Are you convinced about podcasting? I’m not personally, but then I never was much of a radio listener either. How about video-casting (pleeeeease don’t call it ‘vodcasting’)? There are a couple of RSS aggregators for video now, and they are both free if you want to play. DTV (Mac only) FireANT (Mac/PC) I played with…

Quite by accident, last week I fell into re-reading William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer. I’d chanced across a pirate online edition of it on Project Cyberpunk and before I had time to make a conscious decision, was too far into it to escape before the end. I actually have a paper copy of it, but…

With more schools thinking of installing VLEs next year, it is instructive to look at the experience of the HE sector. They are about three years ahead of us, and starting to see the cracks… Is the brave new world of e-learning envisaged pre-dotcom / UKEU collapse now in danger of degrading into a prosaic…

In the wake of the recent London bombings, the ICE idea was widely circulated by email ICE stands for ‘In Case of Emergency’: it’s what the emergency services will look for if you’re involved in an accident and have your mobile phone with you. This straightforward idea was developed by the East Anglian Ambulance Trust…

News that Empire High School in Tuscon, Arizona will become a truly paperless school next year has already done the rounds. It’s the first of a trickle of such news items that will become a flood by next year and cease to be news by the year after. What astonishes me is that this is…