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Sunday, October 03, 2010 3:12 PM

Creating newspapers from your RSS feeds?

I must admit I was disappointed at the demise of Bloglines , the RSS feed reader I first cut my teeth on at an Alan November conference. It was something of a revelation and is fundamental to many of the Internets new tools. Rather reluctantly I've...
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Friday, December 18, 2009 8:35 PM

British Pathé? Great ... but can you get it to work?

After reading the ' Pathe Returns ' blog post by a colleague, you may have tried to find out more whilst sat at your home computer and wondered why it doesn't seem to work. Well, British Pathe is a commercial organisation that (quite rightly...
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Saturday, October 11, 2008 6:40 PM

Stuff that's caught my eye! - 111008

Schools Radio Network Schools are invited to register now with the Schools Radio Network – a new initiative - and give their students a national voice. SchoolsRadio.com encourages students up to age 18 to create and share their own audio programmes with...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 7:41 PM

Science Content - The Periodic Table of Videos

The Periodic Table of Video's is a modern version of the periodic table. Each element has an associated video explaining what it is and how it reacts. Great resource, but shame they chose YouTube ... the videos are blocked by most school filters ...
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Saturday, July 19, 2008 7:13 PM

If you read just one book ...

Last week Jerry, a colleague handed me a short book, What's Next: 21 Ideas for 21st Century Learning by Charles Leadbeater , and published by the Innovation Unit . Jerry was emphatic as he placed it on my desk ... "This says what I believe ....
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Friday, June 13, 2008 8:19 PM

Shine - talent in all young people!

Shine is a national celebration of all talent in all young people providing creative ways to celebrate and showcase students' achievements during Shine week from 30 June to 4 July. Shine is the place for teachers to show off too. Do you have a hidden...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:59 PM

Exploratree - tools for thinking! ... FREE!

One of the highlights of a recent visit to Cramlington Community High School (In Northumberland, ... not Newcastle. Thanks Ray for the correction to my previous post) was the early preview of Learning 2 Learn software. One of the most impressive features...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:39 PM

Adventure Rock's the CBBC!

Thanks to the NAACE newsletter for highlighting a great (and safe) interactive virtual island " Adventure Rock " aimed at 6 - 11 year olds. The game requires a download, and allows children to explore and discover on a virtual island. There...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:27 PM

Fab Photo's of Kent

I don't normally advertis, but as a bit of an amatuer photographer myself, the pictures of Kent on Steve Keat's Flickr photstream are just stunning! Check them out HERE ! (Photoshop??)
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Saturday, February 02, 2008 8:00 AM

'Repurpose, Create and Share' - call for Bids

Are you using and sharing digital resources for learning and teaching? Becta and the National Education Network invite English schools to join a programme to: exploit online digital resources create new materials to support learning and teaching for secondary...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:52 PM

Shibboleth and Athens - descending into middle earth?

This is a post for the purists! Shibboleth is the open standard for identity and access management. It promioses Single Sign-On to resources, and data security. If you want to know how it works, CLICK HERE . Athens on the other hand is the old system...
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Saturday, December 08, 2007 11:24 AM

Podcasting - quick wins for quality

I've been really getting into podcasting and also into adding audio to slidehare and voicethread shows. The latter are two excellent online presentation tools that allow the user to quickly narrate and publish PowerPoints and create stories based around...
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Saturday, December 08, 2007 9:12 AM

Filtering? 'Control and Constraint' or 'Freedom and Fun'?

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales recently added to a long standing debate about the value of Wikipedia for research. Speaking at the recent Online Information Conference at Olympia, Jimmy is reported as stating that teachers who refuse access to wikipedia...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:58 PM

Common i-Whiteboard Format

Becta have appointed RM to develop an interoperable standard for i-whiteboard content formats following a tender process. This aims to solve the issue of resources being locked into particular brands of whiteboard. The consultation has just started, and...
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Sunday, September 30, 2007 8:23 AM

e-Portfolio Research Report

Becta have released their " Impact study of e-portfolio's on learning " conducted by a team of researchers from University of Nottingham led by Helen Barrett . The study provides eight case studies from across education, from primary to adult learning...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 9:18 PM

BBC suspends BBC Jam!

I gave an early 'heads-up' of this story back in january! Interesting because I indirectly received cries of 'you've got it all wrong' by email following my post . Well, BBC Jam is now officially suspended, and this has sparked a lot of blog debate and...
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Friday, February 16, 2007 1:32 PM

Free Films for School Movie Clubs

Thousands of films are to be made available to schools to inspire children about the stories they tell and careers in the movie industry. A website database will eventually hold up to 60,000 films that teachers and pupils can access for free. The initiative...
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Sunday, January 21, 2007 10:42 PM

BBC 'Jam'med!

Interesting to see that the BBC JAM (ex Digital Curriculum) has been halted . The issue of how well it was meeting its approval was brought forward last year by the Content Advisory Board but largely ignored by Ministers until recently. Not surprisingly...
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