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On the road again
Sorry for the slow updates - as you can see, we're on the road again. We've had some very interesting discussions; it's been great to meet the team here at MIT. Thanks to David Wiley for flying us over.
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Nintendo: the affordable PDA
Nintendo DS to get VoIP soon. The Nintendo DS is a handheld games console in the vein of the old Gameboy - but with the addition of a touch-sensitive screen and wifi capabilities. Just as the Playstation 2 brought DVDs into a lot of people's homes, this has
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Joga
http://www.joga.com/GLogin.aspx?done=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joga.com%2F A Google-Nike social networking joint venture. It appears to run on the Orkut platform, which has interesting implications for the future ...
The revolution is being podcast
Curverider is running a conference! We're organising an informal one day event in Edinburgh on September 4th, where we'll be talking about web technologies, learning landscapes, distributed environments and more. We've already lined up some interesting speakers and have plans for quite a controversial
Microsoft IE ActiveX Update - Preview
http://www.baekdal.com/articles/Technology/microsoft-ie-activex-update/ Plugins are about to be crippled in IE due to a patent dispute. No autorunning Flash could actually be a blessing, I think.
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Information: two approaches
This post has nothing to do with e-learning - or does it? This Michael Crichton op-ed in the New York Times caught my eye this morning. Normally I'm not so much of a Crichton fan - I loved his books when I was younger, but his recent anti-environmentalist
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Wasting time at the cutting edge
I am hopelessly addicted to Babble. I've always been a bit of a Boggle fan, but having a single puzzle every day that I can log into from any web browser and keep open in the background as I do my work is enough to keep me coming
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Bullfighter removes document bull
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/business/fight-the-corporate-bull-with-bullfighter-160740.php Bullfighter is a Microsoft Office plugin that highlights excess jargon and marketing speak. If only we could get a version that worked with people as well as documents ...
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Disabled users to test websites
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4816118.stm A very simple way to see if your website adheres to disability law: get someone disabled to test it. A genius business idea and incredibly important in public service web design.
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PHP hacker reading list
This should be of interest to anyone dabbling in Elgg programming. IBM have put together a recommended reading list for PHP programmers, including suggestions for development environments and server stacks to run your scripts against. There are some interesting integration tutorials linked, as well; if anyone wants to create an
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Blogs don't have brand identity
There's been a kerfuffle in the wider blogosphere lately about Dave Winer's decision to quit blogging. Basically, there seem to be a bunch of people who can't live without reading Scripting News every single day, and are pretty much begging him to reconsider. Michael
Web 2.0 e-learning roundup
That said, here are some web 2.0 services that I think might have their uses in education. As ever, I'm not advocating the use of centralised, commercial applications in education; I believe localised open source software most often provides the best solutions. However, the approaches below have