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Our increasingly Digital world

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 [...]

OLPC’s & NSW Netbooks

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 [...]

On the wire

Lots of interesting stuff coming through at the moment. In this update we have Microsoft’s security essentials offering and much more.
1. Microsoft Security Essentials -  http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ This is a security package from Microsoft. It covers viruses, trojans rootkits etc. Its free, but you do need to be running windows genuine advantage.
2. Apple Apps store – [...]

On the wire

Wow, four days off visiting family. Its so nice to have some downtime, but boy was my RSS reader full. Here are some interesting sites and resources I have found “on the wire”.
1. Storybird – http://storybird.com/ This is a collaborative digital story creation tool. worth a visit.

2. Multitasking research. This is some interesting research out [...]

Meet me at the Corner

Every now and then I will get some one who will contact me and ask to do a review of their site or push their product. For the most part I delete these. But Donna from Meet me at the corner asked me to do a review of her site. She introduced herself as a [...]

On the wire – Science resources

It seems to have been a week for excellent resources appearing on my desktop. This post looks at four websites that focus on the periodic table (thanks to free stuff for teachers)
1. The periodic table of videos – http://www.periodicvideos.com/# this has appeared in my blog before but is worth a second (or even third visit). [...]

On the wire

Some more websites that have appeared on my desktop this week.
1. I posted about the great color mixing tool – http://colorschemedesigner.com/ in the last “On the wire” update.

I got a great comment from a blogger about another tool – this one is by adobe called kuler. – http://kuler.adobe.com/#

2. Image Composite Editor  - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/ice/ – This [...]

On the wire

This week has started out being a very busy one. Lots of web sites, lots of email and lots of fun…
Here are some of the key sites I have found:
1. Colour scheme designer – http://colorschemedesigner.com/ this is a great site. This is a web site I will be using with my students. The site allows [...]

Leadership In schools

I receive from the University of Auckland a regular update on the short course they run (they are very good). The latest one was talking about leadership.
They stated five practices of Exemplary Leadership. They are:

Leaders model the way.
Leaders inspire a shared vision.
Leaders challenge the process.
Leaders enable others to act.
Leaders encourage the heart.

I have been thinking [...]

Twitter – visualised, where do you fit?

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 [...]