Monthly Archive for March, 2010

links for 2010-03-31

do we have safer children in a digital world-WEB.pdf (application/pdf Object) Do we have safer children in a digital world? A review of progress since the 2008 Byron Review. Professor Byron began her progress review in January 2010 and on 29 March 2010 published Do we have safer children in a digital world? A review [...]

links for 2010-03-30

CHART OF THE DAY: Here's Why The Next Year And A Half Is Critical In The Smartphone Wars If half US users will have smartphones by Q3 2011, what will school students have? "But the majority of people in the U.S. still own feature phones — the "dumb" phones that are primarily used to phone [...]

links for 2010-03-29

TelecomTV | Video | Interview Stephen Fry, Writer/Actor/Broadcaster In an exclusive interview writer, broadcaster, actor and self confessed technophile Stephen Fry describes his passion for mobile technology, and his excitement at visiting the Mobile World Congress for the first time. (tags: technology mobile video bookmark design stephen-fry)

Preston Lodge High School celebrates 3 years of Prestonlodge.net

This month Preston Lodge High School in Prestonpans, East Lothian has been celebrating the first 3 years of Prestonlodge.net. It runs on East Lothian’s Edubuzz.org WordPress MU blog system, and has grown to become a family of over 30 blogs supporting most departments in the school. Starting with just two main sites – the main PrestonLodge.net [...]

links for 2010-03-28

How Smartphones and Handheld Computers Are Bringing on an Educational Revolution | Fast Company A Is for App: How Smartphones, Handheld Computers Sparked an Educational Revolution (tags: mobile education handheld teaching media mobilelearning)

links for 2010-03-23

SQA – NPA Digital Literacy (tags: sqa uk digital-literacy qualifications microsoft) E-Portfolios for Students and Schools with Secure Social Networking Commercial e-portfolio offering. (tags: eportfolios vendor)

links for 2010-03-22

Smokescreen game guides teenagers through dangers of social networking | Technology | The Observer Prize-winning British game explores issues of identity theft and cyber stalking – Uses game as simulation to provide learning experience, doesn't just "tell". (tags: education internet-safety cyber-bullying privacy social-software web2.0 classroom school)

links for 2010-03-20

DGREE: Envisioning the Future of Higher Education – Home DGREE is envisioning the future of higher education and exploring how technology and innovation can drive new models for student-centered, lifetime (tags: education creativity curriculum design future inspiration technology highered) DGREE: Envisioning the Future of Higher Education – News – Video: Tim O'Reilly on Education as [...]

links for 2010-03-19

E Mellor 9116 An example of a simple student e-portfolio in Google Apps. "Hello, welcome to my portfolio. Here you will see a numerous amount of projects we do at New Hope Middle School. " (tags: e-portfolios google-apps examples cross-curricular cfe) Get Rid of Splogs Once and For All – WordPress MU and BuddyPress plugins, [...]

links for 2010-03-18

WordPress MU › WordPress MU Forums » SCORM in WPMU? Based on the interest we have seen online, we at scorm.com are working on a wordpress/wpmu plugin that will allow a site to host SCORM (1.2 & 2004 4th ED) content with minimal effort. This could turn your MU installation into a basic training delivery [...]