Catherine’s done her homework on the Labour Party manifesto, and come up with this exciting promise that I don’t think has had much coverage until now: We will deliver our cross-government strategy for closing the digital divide and using ICT to further transform public services… By 2006 every school [will be] supported to offer all…

I’m off to Ukraine next weekend to see Alex and the crew. I’m a little nervous because not only can I not speak the language, I can’t even read the writing. To help me learn, I’ve knocked together a little quickfire quiz in Yacapaca. If you want to try it out, first read the ‘official’…

It’s been widely leaked that BECTa’s latest report, iced until after the election, will finally spell out the blindingly obvious fact that free, open source, software is better value for schools than the equivalent bought from Microsoft. So the first step is to move to Open Office when your MS Office license comes up for…

Finally, Yacapaca has an authoring environment for teachers. It’s not even in beta yet; we’ve labeled it an ‘alpha’ release, and we’re making it available only to a very small number of invited teachers. Nonetheless I’m excited, the more so because it took twice as long as expected to get to this point. We’ve been…