True Wow! moments – those that trigger a response like a lighted match dropped into a box of fireworks. Such occasions for me include my first program on a ZX81 (it’s amazing what you can do with 1K of RAM), seeing Seymour Papert demonstrating Logo, discovering Mosaic (the first web browser) and watching Apple’s [...]
I’ve always been interested in alternatives to standard 2-dimensional photos and through the years have played with everything from multiple photo collages (like Hockney’s) to Apple’s QuickTime VR. Now there’s a way to plug panoramas into Google Earth, thanks to the creativity of Andrew Hudson-Smith from University College London, made visible at his [...]
Thought I would cross-reference this post from the Chi Benchmarking Blog. Gives an update on what is happening in the Benchmarking project:
A more general narrative about the cohort meeting has been posted on the HE Academy/ JISC weblog by Paul Bacsich – I realise you can access the HE Academy Blog on the Blogroll [...]
On Wednesday 11th July at the University of Brighton I attended ElggJam07, the first ‘conference’ on Elgg – an open source social networking platform which offers blogs, networking, community, feeds and file sharing features. See previous postings for further information on Elgg.
The conference was held in the recently constructed ‘Creativity Room’ at the [...]
Well, not really wiz – but quite reasonable at only 79p. Users of iPods have always been able to use the inbuilt Music Quiz in the games section to see if they can recognize the first few bars of any tune. More elaborate games have appeared in the last year, such as Tetris, [...]
Viv Palmer has sent me a link to an excellent site produced by the OU/Sussex Learning Network that helps to explain what Web 2.0 applications actually do and how they may be useful in supporting learning. It’s stuffed with links to demos, examples and research papers and deserves a place in your Bookmarks or [...]
Living five minutes from Southsea beach, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that I’m close to one of the busiest pieces of water in the world. It’s easy to recognize the various ferries but there are always many container ships making their way to Portsmouth or Southampton – it would be great to [...]
As several of us have played with Podcasts in the last couple of years, I was pleased to discover that Apple had sneaked in a different variety of goods available from their iTunes Store – iTunes U now has presentations, lectures, even whole courses aimed at Higher Education. As most of the material is [...]
