Twitter has got an awful lot of press lately. The conversation between Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross on the latter’s return to the BBC on Friday Night might have sparked it, but there were rumblings before. This weekend the Telegraph devoted two broadsheet pages to the micro-blogging site, having already published Twitter’s top 30 (a [...]
Online safety is a developing theme with lots of educational resources becoming increasingly available, but there are few resources for teachers to enable them to understand the psychology of cyberspace. Part of the craft of the teacher though is knowing enough about how humans react to a given environment so that they can teach their [...]
I’m slightly disappointed that the FLOSSIE 09 conference has been postponed. I’d been invited to speak this year and was really looking forward to it, but particularly because I intended to use the opportunity to cristalise my thoughts on how traditional associations are challenged and need to change in today’s world. Indeed, I’d begun to [...]
I was reminded of that old Polaroid camera gathering dust on a shelf when my daughter asked whether I could bring it when I next visited. Apparently, digital cameras don’t cut it when preparing for your drama studies devising class. The Polaroid camera was an icon in the pre-digital age, but some say the [...]
As far as I know, this device was not at BETT last week (but then there seems little information about it anyway), but having just turned an old Quicksilver G4 Mac into a media device attached to my LCD TV, I’m drooling at this one.
Asus seem to have produced a PC built into a keyboard. [...]
I’m getting through Born Digital rather slowly as work kicks in this week, and have just read the chapter on privacy. In this chapter Palfrey and Gasser comment on parents, “unwittingly creating problems for their children who are born digital. … A latch-key kid who carries a cell phone with an RFID chip in it [...]
Comparison websites is a competitive business, and their television advertisements have taken an interesting twist recently. Confused.com’s latest advert concentrates on the features of their new website and has adopted ‘YouTube-like’ talking heads to provide referral. However, my favourite is comparethemarket.com’s latest campaign, based on the notion of mis-typing URLs. The advert and spoof website [...]
A two year old with her Christmas present?
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In my last post I speculated on the dichotomy between ‘old world’ publishing via traditional means such as the book, and ‘new world’ media of web-based publishing and collaboration, and the way in which this has been this has been characterised by the native/immigrant metaphor. Despite researchers and educators reflecting on [...]
I often need a break from work to get going with a new book and therefore Christmas is a good time to put the titles I want to get round to reading on my present list. One received this time was Born Digital, Understanding The First Generation of Digital Natives, which was published at the [...]
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