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Saturday, October 11, 2008 7:15 PM

Becta Web 2.0 Research Report

Web 2.0 technologies for learning at KS3 and KS4 Becta commissioned the University of Nottingham in conjunction with London Knowledge Lab and Manchester Metropolitan University to research Web 2.0 technologies for learning at Key Stages 3 and 4. The purpose...
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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, September 09, 2008 8:44 AM

14- 19, keeping track when students move around!

A continuing trend in education is the need to support 14 - 19 choice, and to achieve this schools join consortia to improve the range of courses on offer. This presents two problems: How do you move them around? How do you know where the student is?...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 4:22 PM

XO2 - A new format for the sub $100 notebook

The $100 dollar laptop project has moved on with a new look and format, and is now planned to be $75! The new device created by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project opens like a book and has a new price of $75. It's not aimed to replace the original...
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 7:23 AM

Behind the Screen

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published one of the most informative insights into the online world of children and young people. Take time to read it. Behind the Screen: The hidden life of youth online A headline summary of the report...
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Friday, February 22, 2008 12:26 PM

Booms and Swingers? ... Projecting the right image!

An interesting observation was made on a recent school visit. A school in Kent has installed a new i-whiteboard and projector combination. Due of the height of the ceiling and the need to ensure the board height can be adjusted to meet the needs of childrens...
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:43 PM

New Line Learning Academy + Samsung Q1 = 1:1?

Saw this interesting video produced by LANWAY in partnership with the New Line Learning Academies in Maidstone. The video is clearly a commercial for both the devices and the partner company, but this is exactly the sort of partnership that adds value...
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Saturday, February 02, 2008 8:11 AM

Struggling with technology?

According to a Teacher Voice Omnibus Survey report published by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) , a third of teachers struggle to use the technology schools are equipped with and want more support and training. Since the survey...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:44 PM

Technophobe Teachers?

The following is an opinion from Andrew Pinder , Chair of Becta in an extract from an article in the Times 7Jan 2008 : "State schools spent £1 billion on cutting-edge information technology last year but 80 per cent of them are failing to make full use...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:48 PM

Comment on 'Innovation Blog' Post on Microsoft Open XML Formats

I have experienced the problem mentioned in Jamies post of receiving an MS Office 2007 document in the new *.docx format. I know about Microsoft's Open XML format , which enables developers to create applications that use the Microsoft file format, but...
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Friday, January 04, 2008 12:29 PM

Intel pulls out of One Laptop Per Child Project.

It would seem that a 'philisophical difference' between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project has ended in divorce. It was well known that whilst Intel was on the board of the OLPC project, it was also touting its own solution, the Classmate...
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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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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:57 PM

Minor handheld skirmish in Nigeria?

Two competing initiatives aimed at providing cheap computers to children in emerging economies appear to be slugging it out over the same turf. Abuja in Nigeria is where the action is ... apparently! The interesting thing is that two competing projects...
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Sunday, November 25, 2007 6:58 PM

Track and Field?

Two related press articles concerning the tracking of children recently caught my eye. The first in the Guardian (23rd Oct 2007) covered the launch by Blade Runner UK of a GPS Tracker Jacket. This little technical gem tracks your child on Google Earth...
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Friday, November 16, 2007 7:12 PM

You're 'virtually' nicked!

This story cracked me up. Police arrested one 17 year old Dutch teenager and questioned five others for stealing virtual furniture from a room in Habbo Hotel . For those who don't know, Habbo Hotel is a 3D social networking site aimed at children. The...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:24 PM

i-whiteboards - the benefits are clear?

Following outstanding claims for the effectiveness of interactive whiteboards in a recent Becta research report and highlighted by my colleagues on their Blog , I read the full report . Its very thorough, and offers some interesting conclusions if you...
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Friday, October 12, 2007 11:40 AM

Politics similar to education? Surely Not?

David Cameron’s speech at the Google Zeitgeist Conference in San Francisco offered interesting parallels with education. In it he suggests that the impact of technology is that politicians need to “... let go of power”, and speaks of a people taking more...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:47 AM

Personalised Online Learning Space = Kent Learning Zone!

Schools may have recently received an email from Becta on their Oct 2007 ICT Advice Alert . The states the Government target that all schools should have a 'personalised online learning space' by August 2008. The alert also suggests that schools contact...
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Saturday, October 06, 2007 10:14 PM

Fingerprints in exchange for food? lighten up!

Morley High School in Leeds have been accused of breaching the Education Act 2002 for their stand on 'fingerprints for food' school meals. The Headteacher told BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme that "We have given parents an opt out. The opt out is...
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Saturday, October 06, 2007 9:38 PM

Kent ... to get the fastest broadband in the UK!

Virgin Media cable customers in Folkestone have been trialing 50Mb home broadband ... the fastest in the UK! Ashford have started a trial that will last until the end of December, with Dover dates to be confirmed. The eventual cost of the service will...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:43 PM

i-Whiteboard's ... so passe - Welcome Multi-Touch!

Multi-Touch is going mainstream. Not sure how many of you have seen Jeff Han's demo from the TED conference at Monterey in California, but its worth a look to see the technology in use. Apple also demonstrated the technology in a smaller form with what...
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