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Looks like a pretty comprehensive resource - Terry Freedman

Interesting overview of new applications and technologies and their adoption times. - Terry Freedman

Summary of timetable towards implementation, what this is all about, 'guarantees' and videos. I haven't read any of this, but am posting this in order to let people know it's available. - Terry Freedman

Key paragraph and website: "We will make government data accessible through a single access point at www.data.gov.uk, which will go live from January 2010 with over 1,100 central government datasets free for reuse, ranging from lists of schools to traffic volumes on the trunk road network." - Terry Freedman

I enjoyed taking part in this. Unable to multitask effectively when giving a presentation (can anyone?), I am gradually catching up with the comments on screen as I listen and watch the recording in bits each day. The presentation looks at the factors which help to make a (web 2.0) project successful, and includes (mainly) a case study of a multimedia project, and info taken from the forthcoming Web 2.0 Projects ebook. Thanks to Peggy, Kim and Lorna for their support before, during and after the session. - Terry Freedman

I've only had a cursoy glance at this, but it seems good. - Terry Freedman

Interesting selection of stuff discovered thru Twitter, eg video games link. It includes one of my posts too, but that's not the reason I'm posting this! - Terry Freedman

Includes briefing pack on cyberbullying that contains, amongst other things, hguidance for parents. - Terry Freedman

Excellent post which basically asks the question: is it wise to chuck out all the rules we know to be sensible when it comes to elearning and consultants? - Terry Freedman

The latest edition of IFIP, the ICT newsletter based in India, includes a range of interesting-looking articles, including social entrepreneurship and ICT in Nigeria. Also, the work Miles Berry and I did to find out how youngsters use technology when not at school. Available free of charge. - Terry Freedman

A lot of good stuff comes out of Denmark as far as education is concerned, and I think this raises the stakes a bit. In a nutshell, this exam allows students to use the internet to help them answer the questions. The questions are not about finding facts, but validation of search engine results and such like. As Stephen Heppell says, students use computers in their education, and then as soon as they walk through the examination room door they have to leave all that behind and write their answers. I'd go further: research has shown that setting tests which involve a different mode of answering from the mode of learning leads to poorer performance. In other words, if students have covered a course mainly through using technology, they should be required to use the technology for the examination. Similarly with paper-based learning. - Terry Freedman

I wonder if (a) this is also true of the UK and (b) if so, what would Baroness Greenfield make of it? The summary suggests that the increase in the use of the internet and mobile phones does NOT lead to social isolation, but instead: "is associated with larger and more diverse discussion networks. And, when we examine people’s full personal network – their strong and weak ties – internet use in general and use of social networking services such as Facebook in particular are associated with more diverse social networks." - Terry Freedman

Looks like a great competition for youngsters to get involved in. "Write a news story or a script between 250 and 400 words or make a video or audio recording (between 90 seconds and 120 seconds) that tells us how you think “technology is changing the way we learn”." - Terry Freedman

A good article by Sheyne Lucock on the drawbacks of using IWBs from a pedagogical point of view. I have known Sheyne for many years, and his views are not unknown to me. It's good to see them in print, however, and it will be interesting to see other people's reactions to them. - Terry Freedman

Not the most hilarious comic strip I've read, but I really like Kevin's comment about it! - Terry Freedman

Balanced article: mother and daughter each giving their views on whether or not Facebook is safe. As my wife said, that's like asking if cars are safe to drive. - Terry Freedman

News item about the need to address internet-related safety issues in a Bill going through the Scottish Parliament.Pauline McNeill's comment is interesting I think. - Terry Freedman

Looks like an interesting site to use as a starting point for some types of technical support -- although I have to say there doesn't appear to be a great number of links. - Terry Freedman

This video has nothing to do with educational technology as such. However, I decided toi bookmark it because it contains some important lessons for would-be student media stars: * Do your research * Only prepare the first question * Above all, LISTEN Definitely worth watching with your class and then discussing. - Terry Freedman

You don't necessarily have to be a "techie" in order to be able to manage a technical support team effectively. These guidelines explain how. - Terry Freedman

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this diy youtube idea looks very interesting - Terry Freedman

Interesting embeddable widget I discovered on Wesley Fryer's blog, http://www.speedofcreativity.org/. It shows how many blog posts etc there have been since you loaded the widget, in real time. I'm not actually sure how valuable or even valid such information is. There is no doubt, however, that using it in a presentation, as Fryer intended to do, would be a good way of grabbing people's attention right from the start. Perhaps it would work well in a classroom setting too, as a starting point for a discussion about what such statistics mean, in a 'real' sense. - Terry Freedman

An interesting-looking blog, which I came across courtesy of Julie Lindsay's blog at htp://123elearning.blogspot.com. It's about the use of computer games, but specifically in the contexty of English as a Foreign/Second Language. Looks potentially useful, and I will be xploring it for possible inclusion the Games issue of the Computers in Classrooms newsletter. - Terry Freedman

Notre Dame High School in Sheffield, UK, is planning to allow students to bring their phones and other mobile devices into the classroom. I was pleased to see in this article that Mick Brooks, of the NAHT, is taking a non-Luddite stance on this. Unsuprising: he was one of the panel at the recent launch of the Cambridge Review of the Primary Curriculum, which I wrote about recently (http://www.ictineducation.org/home-pa...). Paul Haigh, the Deputy Head mentioned in the article, and I exchanged messages just after the Handheld Learning Conference, and it's good to see his work being picked up by a national newspaper. - Terry Freedman

I quite like the questions suggested in this post about being critically literate by Lisa Durff. I agree with her when she says that critical literacy should be extended to all media, not just books. Like her, I have always encouraged my students to question everything (which took a humorous -- and welcome -- turn when they started to question ME!). Read and bookmark and share this post. - Terry Freedman

I quite like the questions suggested in this post about being critically literate by Lisa Durff. I agree with her when she says that critical literacy should be extended to all media, not just books. Like her, I have always encouraged my students to question everything (which took a humorous -- and welcome -- turn when they started to question ME!). Read and bookmark and share this post. - Terry Freedman

At first glane, this wiki-based video repository seems quite comprehensive. Given that it can be edited by anyone, I'm slightly concerned that 'rogue' videos may find their place on to the site. Also, will stuff be moved about making it hard to find again? Still, there is a search facility. I will be exploring this and reporting on it in due course. Thanks to coolcatteacher.blogspot.com for blogging about it, which is how I heard about it. - Terry Freedman

Great post from Steve Dembo. Just because you tweet it, doesn't mean to say anyone will 'hear' it! Nice post with good tips. - Terry Freedman

@blogactionday blog action day" - Terry Freedman

ICT in The Rose Review of the Primary Curriculum - Terry Freedman