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Microsoft Kodu
I was quite annoyed and upset when MS binned off PopFly I’d created several ICT Club activities using PopFly and had the fun of creating and testing various games with some of the students. It was a sad loss.
The good news about the demise of PopFly was that they kinda replaced it with a [...]
Ultimate Gadge – Swap Watch
I’m a regular watcher of Channel 5’s The Gadget Show and every week there is usually something that amazes me.
But, on the rare occasion, something makes me stop and think ‘wow’
The feature on the DYAL Swap Watch was just that kind of feature!
It’ss a watch but also doubles up as a mobile phone. It contains [...]
DreamSpark
One of the most exciting things I’ve seen to come out of Redmond is DreamSpark.
In a nutshell DreamSpark is a selection of enterprise level, pro standard development tools that students in HE and now high schools can download and use for FREE.
When you look at the list of tools available it truly is a mindblowing [...]
Heppel on the future of education…
I’ve just stumbled upon this old clip from a Channel 4 (or it could’ve been BCC2) program on the future of education…
Still fresh and pertinent today. Excellent stuff
SIMS, anyone?
For anyone who’s ever used Capita’a SIMS
found via Edugeek.net
Twitter, it’s all about the me me me….
I’ve been a user of Twitter for several months now. I follow around 100 people and around 160 people follow me. I’ve made nearly 900 tweets so I guess I’m still small fry but definitely not a newbie.
Apart from the recent buzz about Twitter and the related band wagon jumpers who now all want to [...]
Microsoft's 2019 Future Vision Montage: Envisioning the Future
I love any kind of ‘vision of the future’ videos. Total Minority Report kinda guesswork but, for me anyway, inspiring!
New Year, New Toys
One of the most interesting, yet accessible products to be exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show 2009, in Las Vegas has to be the Minoru.
The Minoru, which apparently means ‘reality’ in Japanese is a web cam, but what makes this web cam different from the masses is that it’s a 3D webcam and the [...]
7 Things
Having been tagged in the 7 Things meme by Mary Cooch I now have the pleasure in furnishing you with 7 Things you will almost certainly wont know about me.
1 As well as being an avid guitar player I am a collector of guitars. I currently have 37 guitars. My favourite and main guitar [...]