I have long been a fan of Open source and for about three years I have been a user of Open Office, in fact our school has migrated from Microsoft Office and later Star Office to Open Office.
One of the problems that all of the productivity suites have is the level of complexity for the [...]
The Digital Citizen Acceptable use agreement details six facets of behaviour that a digital citizen should follow to be an appropriate and respectful digital citizen. The statements are kept deliberately broad and generalised and provide outlines for suitable behaviour.
As we are working to implement this, I have been asked to expand on the different aspects [...]
In this weeks catch from the net we have Mathematics and data sources, infographic maps, web 2.0 tools and more.
1. The Maths Apprentice – http://www.mathapprentice.com/Activity/explore.html – this is a fun primary and middle years site for mathematics. Directed at the younger audience. Worth considering using with an IWB.
2. Kids online – me and mymaths – [...]
Accessing recreational sites during classes and while at work is an issue facing employers [3] and schools alike. The cost, in dollar terms, can be huge and in lost productivity, is significant. Various strategies are employed to manage this but these are often ineffective, draconian or dictatorial. How can we manage this issue better?
The digital [...]
The BBC reported this week that Online advertising spending has exceeded Television advertising spending for the first time.
They included in this:
E-mail campaigns
classified adverts
display ads
search marketing
viral ad campaigns
The TV people are arguing that this is a poor comparision, but symantecs aside, this report is indicative of a major change in the world we live in. It [...]
So who is more social on social networks?
Males or females? My first guess would have been a degree of equality, but it appears that as a male I am in the minority of social networks. (Source: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/who-rules-the-social-web/)
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The BBC posted a video clip from one of their roving technology reports. The reporter Rory Cellan-Jones is visiting a school in Kigali, Rwanda. The school has 3000 pupils and the students all have OLPC’s .
The clip shows the students engaged in various actvities using their OLPC’s as the report wanders around. Its great to [...]
Facebook’s recent success at reaching the 300 million users milestone prompted a very interesting and insightful conversation with a school principal.
Facebook and other social networking sites are for many, many administrators a bone of contention. Many look at it with a degree of fear and trepidation because of “potential” for inappropriate activity. This can be [...]
Twitter tends to be quite polarising. People either live and die by twitter or hate it. Many people have started a twitter account and never use it beyond the first forays and others dive in boots and all. For the latter, for the enthusiasts, twitter can become a key element of their social network or [...]
This image has been digg’ed for the last couple of days. It conveys a very salient message.
The background to the facebook post is a romantic liaison between two people. A matter that should be kept from the public domain. A matter only between the 2 people involved.
But a lack of fundamental understanding has led to [...]
