Scott Mcleod writes about a school Principal who isn’t able to access a blogging project because the network administrator has stopped it; meanwhile John Connell posts about other problems with administrators banning some services. He’s got a great cartoon! He’s also got information on the JISC project that allows Wireless users to authenticate with their…
VideoLectures and TeacherTube – both have pretty descriptive titles! TeacherTube is very much modelled on YouTube – it looks very much like it, it’s got the same ability to create playlists & have favourites etc (a feature that I miss in Google Video) From the site, though there isn’t any indication that they are linked….
Watchdog tells BBC to drop learning website. The Times has a report that the BBC have decided to suspend the BBC Jam site. It was only launched a year ago, and, if the queues round the BBC Jam stall at BETT were anything to go by, it’s popular. The home page now has information about…
International Journal of Education and Development using ICT: Vol. 2, No. 4 2006. Has some useful looking articles – there is one about WebCT use in Oman, and another which seems good about the use of CAA for diagnostic testing in Science in schools in South Africa, though the actual data was gathered in 1998 &…
I was trying to find the URL for “Hot Potatoes” this morning, and thought that it was from UBC, so, I searched for Hot Pototoes UBC – and found a link to the actual site on a page of the UBCWiki. It was worth going to that site though, as ConceptTutor seems to be a…
The Webcast Academy seems to be a site for educational webcasters. They have a range of information – both “how tos” and recorded webcasts. ONe thing that I found a little frustrating – after registering yet again for yet another site, is that it’s Drupal powered; now, I know that I’ve registered with assorted other…
Doug Belshaw has got a long post, but one well worth reading, looking at the current state of technology in education. The point that he brings out throughout is that technology isn’t the answer to all ills in classrooms – that teachers have to not only know how to use it, but how to integrate…
Google Earth has just been updated to version 4 … one really fun thing is the inclusion of historical maps – which they don’t mention on the home page. Luckily Ben Werdmuller has blogged about it – and they’re fun. OK, so perhaps not quite as much detail as the current maps – as 18th…
eFoundations: The importance of being open I have just found this blog – Andy Powell is discussing some of the JISC tools (in particular JORUM and JISC IE), and comparing them to freely available tools (such as SlideShare, Flickr etc). He makes some good points, both about the “Reinventing the Wheel” syndrome, as well as…
Towards a String’n’Glue Learning Environment I rather like this – it’s simple -and, if you have a look at the example page, it seems quite easy to build up your own. It’s where having HTML skills comes in useful – there isn’t a tool (yet) to let you build it up – you have to…