iPad, schmipdad

Surely you want one of these? It looks as though it’s based on an idea for the XO-2 from the One Laptop per Child XO project It has USB, SD, Flash…..

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The future……..

I was put on to this my Erasmus colleagues at IFA in Poznan. A vision of the future where “video games have become indistinguishable from reality.” An interesting or nightmarish scenario? A point and click multiple choice, e-learning, technology enhanced and supported, virtual reality world? As one character/player/avatar asks”What are…

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Bye bye BECTA…….. who's next?

So BECTA is one of the first victims of the government’s spending cuts. Could it be the start of greater scrutiny of education IT projects? Will there be others to follow? As Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent for the BBC notes, BECTA “has been criticized for being captured by technology suppliers…

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Winkball Video wall

I saw this on Click. Winkball is a video sharing site where you can record video messages, sending video messages, create your own video blog, make video walls and have multi-user video chats. The video walls can be both public and private. Useful for modules? I’ve set one up with…

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