links for 2008-05-16

BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | One Laptop - hello Windows, goodbye Linux

(tags: ox eee asus)

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Scottish Education- What future?

The question in the title of this post is prompted as a result of a book I picked from one of her bundles. … The book outlines the history, culture, structure curriculum of Educational system. written in 2003 their is very little reference to the use of ICT in Scottish education.

links for 2008-05-15

Tips for Online Safety
(tags: InternetSafety)

Web 2.0: boon or bane for universities? | E-learning | EducationGuardian.co.uk
Web 2.0: boon or bane for universities?
(tags: education web2 ELearning2.0)

links for 2008-05-14

BBC NEWS | Technology | Staying safe and taking risks
Staying safe and taking risks online. Do we need two internets?
(tags: internet_safety)

SurveyMonkey.com - Powerful tool for creating web surveys. Online survey software made easy!
Survey Monkey is a free (up to a point) on-line tool that allows anyone to create professional looking web based surveys. You [...]

links for 2008-05-13

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google helps the web to go social
Google has joined the drive to make the web more social by introducing tools to enable people to interact with their friends
(tags: google socialnetworking)

Mobile social networking entices 5 million | Media | guardian.co.uk
More than 10% of UK mobile phone users accessed social networking websites [...]

Links for 2008-05-12

Digital Mavericks: Cyberbullying & Internet Safety

(tags: cyberbullying internetsafety safety digital_literacy internet eSafety)

Second Life doctors tackle embarrassing ailments | Technology | The [...]

The Lost Generation

Clever. There is hope.

This video was created by Metroamv for the AARP, formerly the American Association of Retired Persons, asking Where Will You Be @ 50? Challenge. It came second

Networked from birth. Toffs Rule OK!

Another type of networking this time. Nothing to do with category 5 cables or routers this time around.
Thought provoking article by John Harris in the Education Guardian on the role of private education and Oxford and Cambridge on politics and the media in the UK. Are the Conservatives are just reflecting modern Britain? A nation [...]

Facebook - it might come back and bite you!

Louise and I are working on a range of e-safety issues right now. One of the things we have produced is a set of draft guidelines for new and probationer teachers in our authority. This little video Youtube clip encapsulates a lot of what we have been discussing. Its a BBC 3 sketch that asks [...]

Highland and Websense.

Alan blogged about his frustrations of trying to access some blogging sites but had them restricted by the web filtering software Websense. Andrew sympathised about the problems that sometimes surrounds filtering in schools and made the suggestion that a request should be made to unblock those sites. All perfectly reasonable and understandable given the frustrations [...]