Future of Web Apps Expo | London 8›10 October 2008
Future of Web Apps Expo is back in London, bringing you our fresh blend of amazing speakers, great advice and tons of networking potential.
The Future of Web Apps showcases the successful web technologies and business trends of the future, delivered by the pioneers of today. Attended by all the major European and US start-ups and industry experts, it's the best place to learn directly from the developers, designers and entrepreneurs behind the web's brightest stars in a relaxed and fun environment.
Future of Mobile 2008 | London 17›18 November 2008
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Diigo Tags 10/01/2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The Gurkha Justice Campaign
See the campaign in action here
Gurkhas are fighting for Justice. They want the same terms and conditions as their UK and Commonwealth counterparts.
Britain has had no greater friends than the Gurkhas. They have served all across the world in the defence of our Country for nearly 200 years. Over 45,000 died in the two World Wars as part of the British Army. They are still fighting in the British Army today.
You may have seen in the media that they are fighting in Parliament and the Courts. Step by step, things are getting better - but there is a long way to go.
Today, we expect judgement from the High Court as to whether their treatment has been unlawful in terms of the right to live in the UK if they retired before 1997.
Whatever the High Court decides today, the Government has to change the law on how it treats Gurkhas. We demand the full, fundamental change in law that will allow all retired Gurkhas the right to live here.
By signing up below you will be expressing your support for all Gurkhas. You will be signing our petition, and we will be able to contact you in the future as we mount the largest ever campaign to get them the Justice that they deserve.
Join me in the campaign: together, we can finally right this wrong.
Joanna Lumley
Dim Dim 4 - still a great user interface
At 4pm UK(11am EDT) Sundar from DimDim hosted an online session on the new aspects of DimDim4 - it still has the best look and feel of any of the online video conferencing apps, and is developing quickly, using feedback from users in order to make it even better. If you want to join in and ask questions that get directly back to DimDim go to the website and simply sign up for a session and experience it for yourself.
I think that it is still a powerful contender, perhaps held back by its limit of 20 people per meeting in the free version, rising to 100 with addition of being able to add your own branding in the Pro $99 per year version. In the free and pro versions you can only have one meeting going on at one time but can have meetings spread out around the clock which is useful. Below are some of the key features of DimDim4
Look out for more features from the DimDim crew in 2009.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Diigo Tags 09/29/2008
YouTube - Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling in SL
YouTube - Immersive Learning Environments
Stacy Williams, assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University talks about incorporating virtual world technology and simulations in teaching and research
QA_ETRD.pdf (application/pdf Object)
This article describes the Quest Atlantis (QA)
project, a learning and teaching project that
employs a multiuser, virtual environment to
immerse children, ages 9–12, in educational
tasks. QA combines strategies used in
commercial gaming environments with lessons
from educational research on learning and
motivation. It allows users at participating
elementary schools and after-school centers to
travel through virtual spaces to perform
educational activities, talk with other users
and mentors, and build virtual personae.YouTube - Quest Atlantis:Greenwich Kids
Quest Atlantis in education
YouTube - Quest Atlantis Immersive Learning Environment Expanding
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Paul's Virtual Worlds Diigo Tags
Peggy Sheehy opens the conference with some inspring stories of how SL can be used in education.
HeyJude Online's presentation and discussion at the Joeys AuditoriumQuest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks.
Quest Atlantis (QA) is a learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-12, in educational tasks. Building on strategies from online role-playing games, QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. It allows users to travel to virtual places to perform educational activities (known as Quests), talk with other users and mentors, and build virtual personae. A Quest is an engaging curricular task designed to be entertaining yet educational.
lg3d-wonderland: Project Wonderland
Project Wonderland is a 100% Java and open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio, share live desktop applications and documents and conduct real business. Wonderland is completely extensible; developers and graphic artists can extend its functionality to create entire new worlds and new features in existing worlds.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Paul's mobile microblogging Diigo Tags
Utterli - Mobile Multimedia Discussions
Playing with Utterli crossposting... now this is cool. I add an Utterli and it updates all my networks! Watch my video and let me know what you think.
10 Micro-Blogging Tools Compared - ReadWriteWeb
Reviews
Bitte wähle Deine Sprache:
Veuillez choisir votre langue:Get your Hictu invitation from a friend & join the service.
Create your own microblog with video audio and text posts.
Personalize your public profile and tell us something about whatever you want
Meet new friends.#
Create your activity stream
Post Jaikus, add icons, customize your design, share your Web feeds
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Follow your friends
Get their updates, see their presence, add comments
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Get Jaiku on your phone
Text Jaikus from any phone. Share your availability, location, and calendar from your smartphone
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› Take the tourSquid Micro-Blogging Library - Home
Project Description
Squid is a easy-to-use micro-blogging library that allows a user to create an RSS feed by simply writing a simple T-SQL statement. Creating an RSS feed is literally a one step process. Simply write something like "SELECT Id=0, Title=PersonName, Description=PersonSalesData FROM dbo.Person" and you're done!Spoink - do anything interesting?
If you can talk on the phone; send an Instant Message, SMS Text; send a picture or video from MMS or Email then you can use Spoink to create multimedia content for your Web Site, Blog or Social Network as well as keep your friends up to date with your current activities and meet new friends with similar interests your first step is to Sign-Up .
Send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. Create a network of friends and share stuff. It's free and easy…
Edmodo - Microblogging For Education
Edmodo microblogging for schools
The Edmodo Blog
Socialbrowse - the easiest way to share and discuss links - Socialbrowse.com
What can I do with Socialbrowse?
1
Share and discuss any page with a single click
2
Receive real time updates of cool links shared by people you like
3
Discover the best links, right within the page!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Teachmeet 08 at the Scottish Learning Festival
Today 24th September the 9th (or was it 10th?) Teachmeet was held at the Scottish Learning Festival, recent Teachmeet's have been streamed through Flashmeeting and this evening at 6pm master of Flashmeeting ceremonies David Noble hosted around 13 educators from the UK and further afield ( including a certain David Warlick!) as the in room host Ewan McIntosh hosted his last Teachmeet. This link will take you the unedited Flashmeeting recording.You may need to fast forward past the initial setting up, however, if you are patient you are in for a real treat, as this I think is the best flashmeeting/Teachmeet yet, even accounting for some very localised Scottish accents.... not all are Scots though, indeed don't miss the first presentation of the evening by Tom Barrett showing some of the inspirational work he is doing in his UK primary school. In the middle of the recording is a visit to the breakout sessions,also a tribute to the departing Mr McIntosh.For the quality of the learning experience this is a must see recording.
The demise of Skypecasts
I see that from earlier this month (1st September) Skype has discontinued( or in their words - retired) its Skypecasts (beta) as again in their words 'the quality of what was produced didn't quite measure up to the high standards that they required of the service'. This will be a disappointment to those who used it to join in some excellent conversations over VOIP.
However I can understand their decision as the open nature of joining a skypecast could also lead to some less than brilliant examples of VOIP - Skypecasts could literally be gate-crashed by anyone registered with Skype, I remember from the first series of K12Online in 2006 that the 'When Night Falls 24 hour skypecast was on numerous occasions stopped in its tracks by strange interlopers!
I hope that Skype have an idea of how they want to replace the 'Wild West' that was Skypecast!!!
Periodic Table of Videos
Thanks to IB Chemistry online mentor Maria Muniz Valcarcel for bringing to my attention this gem of a site where Nottingham University have put together an excellent resource of short Youtube video clips on each chemical element. They have also thought about the possibility of YouTube video being blocked in many schools - to aid this they have set up a mirror site here which will hopefully allow your school to use this as a resource for your students.I think that the winner as far as student use is concerned is the interface itself allowing them to visualise where they are in the table and then have the rich full media experience.
Here is the introduction to the series :
You can also subscribe to their Youtube feed here http://www.youtube.com/periodicvideos
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Diigo Tags 09/23/2008
An Abergavenny boy and before his untimely death in 2003 an occasional player for Abergavenny Hockey Club.
Monday, September 22, 2008
If you click the EdTech Roundup link above it will take you to the Sunday (21st September) evening Flashmeeting discussion between a group of dedicated UK educators - also here. The discussion was linked around a series of WOW's of the week where particpants explained some of the tools that they are currently using in their classrooms in particular in this show a discussion between the merits of Edmodo ( thanks Jose) and Yammer for secure microblogging. Utterli , Flowgram and Bussu ( for mfl teachers *)also cropped up in conversation. This is weeks discussion was once again ably lead by Doug Belshaw ably assisted by Lisa Stevens the wiki pixie. In the morning I had joined the late night Oz teachers Flashmeeting ably lead by Simon Brown and Sue Tapp with local colour and humour supplied by the ever resourceful Dean Groom
Diigo Tags 09/22/2008
David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
edu blog
"Sir, why do you hate PowerPoint?" - EffectiveICT.co.uk forum
Why you shouldn't use powerpoint.
dean groom's List: A Collection on "10th Grade Commerce Voice Thread" (10vt) | Diigo
Mr Groom's voicethreads
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Utterli ( nee Utterz)
It has been a day of revelation and multi tasking - Utterli ( the Utterli blog here )came up in converstaion at some point during the day..... from an Aussie I believe. Utterli is a bit more verstaile as a tool than is something like 12seconds.tv I guess. These are the audio/visual equivalent of Twitter were you can join in the conversation and invite others in to either a written or multimedia collaboration.Utterli is particulalry easy to use and I think could easily become addictive..... ooooh dear!
(Utterli was until earlier this month known as Utterz)
Using Flowgram
It strikes me as a tool which is as easy to get your head around as something like Voicethread in that the recording procees is easy, it even gives you a time line in order that you can organise your presentation. You can use a range of different sources to which flowgram will sync. My small example uses a voice over a blog post, followed by a picture from my hard drive ( I should have voiced over that as well!) You can also upload powerpoint slides for voice overs as well. I thin that it would be great to see how kids in a real class use this tool..... more creatively than I ;-)( the sound effect in the background, not of course a steam train, but Mrs H ironing..... I did my ironing this ironing before joining Sue, Dean and the gang from downunder .... honestly I did!!!!)
Yammer - A micro-blog for your organisation
My WOW of the week - is Yammer, Twitter without the hassle!
Yammer recently won the top prize at the TechCrunch 50 event. But what is it and how could it work for you?
Yammer is Twitter-like in that it works on micro-blogging rules of short posts, where it scores over Twitter is that you can set up a Yammer network for your own organisation/ school or social network group which is then closed to others..... no followers only invitees! In addition to the micro blogging you can also tag posts to help colleagues find what they are looking for. If the organisation or someone within it wishes to takes admin rights over the group allowing access controls etc there is a fee of $1 per user per month, but if not the whole system works free for your users.
Below David Sachs the founder of Yammer explains the origins and uses of Yammer
It would be a great system to set up for all sorts of groups - especially perhaps as people consider how to introduce these tools into the classroom - Yammer can be configured to work from SMS (The company already allows interaction with the service via the site, an AIR client, iPhone, Blackberry, IM, SMS and email. This evening they’ve also launched an API to allow third party developers to build Yammer into their applications. ) The AIR client integration means that you can have a Twirl - like update on your desktop.
You could set up your class/subject group up on Yammer and use this as a means of communication for both assignments and as a method of communicating comments on assigments. It could also form part of your education of pupils on acceptable use.
Within a school a Yammer community of teachers would certainly help to begin the process of integrating web 2.0 tools into teachers daily lives with a purpose - I would advise against school admin getting involved as it could soon temper the debate within the group!!
This certainly seems to be something which would be useful in many different schools/organisations as a means of communication that the Twitter community can understand.
[yammer]
Diigo Tags 09/21/2008
ExitReality - The Entire Web in 3D
ExitReality is a free internet plug-in that allows anyone to view every web page in 3D
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Diigo Tags 09/20/2008
edubloggercon » Learning 2.008 Edubloggercon
Learning 2.0 08 wiki
Translated version of http://ikt-diginalet.blogspot.com/
Norwegian blog
K12 Online Conference 2008 | 2008-Teasers
Teaser for the upcoming K12Online2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Diigo Tags 09/19/2008
Shanghai Community International School
Host for @learning 2.008
More slideshow creators than I can shake a stick at
With the new version of Wordpress used by Creative Blogs you have a much wider variety of slideshow production platforms than you used to have (you were pretty much limited to using Bubbleshare and Rockyou). Now a host of different services will work.
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