The Guardian has listed its predictions for the 100 top sites for the year ahead: . There are some sites that are new to me in there (such as loopt & walkit [hope they start to expand to other cities]) – however, I’m surprised at how few Google based tools are in there (e.g. Bloglines…
Year: 2008
Lego Mindstorms NXT for the XO Laptop
Lego Mindstorms NXT for the XO Laptop That could be interesting … will be keen to hear how people get on. An earlier post also covered the start of the Pacific project – which, from a personal point of view, interests me….
Just updated to WordPress 2.7
So far, so good. I had to update a couple of plugins, but so far, it all seems to work….
Bye, Bye, N-85 :(
I’ve now had an N85 for a fortnight’s trial, thanks to Womworld. So, my overall thoughts. I’d orginally wanted it to see how well our eLearning tools work on it. Unfortunately, the VLE wasn’t that easy to navigate using it. It’s very much designed for a large screen (and uses frames), so perhaps expecting it…
Ning: The Marmite of Social Networks.
You love it or loathe it. I’ve recently read several posts singing the praises of Ning. I’ve had an account on it for quite some time & I’ve yet to learn to love it in the way that some do. It does have some very good points – quite a lot in fact: It’s very…
UPSU.net
Last week, Terry King & I went to the “International Elgg Conference” at Brighton University. Some of you are, no doubt, sick of me “banging on” about Elgg, (I see it’s recently won the InfoWorld “Best Open Source Social Networking” software recently) Other Universities (e.g. Brighton, Westminster [theirs is closed, so the link is to…
EdCOM – ExPERT Centre
I took the EdCOM students to the ExPERT centre – to see an alternative interface when it comes to computer based learning. [piclens-lite-link]…
Happy 40th Birthday, mouse.
On 9th Dec 1968 Doug Engelbart demonstrated what was to become a mouse. Now, as I look round my desk, I have: A kitkat mouse (ball) Trackerball (which I prefer) Wacom tablet & wireless mouse (all 3 of these are connected to my PC) Tablet – trackpad & pointer – fingers also work (it generally…
N 85 – GPS
Managed to locate myself nicely on the map yesterday – it wasn’t so sure when we were walking & well away from any roads, but seemed fine when we were near roads….