Posted in conferences on Sep 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
I took this photo this morning, on the way to breakfast. It seems like ages ago already. When I got back to town I called in to school briefly, dropped off some stuff and picked up some other stuff and remembered again about traffic and all that. Lorne already seems a long way away.
Three days [...]
Posted in conferences, tablet_pcs on Sep 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
Mark Whittard (Toshiba Information Systems) opened up Expanding Horizons on the last morning.
It’s hard for a hardware manufacturer to have something meaningful to say about education; even Apple struggle with that. And Mark Whittard mentioned as much when he began his keynote.
We got a potted history of Toshiba and their history (130 years!) and [...]
Posted in conferences, web 2.0 learning on Sep 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Matt Esterman’s presentation ‘Delicious Blogs and Wikis: Using Web 2.0 technologies to enhance Student Centred Learning (SCL)’ followed on nicely from the keynote after lunch about the changing world of the learner tools.
It was based around a number of tools: edublogs, delicious, wikispaces, some of my favourites in the web 2.0 world currently. It was [...]
