12 February 2008
After a long silence Maxis (of The Sims fame) have at last announced a release date for Spore.
Spore has been gestating for several years, Will Wright the creator first talked publicly about at the Game Developers Conference in 2005. You can watch a 35min video of his talk on YouTube, below.
5 February 2008
There’s an interesting new project from the fabulous Creative Commons folk.
ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, [...]
30 January 2008
The Doing our homework post on the Lat Long Blog from the Google Earth and Maps team highlights some new YouTube video tutorials that offer up basic tricks for using Google Earth and can serve as inspiration for lesson plans.
24 January 2008
As someone relatively new to the media industry, I am excited by the latest trends on the internet. Social networks, wikis, blogs and podcasts are now all the rage, but have a long way to go before they form part of day to day life for the man on the street. I see massive opportunities [...]
22 January 2008
Sanako, a Finnish education software company, are teaming up with Nokia to get their classroom management software working with the Nokia N810 handheld. It’s not a phone but a wifi enabled handheld computer running Nokia’s Maemo flavour of the open-source Linux operating system.
See also: Sanako mobilizes class management with Nokia.
16 January 2008
Classroom 2.0 is US-based site which describes itself as a social networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.
They seem to be making good use of social software tools themselves, including a wiki and a blog. And the site itself is built using Ning.
14 December 2007
Radio Lingua offers a series of free language learning podcasts in different languages, including Coffee Break Spanish, One Minute Polish and My Daily Phrase: Italian. The focus is very much on short, easily digestible chunks (arguably too short in the case of the One Minute series). The range of languages seems to be growing steadily [...]
11 December 2007
Tomorrow’s Professor Blog is:
A partnership between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to create a forum for comments and discussion about articles from the Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List and about general issues concerning higher education.
The blog and the associated mailing list seems to be aimed at science and engineering graduates embarking on an [...]
5 November 2007
Moblearn is a blog about mobile learning from Geoff Stead of Tribal CTAD who has been working in the area for a number of years. Worth keeping an eye on. There’s also an interview with him about an early m-learning project on the Ferl website.
2 November 2007
Schome (not school — not home — schome) is a project which is exploring the use of virtual worlds to support learning amongst teenagers.
The main focus of work on schome is currently on the use of Teen Second Life to give people ‘a lived experience’ of radically different models of education.
You can also read about [...]