Silktide: Sitescore Results I found Silktide via a link in the WordPress support forum. It’s not an accessibility tester that I’ve used before, so was interested to see how this blog scored. It seems that the scores are out of 10, and so I think that I’m doing quite well. I’d love to know though…
Blogging IT and EDucation
Reflections
Anne Davies writes about getting students to reflect – and the fact that it’s hard to get pupils to start to reflect; that they aren’t used to thinking about what they are learning. Our journey of learning is so rarely discussed. Thats one of the marvels of blogging for me. People are doing that and…
MySpace is like so totally over
The Observer reports on Faceparty – which Teenagers seem to be moving to, away from MySpace. Britain’s teenagers have a secret. The money spent by media companies buying up well-known internet chatrooms such as Friends Reunited and MySpace has missed the target. New figures show that the busiest community website is the unheralded Faceparty. Given…
The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Accessible Multimedia for e-learning
Skills for Access : The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Accessible Multimedia for e-learning I was looking for some information for a MSc student – and have just come across this site, which seems to have lots of useful resources – re. Multimedia learning and accessibility!…
Why Phishing works.
A recent study (Rachna Dhamija, J. D. Tygar and Marti Hearst) has shown how frequently people were fooled into thinking that sites were legitimate, where in fact they were spoofs. Research had previously indicated that upto 5% of webusers have at some point given details to “phishing” sites. This particular study used 22 volunteers and…
Official Google Blog Deleted
Searchenginewatch report on the lapse that lead to the Google blog disappearing for a brief period, when someone accidentally deleted it! Another blogger, on trying to read it, got a 404 page error, so tried to register the same name – and got it! He had it for a few hours – there’s a screen…
Group work benefits pupils, study finds
A study by the Institute of Education into group work & pupils aged 5-14 has found that they can make rapid progress. While many teachers found it hard not to intervene when tempers initially flared, after time the children were working well & making progress….
Video games tackle 'lazy eye'
BBC NEWS | Technology | Video games tackle ‘lazy eye’ I was one of those childnre who had to have a pair of patched glasses to attempt to cure a lazy eye … I think it’s still a bit on the idle side at times….
Collaboration Tools & trust.
Lilia Efimova has expanded on Martin Dugage’s diagram summarising collaboration tools & trust. I think that I agree with her that IM tools are in a rather different category to say discussion boards, in the same way that what you’d say to someone in a 1:1 situation is often different to what you’d say to…
David Milibrand
Even politicians are blogging. David Milibrand has become the UK’s first (official) blogging Minister. Wonder how it will develop….