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• Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job | Deep Tech - CNET News
  interesting take on the iPhone and Android, by someone who nails it.

http://advisorymatters.naaceblogs.org/2010/03/15/ipad-and-education-old-trick

With the launch of the iPad real soon now, a number of main-stream education suppliers are gearing up to provide educational resources for the new machine. Penguin, who now hold the rights to so many of the titles that saw the the boom time of CD ROM, are just one publisher re-purposing content for the iPad. Here’s a video of some of their titles being presented.

There are a number of things that perhaps are interesting in this presentation. Firstly, the applications clearly use some of the iPad features, such as shaking, or the GPS to compare the night sky with the DK resource. It would have been so easy to ignore aspects of the technology built into the iPad. Secondly, it’s interesting to note that education resources, particularly primary content resources, have been few and far between for Windows-based tablets. This might suggest that developers have only seen potential in the iPad’s technology that they have not seen in previous tablets. Thirdly, I wonder if the iPad will effectively slow or even challenge, the move to Web 2.0 and VLE technology in primary schools. One can see the scenario … schools used to buying bespoke software based resources such as CD ROM (indeed many are still buying in this format) might well stick with something familiar with enhanced features? Or is it too late?

(Does anyone know if there’s to be a “Grandma and Me” version?)

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• jDigiClock - Digital Clock (HTC Hero inspired).

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• Google - public data

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• Interactive map of data privacy


• Back to the Future: The BBC is still dead | Mssv
  awesome analyis of the BBC's attitude to online...

http://advisorymatters.naaceblogs.org/2010/03/05/alex-ferguson-uses-an-ipod-t

I had the privilege of facilitating on one of Becta’s Parental Engagement briefings this week for Primary schools. Despite being a long way from home, I’d volunteered to help with the Manchester briefing since I was in the area doing some work with schools. Held in the Manchester United conference facilities, I turned up early to have a look around. Now I’m not really a great football fan, but the opportunity arose so I thought, “why not take your afternoon off doing the stadium tour. At least you can say you’ve done it.” So that’s what I did.

I’m still unsure whether I really enjoyed the tour or not, but one thing that struck me was the distinct lack of cutting-edge technology, the only concession I could find was the iPod dock below the central plasma screen in the home dressing room (picture above). Who knows whether it’s used to play soothing or inspiring music to the team before battle commences, or it show clips of their opponent’s moves? Given the sparse nature of the display equipment I pondered what Alex Ferguson keeps on his iPod and might use this dock for. For example, does he prepare podcasts for the players to listen to on the coach? I’ll probably never know …

The highlight of the briefing was Professor Charles Deforges 20 minute talk on the impact on parental involvement on pupil achievement. He’s the statistican that produced the literature review of research back in 2003 for the DES that proves that affecting parenting is by far the most effective way of raising achievement and change the prospects of disadvantaged young people. He produced some stunning statistics. For example, students with good parenting skills and attitudes have a 26 percentile point advantage of getting five ‘c’ passes at GCSE. This was little to do with wealth or success of parents. Indeed, having both parents educated to degree level provides only three percentile points. As he pointed out, tackling poor-performing schools can only take you so far, to really affect social justice, giving parents parenting skills and strategies is the only way forward.

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• Clifford Stoll: Why Web Won't Be Nirvana - Newsweek.com
  interesting article from 1995 on why the internet wouldn't revolutionalise the world. Many points still valid...


• WORDLE Trademark by Koeff, Mark Jordan | USPTO Registration Search: 75300387
  original trademark information for Wordle

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• Jennifer Purych shows innovative uses of Moodle Quizzes for Basic Medical Terminology « CID Spotlight


• How to create Short-Answer questions with embedded audio in Moodle « Did you know?…

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• Jobs Damns Flash
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• Please Rob Me
  Simple mashup (barely a mashup, actually) which illustrates how Foursquare and other tools could be used to facilitate... all sorts of stuff


• Phone Call Tracking