A child starts planning the storyboard, while another begins cutting some archived film. Two other classmates seek out some images on the net. Each student in this group, like all those students who attend Islay High School, are using their own Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), which they bring to and from school to provide a […]

Andrew Brown has had more time to play with the Asus EeePC, on which we gave a video tour last month. He’s started to find a few challenges for using this in a classroom setting.

East Lothian are revealing what goes into a successful adoption of games consoles, this time the Sony PSP, moving beyond the obvious game-playing capacity into cross-curricular uses for the tool. Find out how they’re doing it from ICT Officer Tess Watson.

… on a blog. Happy new Year to you all from Connected Live, including all those who filled up my phone memory this morning when the network finally came back on.
Point of note: more Christmas cards and New Year wishes received via mobile phone than on cardboard and paper than ever before, with more […]

My esteemed colleague across the water Dr. James Frankel, flagged up an interesting story from the NY Times which featured a mobile with a ring tone of such high frequency that people over the age of 30 were unlikely to hear it. This way young owners of the phone could get away with having their […]

Tess Watson over in East Lothian spent yesterday playing with her new PSPs, but also managed to experiment with colleague Ollie Bray with using Glow on the portable gaming console. Another great excuse reason to get PSPing in your classrooms! Ollie explains a bit more about what the PSP project involves.

Cross-posted at edu.blogs.com

Thanks to the kind people at Core-Ed the video and slides of my last ’season’ of talks on how all of us can lead education and technology change in our schools, Local Authorities and organisations have been put online for all to view. There’s also a Google Video without the slides.

Every time I […]

Sharon Tonner of the High School of Dundee has been experimenting with several new technologies over the past few years. At this year’s Scottish Learning Festival she talked about her positive experiences of using mobiles in the classroom. She’s now published her brilliant full presentation, including audio, over on her blog.

The blogosphere is beginning to become alight with excitement on the Handheld Learning conference taking place in London.
LTS’s own Derek Robertson will be leading a seminar today alongside Marc Prensky on the potential of handheld games consoles. I’d have loved to take up the invitation to join in via Skype, but the time differences with […]

Professor Stephen Heppell has been looking into the horizon with his feet on the ground for many years, and his inspirational keynote speech about where Scotland stands to gain educationally in its horizons is now live on the SLF website. There’s also a great video interview with him which takes you deeper into some of […]