EduBlog Insights » Blog Archive » Locked in on reflection My brain keeps locking in on the importance of reflection, but reflection from students mainly. I wish more teachers would use blogs for reflections about learning in our schools A thoughtful post from Anne looking at the need for both students and staff to use…
Blogging IT and EDucation
More teachers getting to grips with ICT, says report
A reasonably positive report, though it was sponsored by Dell… Via Anne Davies…
mySociety
mySociety claim that they build websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. They’ve launched a competition to allow readers to suggest a site; WritetoThem.com was a previous winner….
Wired News: Laptop Detractors Shrugged Off
Wired News: Laptop Detractors Shrugged Off “When you have both Intel and Microsoft on your case, you know you’re doing something right,” Negroponte said, prompting applause from the audience of several hundred open-source software devotees….
Washington Post's left-baiting blogger is fired for plagiarism
Washington Post’s left-baiting blogger is fired for plagiarismDomenech, 24, had only been working for 3 days & made 6 posts, when the “blog for the majority of Americans” was closed, following evidence of his plagiarism in various student newspapers etc….
Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~Blogs, wikis and Podcasts? What if we're all wrong?
With this as a title in one of Steven Downes’ posts, I was interested! He was commenting (vociferously), on an article by Terry Freedman, about a keynote speech given at the Naace Conference – by John Clare. John Clare is an Education journalist for the Daily Telegraph– and is fairly anti technology. So, it was…
Campus wide e-Portfolios
Dave Tosh looks at some of the implications of setting up campus wide ePortfolio systems; specifically by the University of Nebraska. He points out that while they have said that departments and schools can customise their views, the same isn’t possible for students. A few weeks ago – in fact, just about the same time…
Device warns you if you're boring or irritating
New Scientist report on a device that consists of a small camera attached to glasses, and connected to a handheld device. In theory, if the person you are talking to gets bored, the handheld device will vibrate. At present the software identifies actors emotions 90% of the time, & other’s emotions 64%. The article didn’t…
Presentation as Conversation
CogDogBlog suggests when giving a talk … START WITH THE DEMO! do not use 90% of the time for background, rationale, theory, reference, pictures of your kids, yadda yadda, get to the stinkin demo! Show us the demo! It’s something that I would fully agree with ……
BBC.co.uk 2.0 – Revamp of website.
BBC unveils radical revamp of website. The new Website, which includes blogs & home video, aims to focus digital content around 3 main concepts “share”, “Find” and “Play”. It should allow users to have access to more archived material, via “MyBBCPlayer”, which seems to be the iBBC player renamed. I took part in the iBBC…