I blogged about Gizmo a while ago. Since then I’d more or less forgotten about it, until I read about it recently, when the discussions had come up in Elgg about the difficulties of using Spype in UAE. It would seem from this post in the Gizmo forums that it is allowed there, however, I’m…

A 16 Year Old Blogger

Christian Long has a series of posts (this is the fifth so far) about some interactions with a 16 year old who found his blog. Well worth reading. (I’ve now decided that my “Digital Divide” category should include age as well as the other aspects of a divide!)…

Science GCSE with online exams

Science GCSE with online exams Last week the QCA reported  that GCSE coursework was going to be curtailed to stop students using the Internet inappropriately, though Science isn’t mentioned explicitly. There could, however, be good reasons for having all the students in this new course doing their course work in “controlled conditions” – as that…

Global Text Project brings wiki textbooks to the world

Global Text Project brings wiki textbooks to the world An interesting idea; it’s arisen from an XML book that was developed as a wiki, when a class hadn’t got a book covering what was needed. In terms of content management, pages are locked, so that though edits can be made, they aren’t live until they’ve…