As the working week ends at MGS, I found myself present at the Teach-Meet Roadshow featuring digital video, online publishing, digital photography, animation & podcasting. I sampled the podcasting workshop.
An interesting site which David flagged up was find sounds from where little snippets of music and sound can be downloaded to spice up your podcast. […]

The Edublog Awards are probably the closest thing we have in the Edublogosphere to an “Oscar” ceremony, but I wonder if I’m the only one thinking that there is something missing? What I want to know is, why there aren’t categories for pupil entries… and is it time to start a separate Awards ceremony for […]

A friend referred me to a very interesting site for guitar enthusiasts the other day called Chord Book It has many features, the most immediately useful of which for pupils is an online tuner.The beauty of this is that you can click R (for repeat) for each string and hear the note for as long […]

Roo’s been great at posting the audio and some visuals from last week’s panel session where I moderated on how organisations could and should harness the ‘Facebook generation’. He had quite possibly the best quote of the week: “World of Warcraft is the new golf”, courtesy of Joi Ito.

You can see and hear Roo’s excellent […]

Gordon McKinlay has been thinking about how we are going to work with the ‘Glow Groups’, small online communities in the national intranet. Jimmy Wales, at this week’s Online Information Conference, also gets us thinking about building communities from his experience as Founder of Wikipedia, and maybe offers some ideas as to how these Glow […]

Aware that stories which support one’s existing beliefs leap off the page, while others remain comparatively static, I was nevertheless heartened to see the quote in this story from a blog I discovered today. The blog is an offshoot of a magnificent website put together by Simon Ager.
Cross-posted to Alan Coady’s Musical Blog

An interesting debate about the following anecdote, cited from Jimmy Wales’, founder of Wikipedia, keynote earlier this week, has started over on edu.blogs.com: does this anecdote merely serve to bolster one argument over another, or does it present a common sense solution? Answers on a postcard:
Think of the last restaurant you went to. Did you […]

Want to hear what Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has to say about the state of information in the 21st Century? Stay tuned to both edu.blogs.com and Connected Live for more…
Coming up this week on both edu.blogs.com and Connected Live, live blogs from one of the world’s best and biggest conferences on the state of information […]