The BEd Students Tell A Story
Last week the BEd students were telling stories in five frames. If you are signed up for Flickr and the appropriate Flickr group, you should be able to see there work here: Read more...
EdCompBlog, Yesterday, 1:11pm
Fun on Friday #53: NORAD Tracks Santa
For the last Friday in Advent, I refer you to the American military. In particular, The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) who are performing a public service by tracking Santa as he travels the world delivering toys. Read more...
EdCompBlog, Yesterday, 1:12am
ICT Lecture at Jordanhill
Today at Jordanhill,we had a couple of chaps along to talk to the Secondary students about ICT developments. First up was Ronnie Rankin talking about Glow. Read more...
EdCompBlog, Feb 6, 1:13am
Fun on Friday #58: Lip Dub
I discovered a whole new world this week - one that I did not even know existed. Lip Dub. Mean anything to you? Read more...
EdCompBlog, Feb 6, 1:13am
Kayaks vs Canoes: George Dyson on how media literacy has really changed
Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education, Feb 5, 1:26pm
TapTale: Bringing literacy to a (iPhone) screen near you
Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education, Feb 5, 1:26pm
Links for 2010-01-28 [del.icio.us]
That Was Quick: Already, A Fund For iPad App Developers | mocoNews
That Was Quick: Already, A Fund For iPad App Developers | paidContent:UK
UK’s Northern Film and Media launches Apple iPad fund
Artists taking the lead | Challenging artists to use the nation as a blank canvas. Artists taking the lead, part of London 2012's Cultural Olympiad.
Strictly and The Apprentice pioneer new levels of social networking and online audience interaction | Digital tribes |... Read more...
Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education, Feb 5, 1:26pm
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#movemeon 2009 by Doug Belshaw in Education & Language
A book with a difference, #movemeon is a collection of 140-character pearls of wisdom from educators using the social networking service, Twitter.
From behaviour management to interaction with colleagues, you will find practical advice and ideas contributed by classroom practitioners! Read more...
Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education, Feb 5, 1:26pm
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BBC News - Google phases out support for IE6
It said that as a result, some "key functionality" of the applications would not work when used with IE6.
Google Docs is the firm's answer to products such as Microsoft Office, whilst Google Sites allows people to create web pages.
"The web has evolved in the last ten years, from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications including video and voice," wrote Google's Rajen Sheth in a blog post.
"Unfortunately, very old browsers cannot run many of these new features effectively."
Threat downplayed
Around 20% of web users still use the nine-year old browser, including many UK government departments.
But many developers want to see the browser phased out as soon as possible.
The online campaign ie6nomore, supported by more than 70 web firms, says that because the browser does not support modern web standards it... Read more...
Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education, Feb 5, 1:26pm
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Exams watchdog steps in over Facebook protest - Education News, Education - The Independent
The exams watchdog has stepped into the row over an A-level biology paper which led to thousands of students launching a Facebook protest against the exam board AQA for setting questions they felt were unfair.
Ofqual, the newly created independent exams regulator, has ordered the exam board to submit a report on the controversy. The move came as the number of students joining a Facebook page in protest against the paper – which they claim failed to stick to the syllabus – grew to more than 10,000. The exam was sat by just under 20,000 students on Monday.
Britons spent 170m on mobile games in 2009 -... Read more...
Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education, Feb 5, 1:26pm
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The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors - New York Times
Apparently they did not care so much about maintaining flexibility in the future. What really motivated them was the desire to avoid the immediate pain of watching a door close.
Eetcaf Jur
Excellent cafe / bistrot in the 'Dam Read more...
Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education, Feb 5, 1:26pm
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michael visocchi - portfolio - Gnomon
Cool real-fake art Read more...
Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education, Feb 5, 1:26pm
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British Firm Starts iPad App Fund - Digits - WSJ
Northern Film & Media said it will contribute as much as £40,000 (about $64,500) to help northeast England teams develop apps.
“We want the North East to have a place in the rapidly evolving global content market,” Tom Harvey, the firm’s chief executive, said in a statement. “We will do whatever it takes to ensure that North East companies have every opportunity to get their products developed, made, distributed and bought on whatever new platforms come along. Whatever we can do to help our companies get to the front of the queue, we will do.”
Digital Tribes
Emerging business models to help serve tomorrow's digital tribes. Read more...
Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education, Feb 5, 1:26pm
Personal projects are often worth more than professional ones. What's stopping you?
It's all too easy to relegate our personal projects to the bottom of the pile until "the day job" is complete. The result? We nearly always end up having to leave creative, fun, new projects behind in the interest of ticking someone else's boxes, when those same personal projects could be the very innovation that make the difference. Read more...
Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education, Feb 5, 1:26pm
Fun On Friday #50: New Moon Trailer... sort of!
If you have teenage daughters, you cannot have failed to notice that the second film in the Twilight series was released this week. New Moon will have girls squeaking with delight in cinemas up and down the country. It seemed appropriate therefore to post this trailer which also involves squeaking: Read more...
EdCompBlog, Feb 5, 1:11pm
A Glasgow Gathering
I was speaking on the phone recently to Andrew Brown and a number of things came together. We hatched cunning plan but here's some of the things that guided my thinking. (Andrew can explain his own thinking if he's so inclined!) Read more...
EdCompBlog, Feb 5, 1:12am
Torbay RTC: Who wants to be Golden-nuggetaire
Live blog from #torbayrtc Read more...
EdCompBlog, Feb 3, 1:12am
Fun on Friday #54: Be funky!
BeFunky is a fantastic photo editing site that has over one hundred effects you can apply to your digital images. Here's one of the many Pop Art effects applied to a picture of Colin: Read more...
EdCompBlog, Feb 3, 1:12am
Torbay RTC: Personalised Pocket Learning
Live blog from #torbayrtc Read more...
EdCompBlog, Feb 3, 1:12am
Fun on Friday #52: Practical Christmas task
Christmas is always a bit hectic. Concerts, performances, activities, shopping, eating, carol services, ... Too busy to find the time to try this craft, which is a pity because the end result looks stunning: Read more...
EdCompBlog, Feb 1, 1:12am
Facebook Privacy Settings
Saw a great post today on the new Facebook Privacy settings policy: Facebook privacy settings: What you need to know. It makes interesting reading (and watching as there is an embedded video). Read more...
EdCompBlog, Jan 31, 1:12pm
Mobile phones and teenagers
I saw a link to an American study on teenagers' use of phones. The headline was Teens Use Phones to Cheat which is a shame since the study seems to say a lot more than this simplistic summary would suggest. It looks like the poll is based on the responses of American teenagers but I wonder if UK teens would be any different? Read more...
EdCompBlog, Jan 30, 1:12pm
Fun on Friday #57: Who's in charge here?
This is great fun. If you enjoy it half as much as me, then I'll have enjoyed it twice as much as you! Read more...
EdCompBlog, Jan 30, 1:12am
Programming for the rest of us
I would write about Apple's new iPad but I suspect the Internet is already bursting at the seams with iPad prattle. It appears to have been greeted with awe, derision and confusion in roughly equal measure. Whether it turns out to be an iPod style success or a Newton style best-forgotten - its launch has certainly caused a stir! Read more...
EdCompBlog, Jan 29, 1:12am
iPhone Apps
I wrote about the potential of of the iPhone in education in The iPhone and the Scientist but at the time, I didn't have an one myself. I now have an iPhone (I tried to type that without being smug... I failed) so I thought it was time I returned to the subject of iPhone apps. Read more...
EdCompBlog, Jan 28, 1:12am
Fun on Friday #51: It's time to put up the decorations
Time to decorate your desktop with some Christmas lights: Read more...
EdCompBlog, Jan 25, 1:45am
Fun on Friday #56: If an infinite number of monkeys...
A brilliantly simple idea. Adapt a camera so that it releases a raisin whenever a picture is taken. And here's the part that is true genius - give the camera to an orang-utan. Oh... and while you're at it, automatically send the photos taken to a facebook account. Read more...
EdCompBlog, Jan 23, 1:12am
The BEds Get Animated
This is the last post, for now, on the work of the BEd Computers, Creativity and Education class. The final session was on stop-motion animation. (For the other posts, see The BEd Students Tell A Story and The BEds are back... and this time they're podcasting.) Read more...
EdCompBlog, Jan 22, 1:12pm
I hate marking!
While I fully understand the importance of assessment and how valuable it is in learning, simply knowing this doesn't make the process of marking any more pleasant. Read more...
EdCompBlog, Jan 22, 1:12am
Fun on Friday #51: It's Beginning To Feel A Lot Like Christmas...
As I explained on my music blog, I realised that there are now only four Fridays to Christmas. By my reckoning, that makes this the first Fun on Friday in advent. :-) Read more...
EdCompBlog, Jan 18, 1:11pm
Fun On Tuesday
For my Fun On Friday Advent posts, I was looking for a decent Christmas themed game but didn't manage to find one... until today. Read more...
EdCompBlog, Jan 17, 1:11pm
Fun on Friday #55: Boogie Bot!
Haven't you always wanted to build a dancing robot? No? Just me then! Read more...
EdCompBlog, Jan 16, 1:12am
The BEds are back... and this time they're podcasting
One of the courses I really enjoy teaching is the Computers, Creativity and Education class. We look at a wide range of creative computer use, for example, the other day they aimed to tell a story in five frames and I posted a request for you to have a look at their pictures (The BEd Students Tell A Story). Read more...
EdCompBlog, Jan 16, 1:12am