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NMC 2009 Horizon Report
This years Horizon report from the New Media Consortium and Educause Learning Initiative is online now. I haven’t read it cover to cover as it were yet but first impressions are its not the most ground breaking set of emerging technologies to focus on- I mean focusing on cloud computing and mobile technologies is a…
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Been Blogging @ Bettr
My smooth piece of alliteration in the title (and anyone with a superohero habit like me loves a bit of alliteration) is mainly to point out that I have been doing a bit of blogging over at http://bettr.org and that has slowed things down a bit here. Most of the content over there that is…
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Events update
A few quick events related updates today while I have a spare 10 minutes 🙂 Well I survived Bettr and all in all it went pretty well I think. There were a few dodgy patches and my Chief Exec managed to to get the back up of the BBC folks pretty much immediately with an…
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One Laptop Per Child Project Struggling
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) was (is) a noble project originally based at MIT that aimed to create a cheap, durable laptop that could be used by children and educators in developing countries. Despite these admirable goals the project has been dogged by issues almost since day one and the founder Nicholas Negroponte has seemingly…
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US Airforce Blog Flowchart – everyone should have one!
Now this is a bit out of date now as I meant to blog about this a week or so again when I saw it a week or so ago but I think its interesting and important enough to quickly mention – if only as a reminder to myself in the future. This is exactly…