Badges? What are badges? I always thought badges were small circular discs that you pinned (carefully) to your shirt or jacket. But we now have digital badges as well. Educause has just released their latest update which discusses Digital badges – Seven things you should know about badges. This is the link to the [...]
For the last year, Harry and I have been working on the ipad applications book for high schools. The Book is called Apps for learning, and is published as part of the 21st Century Fluency series with my Colleagues Harry Dickens, Lee Crockett and Ian Jukes. This book has been a huge amount of fun [...]
Wow, the last two weeks have been frantic and the first thing that suffers is blogging. Here is my collection and finds for the week (oophs 2 weeks) 1. NetNewsWire – http://netnewswireapp.com/mac/ The announcement by blog lines that they are closing down, has forced me to move from using bloglines as an aggregator. So a [...]
Examinations and then reports take up a huge amount of time and I haven’;t had much of a chance to look at whats out and about on the wire of late. But here are some highlights: 1. Aviary Tools – roc – http://aviary.com/tools This is an online music creation tool. For Mac users, garageband allows [...]
Here is an interesting collection of websites that I have stumbled across this week. There is something for the geographer,scientist, musician, economist 1. Placefy – http://www.placefy.com/ This web site presents you with an image from a well place and provides a list of possible locations. A good stimulus or warm up exercise, as well as [...]
Happy New Year, I hope the festive season has been good to you all as it has been to me. Here are some New Years websites that may be of interest. Something here for Humanities, digital citizenship, Music, science, technology 1. Protecting reputations online in plain English – http://www.commoncraft.com/protecting-reputations-video Lee LeFever and the team at [...]
This is a stunning video. Ksenya Simonova takes an inspiring and variety piece of music (Apocalytica – Inquistion Symphony) and combines this with a visual performance of drawing. It is very moving as she displays in a visual medium the emotions of the music. She uses her fingers and sand. This is stunning. An excellent [...]
Peter Gabriel is an artist I like and admire. recently he has been involved in a project called We7 This is a change from the usual music download sites. Until now music downloads have really fallen into two categories – the legal, itunes buy and download and the illegal pirate sites. We7 changes this [...]
