John Pugh MP has tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons entitled Software in Education, number 179. “That this House congratulates the Open University and other schools, colleges and universities for utilising free and open source software to deliver cost-effective educational benefit not just for their own
We spent a lovely long weekend in Dublin 4-6 November 2006. Recommendations if you ever visit there: Hotel: Trinity Capital – situated very centrally indeed, near Trinity College (but above a fire station) Pubs:The Duke, Duke Street Bailey’s, Duke StreetDavy Byrne’s, Duke StreetThe Halfpenny Inn, Temple BarO’Neill’s, opposite Tourist Information
Learning is most effective when time is taken to think through the process and impact of experiences and to attempt to make sense of thoughts, feelings and reactions. Such reflection can enable the learner to identify patterns, resolve uncertainties and make decisions for tackling new situations in the future. A
Some useful trivia facts and helpful information here from Shauna Kellyhttp://www.shaunakelly.com/word/index.html
This is an entry really for Tuesday 17th October… …the day that History Matters wanted everyone to make the biggest blog in history to record a snapshot in time. In this account of my day I have tried to include details that may be of interest in the future, particularly
Mostly a press release from the University of Leicester. I’ve talked to Alan about this – he is a real learning technologies innovator, and also used a wiki in a virology course – students had to add a page to Wikipedia and if it survived intact for a week then
As the Adelie Project is named after a penguin, I thought I’d look yup the penguin songs out there. I can’t find the one I’m looking for, which goes: “We’re marching along with a smile and a songWith a cheer, loud and clear,for the penguins!We’re loyal and trueIn whatever we
OK there must be somebody else out there who likes Babylon 5 – I’ve just found out you can watch the first season episodes for free on the Internet (Windows XP only) http://television.aol.com/in2tv/heroes_horror_tv?defaultLevel=0&defaultItem=1
Applications are being developed for a 17 KHz sound that young people can hear but adults can’t. Apparently by about 25 we lose the ability to hear such high-pitched sounds. It started out as a deterrent for shops etc. to play loudly and discourage teens from loitering. Then in a
To start podcasting you create an audio file and make it available via the Web … but that’s not yet the whole of podcasting (it’s just an audio file on the Web). As a colleague explained to me yesterday, an important element of podcasting is the subscription element. Users “subscribe”