Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Meta Data in Music and everything else

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3D Data from Decibel on Vimeo . I am not sure how this arrived on my desktop this morning - but it is a great example of how metadata c...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Scottish Parliament Dissolution

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The Scottish Parliament election takes place on 5th May 2011, and the formal election period begins on 23 March following dissolution of Par...
Monday, February 28, 2011

The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World's Most Surprising School System

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As hype continues around Finland's amazing educational achievemennts cynic in me suspects that we might be about to get 5 years of Finn...
Friday, February 11, 2011

New Improved ScotEdublogs

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John Johnstone   and   Robert Jones   have once again been  updating the platform that Scotedublogs sits on .They are stars and I was gla...

I Digress Digress.it

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What is digress.it and why use it? from University of Lincoln on Vimeo . I was enjoying looking around the excellent http://jiscpress.o...
Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Open but Tough

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Open but Tough from Commonwealth of Learning on Vimeo . Here are some very sage words from Sir John Daniels on open education and on a...

1964 JOHNNY SEVEN OMA TOY GUN COMMERCIAL

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Amused friend's kids have finished with antique toy we passed on when we cleared family home and wonders if I want it back. Not sure t...
Monday, February 07, 2011

Future of Mobile Learning

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Near and far contemplating (nfc) View more presentations from andyjb . Here is a great presentation from Andy Black on what is just aroun...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Rethinking Education

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Guessing I'll see this a lot of times over next few months. But real question is how are we are using these changes to shift education ...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Scottish Twits Education Weekly

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To track my own interests across Scottish Education I get a newspaper format report delivered each Monday morning. The report self publishe...
Monday, January 17, 2011

A week and a headfull #LWF11 #EWF11 #ELB2011 #BETT2011

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It is really useful to start the year immersed in ideas and that is often what happens around the BETT Conference in January. Here are some ...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

#bett11 First Impressions

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I've been really lucky and very privileged to attend BETT the British Educatonal Technology Show  for last 12 years either in my current...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

#lwf11 Learning Without Frontiers

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Lord Putnam and Jimmy Wales founder of Wikipedia debate in final session at Learning Without Frontiers. I had a productive two days at Lea...
Sunday, January 09, 2011

Post 2011

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It is the time of the year to make a prediction or two. This year I think more than any other you can feel and see the growth of services li...
Sunday, January 02, 2011

Happy New Year

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I did a bit of a spring clean around this blog including moving over to a new template. One day I'll spend some more time and set up a w...
Friday, November 19, 2010

New and Emerging Learning Technologies

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In education too often the wave is over our heads before we realise. We really don't have any excuse now - here is a superb presentation...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Maths and more Game Apps on iStore

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Lots of meetings in last few weeks and playing catch up. I spent some time with Euan Mackenzie the CEO of  3MRT ltd who was pleased to let m...
Thursday, November 04, 2010

Save on Travel Desk Top Webconference

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Just did one of those quick and dirty surveys of what staff are using to communicate with range of stakeholders across UK - worth sharing as...
Monday, October 25, 2010

The Best of EdTech Web 2010 #ediff

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Resources like these are arriving every day and they can change education as we know it.. thought this was a great set of new tools.. Bes...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Useful Perhaps Observation from Across the Water #ediff

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Thought this graphic gives nice picture of how a larger economy is struggling with #ediff challenges. Useful graphic from http://www.onli...