I will be giving a seminar at the Education Show in Birmingham on Saturday 1st March 2008. It’s about our 10-year-old project for young writers and their parents, teachers and librarians: Kids on the Net If you’re a teacher, educator or exhibitor, and you’re coming to the show why not
Helping your potential customers to connect with other people can pay dividends in many ways. You can help them to make the decision to buy your products by providing an environment conducive to persuasion. Research shows that people are most likely to make a decision if they are allowed to
Helen and Liz of Reach Further wish all our readers a happy, prosperous and successful New Year.
It’s been an exciting week, as I am changing jobs. Instead of mostly being at University of Leicester with a little bit of consultancy, I will now be mostly working as a consultant with Reach Further Ltd., headquartered in Leeds, and spend less time working for Leicester, as the Adelie
I’m not entirely sure what the difference is between podcasting, WebTV and videosharing. I suspect the difference is merely semantics and probably not important, it’s the sites that matter. Here’s an interesting site that does WebTV/podcasts. Quite a lot about entrepreneurship. http://www.thamesvalleypod.tv/
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Helen Whitehead and Liz Cable from Reach Further will be attending the Women, Business & Blogging Conference at De Montfort University, Leicester, on 8th June 2007.
What is the 1% rule?http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html “It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact” with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.” Actually, I’m not so sure
with thanks mostly to Martin Mackain-Bremner via the recent JISC Web 2.0 Webinar Second Life official homepage: http://www.secondlife.com/ and http://secondlife.com/education/Media coverage: Second Life has received a LOT of media coverage in the past year or so. A press archive is maintained here: http://secondlife.com/news/ Some academic projects:Schome: http://www.schome.ac.uk/TPLD: http://tpld.net/main.php?page=102 Game-based learning
I was at a seminar yesterday by Christina Preston of MirandaNet, an interesting community of practice for teachers and associated professionals, that has been in existence since 1992 and online since around 1994 but not really effective online until recently. She reminded us how important it is to do learning