The latest research commissioned by Becta (2007/08) is just coming out and one of the first reports published is on the use of Web 2.0 technologies by learners in Key Stages 3 and 4 (11 to 16 year olds). This is the second in a series of five commissioned reports on Web 2.0 technologies, and [...]
Seth in his latest post talks about old marketing with new tools:
Remember hand-written thank you notes?
Then they became xeroxed form letters.
And then mail-merged form letters.
And then Amazon order confirmations by email.
We tend to use new tools to do less. We try to save time and money at the same time, and end up depersonalizing [...]
Soon to be on my reading list is the new book by Curtis Bonk, who teaches at Indiana University in the School of Education where he is Professor of Instructional Systems Technology. He terms his book, “The World is Open: Now WE-ALL-LEARN with Web Technology”, an education extension to Thomas Friedman’s, “The World is Flat”. [...]
I’m presently reading Clay Shirky’s book, “Here Comes Everybody“, so I was particularly interested in Will’s interview with Clay that was scheduled for yesterday, and actually took place today. Clay’s book is about how people are organising themselves without organisations.
The video is in two parts.
Part One:
Part Two:
Will asks him some pertinent questions particularly about how [...]
Vivaty launched today and takes the concept of 3D worlds into a browser. The problem with 3D worlds like Second Life is that they are proprietary and while some are working on interoperability based on the Open Grid Protocol which would allow users to cross freely from one world to another, ultimately they need to [...]
Thanks to Peter (why no personal blog anymore) for pointing me to Wordle … you could have great fun with this. As Peter says,
Enter any text and it’ll create a ‘cloud’ of your words with more prominence given to those that occur more frequently. It gives a useful view of the ‘big picture’ of a [...]
Bill Gates back in January 1996 wrote an article entitled “Content is King” which perhaps summarised the world of Web 1.0:
Content is where I expect much of the real money will be made on the Internet… If people are to be expected to put up with turning on a computer to read a screen, they [...]
It’s interesting reading Ian’s latest post in which he highlights NineHub where you can get a fully functioning Moodle for free in a blink of an eye. My view of the history of education has always been of subversion. Centrally imposed edicts and initiatives have often fallen on stony ground when it comes to implementation [...]
I’ve just started reading, Clay Shirky’s new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations (Allen Lane, February 28, 2008). As I’m only on chapter one at the moment, I’m not in a position to reflect on it in depth in this post, but I noticed that Professor Shirky has recently been [...]
It’s not often that I’m asked to come along to a school at 4.00 on a Friday afternoon, but last week I called in for a chat at Attleborough High School. Attleborough High are doing great things with their Virtual Learning Environment. In one year not only have all the students been keen as mustard [...]
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