Posted in Ed Technology, News on Mar 11th, 2008 No Comments »
The £60m 2-year DCSF project has kicked off at our school. For the uninitiated this is a government funded scheme to put laptops into some of the most disadvantaged homes in the country.
To quote:
Computers for Pupils
Computers for Pupils is a £60 million, two-year programme (2006–2008) aimed at helping some of the most disadvantaged secondary school […]
Posted in Ed Technology, News, School Blog on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
DownloadSquad reports that Google has finally released it’s new version of Jotspot as the rebranded and updated Google Sites, all part of the Google Apps suite. More to come when I’ve had a play around with it. could be a real contender for the educational wiki crown which currently sits with the excellent Wikispaces in […]
Posted in Ed Technology, News, School Blog on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
DownloadSquad reports that Google has finally released it’s new version of Jotspot as the rebranded and updated Google Sites, all part of the Google Apps suite. More to come when I’ve had a play around with it. could be a real contender for the educational wiki crown which currently sits with the excellent […]
Posted in News on Feb 13th, 2008 No Comments »
The Beeb have an amusing news story about a school in Kent who are going to give pupils detention if their parents park in the bus lane outside school.
I can just imagine the arguments if we tried to enforce this at our school!
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Posted in Ed Technology, News on Feb 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
The Guardian has an article today discussing the rapid adoption of eeePCs in schools, apparently with Ministerial support.
I’m still impatiently waiting for my 6 to arrive, they won’t be ordered until the school’s trial of Wi-Fi is underway and as with all things in school that is taking longer than expected
Jonesieboy’s trials have […]
Posted in News, Web Literacy on Aug 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
So says the title of another BBC article on the cyber-bullying YouTube problem.
This worries and saddens me as I can see the quick result of this will be even more aggressive and restrictive censoring of the internet by school network managers. There is so much excellent material available on YouTube and other similar sites […]
