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Category: Technology
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Why do you still teach knowledge? With the launch of Wolfram|Alpha, you are going to find yourself squirming more than ever when asked this question at the dinner table. Einstein famously asked “Why should I clutter my brain with information that is readily available from reference sources?” And that was in the days when recovering…
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Google launched their own web browser, Chrome yesterday. It is likely to prove popular because it is faster and safer than Internet Explorer. Every website owner meets the launch of a new browser with a mixture of excitement and dread. They each have their foibles (whilst staunchly maintaining that they are ‘standards compliant’ and everyone…
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Having sworn blind I’d never attend another BETT, I couldn’t resist going to TeachMeet 08 there on Friday. And what a treat it was. Short presentations from lots of people knew of, or knew online, but had never met. My favourite presentation was Doug Dickinson promoting the free ICT support from IctOpus. Ignoring all the…
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I’ve given a talk a few times on the why of Yacapaca, but it seems a bit daft with all this technology at our disposal to go running round the country just to give a didactic presentation. So, today I finally got around to converting the ePortfolio I was using as a slideshow to a…
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