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Ultimate Attendee or Ultimate Conference?

  • Feb 29th, 2008
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  • blogs and blogging, blogs in education
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    • Will’s latest post asks the question, “what future conference organizer is gonna get smart and only allow attendees who …” (engage with Web 2.0 technologies) ? An interesting question for me with only four days to go to the Naace Strategic Conference.
    Since 2006 I’ve take on the task of integrating web 2.0 technologies into Naace [...]

    Not quite what I was planning

  • Feb 10th, 2008
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  • technology application
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    • You might have heard the short piece last week on the Today programme (Radio 4), which was published last week. Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response?
    “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
    Smith magazine, in conjunction with Twitter asked readers [...]

    Better than Free, or why organisations like Naace are still relevant

  • Feb 8th, 2008
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  • ICT and education
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    • If you read this blog regularly, you’ll know that this year I’m Chair of Naace, the association for educational professionals here in the UK that are interested passionate about advancing education through ICT. Like every society or organisation of like minded people, its traditional way of maintaining and recruiting members has been to offer [...]

    Why I still dislike Microsoft Office

  • Feb 6th, 2008
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    • Last week, I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2008, and have been disgruntled ever since. Having bought a MacBook Pro almost immediately after they came out (two years ago) I was reassured by the Microsoft spokeswoman at the launch (Jan 10th 2006 - video on the internet, but can’t find it now) who said that [...]

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