This Special Report in the Economist highlights the impact of an increasingly connected world on the way we live, work, communicate and generally spend our days. All those gadgets (mobile phones, laptops, PDAs) that we have been carrying around for years, and which tantalised us with promises of quick and easy access to an [...]

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I’ve chosen Central Desktop to manage our Audio Supported Enhanced Learning Project. Like Backpack, CD is a web-based organisational and team collaboration tool, but is a lot more sophisticated and has many more features. It allows you to create online workspaces to share documents and files, manage task lists and milestones, and engage [...]

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Following on from his previous updates, John Kirriemuir has posted his latest update on the use of SL in the UK HE and FE sectors. It highlights the rapid increase in the number of institutions with a SL presence and describes 9 ways in which it is being used.
The report highlights 3 main issues faced [...]

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