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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Plagiarism the movie

A great learning resource from the University of Bergen. I’ll definately be adding this to my project briefings. The video is in Norwegian, so you might want to watch it at YouTube where you can see the subtitles in English. It also raises the bar on what a learning resource…

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What motivates students?

So, what motivates people at work is challenge, mastery and making a contribution. Is that the same for students? Is it a better incentive than grade inflation? Will we get better students if we challenge them more, help them to be excellent according to their abilities and enable them to…

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Hosted Drupal Sites for Social Networks

Drupal is an open source CMS framework that can and has been used to build all kinds of web sites (including Obama’s www.whitehouse.gov). It can also be used to build educational sites with elements of social networking (see Drupal in Education and Bill Fitzgerald’s book Drupal for Education and e-Learning,…

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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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A phoenix rising from the ashes….

Those of you who have been losing sleep over the withdrawal of free-Ning and its likely impact on the HEFCw funded enhancement project “A Peer Support Network” need worry no longer. The pilot social network EG-353 Research Project has been re-born, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, as a…

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Treasure this…

“A nation’s treasure is in its scholars” – Chinese proverb. In an idle moment, I took the time to scroll through all the blog postings in the Learning lab community blog. I didn’t count them, but apparently there are 155 golden nuggets published since July 2007 by the small (but…

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Alternatives to Ning

A brief survey of alternatives to Ning with comments. Please feel free to extend the list. Cloud Hosted The following were recommended by JP in a discussion “The Best, Most Reliable and Trusted Freemium Social Network Alternatives.” on the Ning Creators community site. I haven’t tried any of them. Ning…

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