This year you can track Santa’s journey across the world by using Google Maps or Google Earth with the help of NORAD. He will pass 24 “Santa cams” around the world, providing live video feeds of his progress, which will in turn be put onto Norad’s YouTube channel as they happen. NORAD have been tracking [...]
I’m a relatively recent convert to Twitter, but Ben Walkers‘ song “You’re No One if You’re not on Twitter” sums up the growth of social networking and the internet. The song has, as he says, ” … elbowed a few more people into my corner of the room.”
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We all know that the philosophy and concepts behind Web 2.0 are here to stay (for a little while anyway), but can educators rely on their favourite online tools being around that long? Doing a trawl through, it would seem that the ‘beta’ Web 2.0 app, is really that. Users can be left high and [...]
Cloud computing is seen as the next step for ICT, where the computer, or should I say laptop, becomes a terminal on the internet and all functional applications and your files reside on an internet server somewhere. Apart from a natural progression from locally based storage, the big shift of course is towards collaboration that [...]
In the long tradition of the geoglyph like the Nazca Lines in Peru or the Cerne Abbas giant, moblog.net has begun an interesting project to create a geoglyph that will span Britain. Their mission is to create the world’s largest work of art by using one thing we all have, a mobile phone. Britglyph relies [...]
The last week has been interesting when in comes Shirky’s notion of self-forming groups and the power of Web 2.0 and social networking. In Clay Shirky’s book, “Here Comes Eveybody“, he explores the the significant role being played by technological advances on the formation and experience of modern group dynamics. Over the weeks, John [...]
I’m drawn to Tom’s post about his latest gadget, the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen and have added one to my Christmas present list. Indeed not just for me, but I can see how useful this might be for so many people I know. If you take notes at meetings, in lectures as a student, or just [...]
Back almost two decades ago the first data projectors were huge and very expensive. The preserve of university halls and corporate board rooms. When colour came along, these CRT monsters sported three lenses, one for each colour and were not designed to be portable at all. Barco (Belgium American Radio Corporation) were the leaders in [...]
Crime stories involving virtual worlds continue to bring the virtual and real worlds closer together. In Japan a woman was arrested for allegedly killing her virtual husband in the online game Maple Story. The teacher is on remand facing charges of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating data. If convicted, she faces up to [...]
With the news of UK Government money going into providing home access to all learners aged 9 to 19 homes by 2011, comes a reviewed EU report which calls for universal access to broadband by 2010. Currently, the EC’s Universal Service Obligations (USO) demand that all citizens who want them should be able to get [...]
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