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Reading, Writing and Arithmetic on the Web or the Wii

Posted on December 3, 2007. Filed under: children, collaboration, education, edutainment, gaming, kids, technology, wii |

I’ve just had a quick go on a few games on the Arcademic Skill Builders site, having read a blog posting by the Shifted Librarian “The Three Wii R’s“. Arcademic Skill Builders are providing free educational ‘arcade’ games for (younger) children that can be accessed over the web, or using a Wii browser and ‘mote. There are single-player and [...]

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Journal Articles: Ratings and Comments

Posted on November 7, 2007. Filed under: education, indexing, library 2.0, sharing, technology, web 2.0 |

How long will it be before it is possible to rate and comment on articles and papers and see that people who read this also read… these papers and these books and want to read these ones?

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Virtual Edutainment Worlds for Children

Posted on October 26, 2007. Filed under: accessibility, barbiegirls, children, club penguin, education, edutainment, funkeys, future, gaming, kids, play, sharing, technology, tygirlz, webkinz |

When speaking at the Virtual Worlds Forum in London this week about the game-related worlds targetted at children (primarily those that link membership of the world to ownership of a toy) Lord Puttnam (who is incidentally the new Chancellor of The Open University) presented the following challenge:
“The challenge ahead is this - to ensure that [...]

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End of PROWE event

Posted on October 5, 2007. Filed under: OU, PROWE, cpd, education, library 2.0, technology, web 2.0 |

I am organising an end of project event on Wednesday 12th December for the JISC-funded OU-led PROWE project (www.prowe.ac.uk) which looked at the use of informal repositories within wiki and blogs to meet the Continuing Professional Development needs of part-time tutors.
We will be disseminating PROWE’s findings at the [...]

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Podcasts and indexing

Posted on September 26, 2007. Filed under: You Tube, del.icio.us, education, future, indexing, lectures, podcasting, students, technology, universities, web 2.0 | Tags: podcasts indexing future students lectures |

Brian Kelly’s post “The Future As Today, But More So” started me wondering whether today’s university students, who audio/video record their lectures (or whose lecturers provide them with recordings) bother to take full handwritten notes. Perhaps it is down to the individual student and the quality of the recording/accessibility/reliability of the technology. If [...]

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A kids-eye view of wii gaming

Posted on September 14, 2007. Filed under: design, gaming, kids, play, technology, wii |

I read this post (”A kid’s-eye view of laptop design” about a group of primary school children who pretend to email each other using keyboards that they have drawn out on paper:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9778012-7.html
and it reminded me that my daughter has this week drawn and cut out a couple of ‘motes and a screen and has been [...]

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RL emulates SL?

Posted on September 6, 2007. Filed under: You Tube, second life, technology, web 2.0 |

Real Life emulates Second Life?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkgNn50k14

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It’s not a bug it’s a…

Posted on August 30, 2007. Filed under: image, technology |

…feature of the system.
David Turpie pointed me to this most excellent image: http://www.peterdehaas.net/2007/08/its-not-a-bug-i.html
This brought back memories of past development/implementation projects.

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Google Reader

Posted on June 28, 2007. Filed under: feed aggregator, google, rss, technology, web 2.0 |

Within Google Reader it is possible to ’star’ your favourite items and to then view your list of starred items; it is also possible to add tags to items and then browse them. Unfortunately it is not possible to search for items within Google Reader. So that item that you had thought to [...]

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