BBC NEWS | Technology | Google charges for web programs Hmmm… we’re currently using Google Docs for a number of joint projects; I use Gmail – I wonder if they will ultimately maintain the free versions. This does raise the whole question of a business model. The free versions are ad-supported; many, like me, use…
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"Banning" Wikipedia.
The Guardian has an article about the fact that the History Department at Middlebury have “banned” wikipedia. Cyberspace reacted as one might expect, with a full range of views. InsideHigherEd’s report is worth reading, as they stress, (as does the Guardian), that the real objection comes when students see wikipedia as the sole source of…
Periodic table of visualization methods
Visual Literacy have developed a “periodic table” of visualisation methods. I’m not entirely sure if there’s the same sort of linking down the columns as there is in the “real” periodic table. In some cases I could see links, but in others I wasn’t so sure. Via: Scott Mcleod., who comments yet another example of…
Top 100 Education Blogs | OEDb
Top 100 Education Blogs | OEDb – Not wanting to come back to work after a great holiday – it was really good to find this in my in box 🙂 Hmm….. Guess I should stop taking things on face value. Oh well. Back to reality….
The Edublog Awards
Voting for this year’s Edublog Awards has now been opened. You have until Sat Dec 16th to make a choice….
LiveLOOK
I’ve just been testing LiveLOOK – a Java based screen sharing application. You can’t control the other person’s screen, but you can see it; also, unlike NetMeeting, when specify the applications that you are sharing, this does as it says, shares the screen. I’m using Firefox Portable on this PC at the moment, which has…
Google Earth
I was watching the ITN news last night, and noticed that they used Google Earth to highlight the different areas of London that Litvinenko had visited. (Unfortunately they’d not got a saved version of the report on their website.)…
Science Photo Library – 25 years on.
Science Photo Library has been around for 25 years. I read about it, and saw some examples, in the Observer at the weekend. They have an amazing collection of photos -well worth having a look at….
mySociety
mySociety I’ve had the this bookmarked for a while, just keep not quite getting round to blogging it. mySociety was set up to help communities etc., get good web ideas off the ground. The list of sites that have already been developed include Pledge Bank and They Work for you. The Winner of the most…
Tags
Just testing using tags – to see if Elgg can import the tags, rather than just the post….