Archive for October, 2008

Virtual Field Trips

Friday, October 31st, 2008

An interesting example of how technology can link learning outside the classroom with learning inside the classroom?
http://www.edutopia.org/virtual-field-trips

Sharing interfaces, spaces and objects

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

The 2008 Shareable Interfaces for Learning Workshop turned out to be a fascinating event in a very interesting space. I demonstrated Futurelab’s My-E (My Education), a prototype online visual environment that can support very young students to explore and express their own personal learning experiences, interests and aims.

Creativity and Digital Technologies

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

An interesting presentation by David Puttnam at last weeks Handheld Learning conference which is supported by the findings of the most recent report on the use of ICT in schools which was comprehensively covered by Maureen McTaggart at
http://www.merlinjohnonline.net/
The question is what are we going to do to avoid the “catastrophe”theory?

Go with the Flow

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

I don’t usually blog about Web apps on Flux but every once in a while a really, really handy web app comes along and Flowgram is definitely one of them.