I’m getting it in the neck from two sides at the moment. One or two teachers who identify with the Open Source movement have passed comments suggesting that our online services Paperless School and Yacapaca are somehow morally inferior because we are a commercial company. Meanwhile, colleagues in online publishing are looking askance because we’ve…

Doug pointed me to this discussion on wiki textbooks (MP3, 29MB). They are talking about interesting stuff, but it’s an hour long! In that hour, the three presenters could easily have created, edited and refined a really good wiki page that would have done the same page at least as well. I could have read…

Until recently the majority of educational blogs have been aimed at HE. That’s starting to change, not before time. Ian Usher from Bucks LEA is now writing about his experiences with Moodle, Fronter and Think, amongst others, in Changing the Game. Looks like it will be a really useful read. Welcome to blogging, Ian!

From Ruth Kelly’s opening address to BETT …one of the biggest challenges for technology to support Personalised Learning will be increasing home access. Yes, the ratio of computers to pupils continues to get better in secondary and primary schools. Yes, the number of schools with high speed broadband access is now up to 85%. And…