Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Bristwestival

I briefly mentioned Bristwestival in an earlier post but I think its a big enough to justify a whole post of its own! I have purchased my ticket (along with about 25 others at this point) and was especially pleased to see the venue is the Lanes, a new bowling alley/diner/night club hybrid in the…

January 25, 2009
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…

January 25, 2009
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…

January 21, 2009
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…

January 19, 2009
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…

January 9, 2009