Encyclopodia is a free software project that brings the Wikipedia, which is one of the largest encyclopedias in the world, to the Apple iPod. Encyclopodia can be installed on iPod genarations one to four, as well as on iPod Minis and Photo iPods.
This sounds like another great educational use for an iPod - the pressure is mounting on me to purchase one. Download encyclopodia from here.
After a lot of looking and discussions with Dale I have now got a new theme on my blog, the theme I have chosen is Freshy 1.0
This theme allows a lot of customisation by individual users so I would recommend it to all ethink users, a couple of the key changes you can make include:
The theme is widget enabled allowing you to customise the whole of the sidebar components, including inserting html code and rss feeds.
So what do you think?
The findings from the ‘Summit on Educational Games, Harnessing the power of video games for learning’ organised by the Federation of American Scientists can now be viewed online. The summit was convened to discuss ways to accelerate the development, commercialization, and deployment of new generation games for learning.
The Summit focused on four issues: video game features useful for learning and aspects of learning that could be supported by video games, research needed to support the effective use of games for education and training, market barriers, and changes in schools that might be needed to take advantage of educational games.
Following the two comments on my posting about web2.0 technologies I thought it would be worth explaining why I included Technorati.
At the end of November I am giving a keynote in Derbyshire on ‘using web2.0 in the classroom’, it is a 45minute slot and I have decided that I will not be using powerpoint or keynote, I will run the presentation from either this blog or from my del.icio.us account. Given that I have 45minutes I thought I would spend 5 minutes looking at 8 different technologies, so my first question is which 8.
At present this is my list:
1 - Blogs
2 - RSS feeds and aggregators, including NewsGator and Bloglines
3 - Del.icio.us
4 - Wikis, inlcuding Google Docs and Wikispaces
5 - Flickr
6 - Technorati
7 - Podcasts
8 - Skype
I know they are not all web2.0 technologies, I guess I am moving towards social and collaborative technologies in general. Anyone have any thoughts on this list, anything you think should be included and if so what gets the boot?
Via Lifehacker I have found another creative use for Flickr. Gickr produces animated gifs using your flickr photos, just type in your username and the tag you wish to use then select the photos you wish to include and the animated gif is produced.
Then you just need to decide how to share it with others, either by linking to the URL or embedding into your blog/webpage.
At my last Secondary National Strategy ICT Network Meeting Andy Trif took minutes in Word throughout the day, the following day he emailed them over to me. After a couple of minor edits I asked Andy’s permission to share them with the other delegates at the meeting, he gave his permission but rather than just emailing them I decided to upload the file to Google Docs and allow the rest of the delegates to edit if necessary. The published minutes can be found here.
This got me thinking, prior to my next meeting with the Shropshire ICT subject leaders I set up the agenda in a Google Doc and planned to use this to take the minutes directly during the meeting. The venue I use for training has wireless access and I was able to invite all the delegates to be collaborators before the meeting. During the meeting 3 delegates editing the document live and the final published version can now be found here.
I plan to continue using Google Docs for all future minute/note taking at CPD events I offer from our training venue.
When Ewan first visited last April he said that I should get my own blog so that I can share what I am doing with a wider audience, he obviously thought what I was saying was worth sharing.
So I took on his advice and that is when this blog surfaced properly, previously I had just used it to work out how to use a wordpress blog so that I could support schools/pupils wanting to set one up.
I now feel very much like the person in this cartoon, whenever someone tells me something interesting, something that I think the wider audience would like to hear about I say ‘have you put it on your blog?’. This seems strange as previous to me maintaining my blog I maintained part of a website, but I never said to people ‘have you put it on your website?’. Is it the medium that has made the difference or my philosophy that we should share and publish more and more.
Fed up with using Google all the time for your websearches, well why not try out Ms Dewey for a new approach to searching.
In an attempt to see if anyone subscribes to my blog I am moving my feed over to Feedburner, the new feed will be: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tarannau
Feel free to update your rss aggregator to the new feed.
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