Apple are sending out a suite of law-suits to protect the word “pod” as used in the word podcasting. They have targeted iPodder – which I can understand – it’s the “i” and the “pod” used together that is their trademark. However I don’t see how they can win on
On my wall is a cartoon from Claire Bretecher called Creation. It’s from a Sunday newspaper more years ago than I care to remember. And it’s all about procrastination. This seems to be the modern version of the idea… * Gotta Get My Stuff DoneAnother funny video is: * Communication
I’ve been looking into podcasting, now that I am working closely with the people responsible for the IMPALA project. Here’s an article from CBBC about schools podcasting Assignment: podcast from BT“A mini-website dedicated to providing pupils and teachers with everything they need to know to make their own internet audio
I did some research on intranets when I had a job interview. I didn’t go for the job in the end, but it seems a shame to waste the info, so here it is! Key intranet functionality Home page – with links to various parts of the web site and
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/about/index.html Jorum is a JISC-funded collaborative venture in UK Higher and Further Education to collect and share learning and teaching materials, allowing their reuse and repurposing, and standing as a national statement of the importance of creating interoperable, sustainable materials.
Also here A meme contest earlier in the year (May 2006) to find out what makes blogs popular. From Kevin Lim at theory.isthereason – a very interesting and reasoned blog about academia, technology and blogging.
“Divergent men who are successful are lauded in our society as leaders, entrepreneurs, go-getters. Divergent men who do not succeed are seen as impulsive, unreliable, fool-hardy. Divergent women are altogether a different story—seen as bossy, headstrong, domineering, uncontrolled and uncontrollable. Ah, what we miss by our definitional limits!” Guess whose
OK, so it’s my last day at work as an E-Learning Facilitator for NCSL Many thanks to the fantastic team who have made my year here a wonderful learning experience. I have made both friends and mentors. May I promote a couple of very useful free e-learning resources produced by
The mind boggles. Blackboard has filed a US patent (and is filing elsewhere in the world) that claims they invented the VLE – courses available on a computer network remotely, the roles of administrator, instructor and student, announcements, course info, online forums, chat and whiteboards. How serious is this? It
Couple of excellent elearning blog sitesCreating passionate usersand Internet time blog