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Category: web 2.0

  • No Google – Day 2

    Yes … I used Google today. I admit it … but there was no choice … or so I thought. Quite a few sites will now have a search facility powered by Google. Nicely indexed, linked in with other features and in a big search box which has “google” all over it. So now I…

  • No Google – day 1

    So the first of the month also sees me starting my month of not using Google as my one-stop shop to find anything and everything. Some helpful suggestions about alternatives for specific tasks will come in handy, but today has been around setting my fixed parameters. There are some things that I cannot avoid. I…

  • Searching for that elusive fact!

    After reading Ray Fleming’s recent blog entries about writing blogs I was most interested episode 3 where he talked about getting onto the first page of Google and why Google was the important used engine in the UK. We were also lucky enough to have Adam Bates, from Encyclopedia Britannica, come along to the Northants…

  • TeachMeet Midlands 09

    Friday was quite a fun night really … an eventful start to it as I witnessed a car crash into the central reservation, provided immediate assistance (no injuries, just shock), called emergency services and got my trainers covered in mud. If you have never come across a TeachMeet before I consider myself lucky that I…

  • ETRU VLE Special

    Sunday saw an EdTech RoundUp special on VLEs, looking at what is out there, how they are used, particular solutions and how they are adopted, and a bit more of a look at EdModo. It was a good session and I have just listened to the podcast to review certain aspects of it. One of…

  • BSF and ICT

    As well as stuff from NAACE2009, there have been a few other sessions I have been to looking at BSF. Over the weekend I’ll put up some notes on this and things that I am looking at. The first thing I need to say is that I feel bad that I am going along to…

  • Naace Annual Strategic Conference 2009

    A pretty good conference with a good bunch of folk ( I can’t even say “for consultants and advisors” any more!) The various sessions generally hit the mark or provoked thought and discussion and rather than do a single post of it all I’ll summarise most of it and the break down a few sessions.…

  • The future of technology in education

    It is that time of the year when a gathering of folk head off to the NAACE conference, so I am ok the train up to Blackpool as I type. I have a few interesting sessions booked including a look at Microsoft’s view of where technology is going, the growth of ICT under BSF and…

  • Geeking again

    You know when you are a geek when you are listening to a podcast on your phone, you hear about a tool to allow you to post to your wordpress blog and so you have to go and try it. Well I did and here it is. It means that I can draft some ideas…

  • Web 2.0 – It’s Alive!

    It’s true you know … there is a real world example of using web 2.0 for student voice and parental engagement. I couldn’t believe it when I heard it was something so simple, easy to duplicate and it only took the brave step of one Head to think that something that had been in place…