I’m introducing a new workshop to the Netskills oeuvre. It’s an introductory look at digital mapping technologies for educators from secondary to higher education and it’s called “Location, Location, Location”.
I’ve also started putting together a Diigo library on the information and tools I’ve come across during my research.
I came across this map created by Paul Butler, a Facebbok intern via the excellent Information Aesthetics blog. It’s a beautiful image, one that raises quite a lot of questions and I was thinking back to my days as a trainee teacher and how I might have used this.
This week, Google Docs, AR, Affective Context learning, mountains, my Dad and a moan about Spotify.
In order to regain a bit of impetus behind my blogging I’m shamelessly nicking the idea of a few other bloggers and producing a weekly digest of some of the things I’ve been working on, discovered or reflected on over the course of the week.
This is the first one.
I’m going all gooey about AudioBoo at the moment. It’s sat around in the perpiphery of my vision for a while now but in the last month or so I’ve started to see it as a really useful addition to my network of tools, especially now I’m a JesusPhone user.
Here’s why I’m gushing…
Not a hugely inspiring piece of ICT but this data poster has come from New Scientist via Digg. It’s worth a moment of your time.
It’s not often I write about bits of kit but I’ve been having a bit of fun with this wee gem for a few days now. The i-gotU tracker has been around for a little while and has previously featured on MerlinJohn but we got our grubby mitts on one last week.
Had an interesting day out on Monday at Nottingham Uni. Nick Mount and Gary Priestnall… in the school of geography were hosting a workshop on the uses of immersive technologies in education. It was all a bit out of my
The Guardian’s Digital World blog has highlighted the outbreak of map mash-ups tracing the spread of the H1N1 virus currently centred on Mexico.
