Jennifer has made some very valid points following the TLt Summit 2008 In particular: It is time to toss out the blog, wiki, podcast mantra. This is bigger than tools isolated for singular purpose. If we keep pushing the tools into categories, new users will continue to only use the tools for those purposes. We…
Blogging IT and EDucation
OLPC – getting to know it.
I’ve been investigating the OLPC quite a bit. I’ve also got back into reading about it. Due to the changes at the top, there’s been a fair bit of news coverage, including an article in the Guardian, which Stephen Downes pointed to. I’ve made comments on Stephen’s post, so won’t repeat those here. Over the…
weblin
I’ve just discovered weblin from Aleks’ links. I’ll be interested to see what use this can be put to. I seem to vaguely remember a feature in IE 6 that let you discuss pages with other users, but I never worked out how to use it. I think that one was asynchronous, where this is…
Facebook, Meet Blackboard
How to put students off Facebook in one easy step? I’ve tried to add it, but I’m told that our administrator has blocked access to it. I’m not quite sure whether I think that’s a good idea, or a bad one. In someways it’s good, as there is the worry that Facebook may use the…
Google and Facebook socialize world+dog
Looks like Facebook is going to stop being quite the blackhole it currently is ……
OLPC getting going
I’m working on the OLPC now. I’ve beenable to get it on line at home, though not at work. it’s got a range of inbuilt activities, the most exciting probably being the acoustic measure, which lets you measure the distance between 2 OLPCs. Shame I’ve not got another to test it with! I’m rapidly coming…
OLPC
I’ve finally got mine! I’ll not post photos – there are enough around; that said, I was expecting the outside to be smooth white, not bumpy….
Slideshare, Tibet, China and DoS attacks
Andy Powell comments on the DOS launched on Slideshare recently, seemingly in relation to presentations about the situation in Tibet. (He also noted how quickly someone from Slideshare emailed him, after he’d twittered about it. This highlights not only the problem of putting material on Slideshare (though the VLE at work has been known to…
WebTools4u2use
WebTools4u2use is a *very* comprehensive wiki listing lots of Web2.0 tools – and ideas of how to use them in education. Via: Dave Warlick…
7 Things You Should Know About Ning
EDUCAUSE CONNECT’s latest 7 things you should know is about Ning. I’ve mentioned Ning in the past, including the fact that I find it frustrating that it requires a lot of logging in. My fear for using it for social networking in Education, is that if you have one network per unit / subject (whatever…