Links for 2011-09-11 [del.icio.us]

• Digital Marketing How To Build A Tribe Online (Pat Kenny Today show, RTE)
  Ewan McIntosh on RTE
• Na Village Restaurant Reviews, Geneva, Switzerland - TripAdvisor
• Health « Happiness in this World
  Albert Einstein is reputed to have said that if he had an hour to save the world he'd spend 55 minutes defining the problem and only 5 minutes solving it
• Socialbakers Local Country Report for August 2011 - United Kingdom - Socialbakers
• The "Twitter Hedge Fund": Harnessing the power of social media for investment direction - YouTube
  On July 1st 2011, London based Derwent Capital Markets has launched the Derwent Absolute Return Fund which became known in the industry as the "Twitter Hedge Fund'. This highly anticipated hedge fund is Europe's first to utilize sentiment derived from real-time social media data analysis.
• C Learning Is... - YouTube
  Prototyping understanding of what community learning is all about.
• Is the 90-9-1 Rule for Online Community Engagement Dead? [Data] | CustomerThink
  The thing about the rule is that it infers that all users are doing something since the 90-9-1 all add up to 100%. The problem is that many organizations have profiles of users that are deactivated, past members, or guests. Also, not all members of an online community have access to the same tools, content, and functionality. So, to make a fair correlation, I ran two sets of numbers - one set accounting for all profiles in the system and one set with only the participating users making up the 100%. These numbers are below:

Links for 2011-09-08 [del.icio.us]

• Wolfram|Alpha: Mobile & Tablet Apps
  The expanding library of Wolfram|Alpha-powered apps provides immediate optimized access to
  deep computational knowledge in specific educational, professional, and personal areas.

Links for 2011-09-07 [del.icio.us]

• Online Recruitment - TSL Education acquires 50% stake in BrightSpark Education
• See Our Maths Tutors in Action | BrightSpark
  This is fairly dire pedagogically, but people seem prepared to spend money on it.
• Maths Online - Free Maths Tuition For All Australian High School Students

Links for 2011-09-06 [del.icio.us]

• Does Social Media Have A Return On Investment? | Fast Company
• A framework for social learning in the enterprise
  The social learning revolution has only just begun. Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards.
• Mount Vernon Presbyterian School » CENTER FOR DESIGN THINKING
  The Mount Vernon Center for Design Thinking launched August 2010.  In its inception, the scope of The Center will focus on four different grade-levels in the Lower School.  Eventually, its reach will impact every grade-level at Mount Vernon.  What is design thinking?  Based on a model developed by Stanford University Institute of Design, better known as d.school, Mount Vernon students will identify real world issues, collaborate through research, test their results, and produce prototypes to impact the world rather than simply consuming information, recalling facts, and never applying them to to the relevant, applicable global marketplace confronting their future.  Mary Cantwell, Lower School science teacher, will assist the School in starting this innovative program unique to Atlanta independent schools.
• The insider’s guide to mobile Web marketing in South Africa | mobiThinking
  In mobile marketing’s broader sense (short code campaigns and the like), fast-moving consumer goods and the liquor brands have been among the most active, as well as earliest to ‘experiment’ with mobile. Media companies followed closely as they had ready access to advertising collateral. The motoring brands have also started coming to the party.
  Many of the aforementioned brands are local offices of international companies such as Unilever, P&G, Coca-Cola and Revlon to mention but a few. Interestingly, the South African brands ran mobile-marketing campaigns (e.g. “Buy and Win”) prior to their European or American counterparts. This was helped by unified short codes being available in SA earlier than elsewhere.
• Chart: Global Smartphone Penetration by Region 2009-2014 (Source: eMarketer) - Chris Herbert, B2B Specialist & Founder of Mi6
• Huawei's $100 Android phone emerges as Kenya's best seller
  “Since the IDEOS launch five months ago, so far over 60,000 pieces have been sold and we are moving towards the 100,000 piece mark with its share of the local smartphone market at 45% in the first quarter of the year, making it the top selling device with February alone reaching 73%,”  said Huawei’s CEO, Herman He in a statement.
• Android Marches on East Africa - Technology Review
  Kenya's telecom industry estimates that as a result, the country's Internet usage, which is nearly all mobile-based, will grow more than eightfold from September 2010 to September 2011. "In one year's time, I think Android is going to have a big effect here," says Erik Hersman, cofounder of Ushahidi, the mobile crisis and event mapping platform that grew out of reporting on the chaotic aftermath of a Kenyan election in 2008.
• Project Masiluleke | Project M
  The first effort harnessed mobile phones to deliver a series of messages designed to raise awareness and connect users to information. The second approach was the development of a self-test kit with mobile support, so that individuals could determine their HIV status in the privacy of their own homes.
• ThingLink and Learn

Links for 2011-09-05 [del.icio.us]

• Rwanda: Interacting With the Tweeting President · Global Voices
  My Twitter timeline boasts of one of Britain’s richest entrepreneurs, Lord Alan Sugar, rapper 50cent and CNN’s Piers Morgan, but receiving a response from a president of a promising African country is just staggering, even to an experienced journalist and blogger like me.
• Mobile opportunity for learning in Africa « Educational Technology Debate
  Low-cost opportunities for learning
• Educational technology: The evolution of classroom technology
• Digital learning: Digital devices to replace textbooks
• Thesis // Mobile Learning for Africa - Jenni Parker
  My final master thesis on Mobile Learning for Africa, presenting every phase of the project, from the initial research to the final design work.
• The 3rd Millennial Modern Linguist: Developing New Pedagogies
  This article and its follow-up (to be published in the next SLR edition) have arisen from action research funded by the John Dickie ICT Action Research Award from Learning and Teaching Scotland. The original research report is titled “Using ICT as a Means of Supporting the Gifted in Language”, and shows how several new “social technologies” can improve writing and reading skills, as well as encouraging higher order thinking skills.
• From Learning Logs to Learning Blogs
  Can old and new techniques in ICT and teaching stretch stronger pupils’ abilities in language? For many years ICT use has been concentrated on providing resources for weaker learners. Differentiation has tended to be differentiation ‘downwards’. This action research project experimented with techniques in ICT and teaching to provide more extension for stronger pupils, to stretch their abilities in language. The aim was to find out if a balance of hardware, software, traditional teaching and ‘imported’ teaching ideas could lead to better written work, particularly in modern foreign languages. The thrust of the project was to encourage more complex use of French in groups of beginners (P7/S1/S2). In some initial practice in the classroom it was found that a judicious marriage between traditional resources and cutting-edge ICT provided the best results. This research project is therefore not solely about the technology but also about the pedagogy behind the technology.

Links for 2011-09-04 [del.icio.us]

• Want an A* grade: Do Art not French - Telegraph
  High achieving sixth formers taking modern languages such as French, German and Spanish are failing to be awarded the top grades that they deserve and risk losing university places, according to Kenneth Durham, the new chairman of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference of private schools.
  Students taking art and design, however, are twice as likely to gain an A*, even though a much lower proportion of entries in the subject gain an A-grade.
• Ofcom | A nation addicted to smartphones
  The research also looked at the popularity of applications, or ‘apps’, among smartphone users and found that just under half (47 per cent) of adult smartphone users have downloaded an app – with many people taking advantage of the availability of free apps.
  Teenage smartphone owners are more likely to have paid for an app download (38 per cent) than adult owners, amongst whom just a quarter (25 per cent) had paid for an app.
  Teenagers are most likely to part with their pocket money for games, with a third (32 per cent) having paid for at least one game. Music is the next most popular genre amongst teens with 22 per cent having paid for a music-based app.
  Adults are also most likely to pay for games (15 per cent) and music (8 per cent) apps, with maps/ navigation following close behind (7 per cent).
• Smartphone Adoption and Usage | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
  Significantly more young, Afro-American and Hispanic users use smartphones for their main point of internet access
• Lucy Hood: Smartphones Are Bridging the Digital Divide - WSJ.com
  National surveys conducted in June by the Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM) at the University of Southern California similarly found that more than 60% of Latino, black and young smartphone users often or even always use smartphones for their Internet connections. This use of smartphones for Internet browsing is far more extensive than by whites. For instance, while only 26% of whites have smartphones, they are owned by 37% of African-Americans and 46% of Latinos surveyed by CTM.
• E-reader ownership doubles in six months | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
  Overall, the highest rates of tablet ownership are among Hispanic adults and those with household incomes of at least $75,000 annually.
• Trends and Popularity of Web-connected Devices in Asia | Asia-Pacific Business and Technology Report
  In a report from the Wireless Federation, the smartphone market in Asia will reach 200 million users by 2016, double that of the 100 million level in 2010 and growing at a compounding annual rate of 12 percent. This constitutes over 32 percent of mobile subscriptions in the region, which is expected to increase to 54 percent penetration levels by 2015, according to Abacus International. In a region where PC access is limited, web-connected devices are the great enabler – giving Internet access to people even while they are on the move.
  
  According to the China Internet Network Information Center, 66.2 percent of these Chinese Internet users access the web through their mobile phones.
• Smartphone Ownership by Teens and By Sex | Text Message Blog
  When it comes to teens using cell phones, most would like to be in Italy where almost half of all teens own smartphones.
• Americans Age 15-24 Less Likely to Choose Own Cell Phone | Text Message Blog
  Among teens and young adults, why is it that Americans age 15-24 are the least likely to be picking out their own cell phones?  Is this the helicopter parent in action?
• The Infinite Dial 2011 – Navigating Digital Platforms « Edison Research
• Ayoba! Africa’s cellphone gold rush - The Globe and Mail
  In 2005, MTN had 14 million subscribers; now, it has 123,580,000, including three million in Afghanistan and about five million in Iran. All bets are off for its second-quarter report, which will include its World Cup bounty.
  
  Indeed, cellular use in Namibia and its neighbours has blown past even the wildest estimations – there are almost 500 million SIM cards active in Africa, with a projected 800 million in five years. Ronaldo, himself a refugee of the Angolan war, would never speak to his family if it weren't for the cards lining his coat.
  
  “We're talking about a 40-per-cent penetration level in every African market, minimum, and in some markets we're at 100 per cent,” says Andre Wills, of Johannesburg-based Africa Analysis. “Africa has an immense appetite for this technology, and the waters move so fast that it's hard to keep up.”

Links for 2011-09-03 [del.icio.us]

• 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
  While most 13-year-olds spend their free time playing video games or cruising Facebook, one 7th grader was trekking through the woods uncovering a mystery of science. After studying how trees branch in a very specific way, Aidan Dwyer created a solar cell tree that produces 20-50% more power than a uniform array of photovoltaic panels. His impressive results show that using a specific formula for distributing solar cells can drastically improve energy generation.
• The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees
  A problem finder in action
• BalancEdTech - Apps Taskonomy
  The iPad (or iPod touch or iPhone) with its apps opens many new opportunities for learning. At the same time, it offers a slightly different wrapper for older learning opportunities. Both can be worthwhile, but it would be a shame if teachers missed the former for the latter. And, if past experience and research is any indication, educators are much more likely to co-opt the new technology to accomplish the status quo.
  
  This activity is designed to help teachers think through both opportunities and to categorize those apps that lend themselves to either or both.
• Innovation Spaces | Think Quarterly by Google
• The Eight Pillars of Innovation | Think Quarterly by Google
• | Think Quarterly by Google
• A look at the Scottish tech startup scene - TNW UK
• Education Department 08/24/11 11:11AM, Education Department 08/24/11 11:11AM usedgov on USTREAM. Other Events
  The US Education Sec getting formative assessment VERY wrong.
• Transforming education for one million students - NYC's izone | Innovation Unit
  Watch this event with John White architect of the izone our very own David Albury and ARK Schools' Lucy Heller as they discuss the success of New York school district's Innovation Zone and how it transformed the region's education system as well as what the UK can learn from this inspirational example. Check out John White at the event by watching the video below.
• Arne Duncan | experiential continuum
  US 'formative' assessment isn't:
  
  These new assessments will use smarter technology; they will be capable of assessing students “by asking them to design products of experiments, to manipulate parameters, run tests and record data” (Dillon, 2010). It is the U.S. Department of Education’s hope that these new assessments will “help set a consistent, high bar for success nationwide”, and additionally serve teachers as “timely, high-quality formative assessments that are instructionally useful and document student growth” (Duncan, 2010). The new tests “will be computerized and will be administered several times throughout the school year, [therefore] they are expected to provide faster feedback to teachers than the current tests about what students are learning and what might need to be retaught”; essentially these new tests will serve both a summative and formative purpose (Dillon, 2010). Assessments 2.0 are, in essence, technologically advanced performance-based assessments
• Kindergarten teacher details ‘lunacy’ of standardized tests for kids - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
  More misunderstandings of formative assessment:
  
  Race to the Top put us on the data bandwagon and Education Secretary Arne Duncan has now called for more “formative assessments.” Even though Michigan did not win Race to the Top money, we are nevertheless answering the call for data for data, data, and more data, for children in kindergarten.
  
  I am spending so much time recording “formative” assessments that I don’t have time to evaluate the meaningful assessments and plan for instruction, much less time to actually teach!
  
  I now have to give a total of more than 27,000 check marks or grades for my class of 25 students per year. This is not counting the stars, stickers or smiley faces I put on their work each day.
• Guidelines for OER in Higher Education - Taking OER beyond the OER Community
  Like the 2005, UNESCO-OECD Guidelines on Quality Provision in Cross-Border Higher Education, on which they are loosely modelled, these draft guidelines are intended to help key stakeholder groups (governments, higher education institutions, teaching staff, student bodies, quality assurance/accreditation bodies and academic recognition bodies) as they assess the implications of OER for their future policies and actions.
• ED Data Express
  ED Data Express was first launched in August 2010 as a key element of the Department’s open government plan. The site consolidates relevant data collected by the Department from several different sources and provides a variety of tools that allow users to explore the data and create individualized reports.
  Version 2.0 of ED Data Express offers a new visual layout and provides the public with more dynamic tools interact with the data such as –
  A mapping feature that allows users to view the data displayed on a map of the United States;A trend line tool, which displays a data element graphed across multiple school years;A conditional analysis tool, which allows users to view one data element based on conditions set by another data element.In addition, the site has improved documentation and added the ability to share information from the site using social networking tools, such as Facebook or Twitter.
• Social Learning: Take Me To Your Experts
  the expertise directory.  While simple in concept – we know that these tools can be extraordinarily powerful.  Yet, despite the value and potential, this concept does not get nearly the attention that the full-blown social learning environment does.

Links for 2011-09-01 [del.icio.us]

• NESTA - The Startup Factories
• Now You See It // The Blog of Author Cathy N. Davidson » Now You See It Book Description
  Using cutting-edge research on the brain, she shows how “attention blindness” has produced one of our society’s greatest challenges: while we’ve all acknowledged the great changes of the digital age, most of us still toil in schools and workplaces designed for the last century. Davidson introduces us to visionaries whose groundbreaking ideas—from schools with curriculums built around video games to companies that train workers using virtual environments—will open the doors to new ways of working and learning.

Links for 2011-08-29 [del.icio.us]

• The Ring Flash Adapter
  The Ring Flash Adapter is a reflective circle that attaches to the front of your external flash. It requires no batteries or cords because it uses the flash you already have.
  
  Not only does this give your photos a soft, even glow, but it also gives you a studio quality look without a myriad of expensive and difficult equipment.
• Special initiatives
  ITU is launching a new public-private partnership effort to promote broadband school connectivity to serve both students and the communities in which they live. Connected schools have the potential to serve as community ICT centres to provide access to services for persons living in rural, marginal urban and isolated areas, with a particular focus on disadvantaged and vulnerable groups such as women and girls, indigenous people, persons with disabilities and youth and children.

Links for 2011-08-28 [del.icio.us]

• Are Canadian students engaged?
  What did you do in school today? has provided CEA with insights into how more than 63,000 Canadian students feel about their experiences of engagement in school and learning. CEA has created an infographic of these student engagement results in Canadian schools. We invite you to take a walk through a school to see the national picture of intellectual, social and institutional engagement in elementary, middle and secondary schools and classrooms.
• Learning Futures: Tuning a project
  A teacher (or small group of teachers) presents a plan for a project, including essential questions, learning goals, process, final presentation, etc., and gives the group their 'burning questions' - that is, the things they most want answers for from this session.
  
  The other participants then ask 'clarifying questions' for ten minutes (these should be simple enough to answer with a 'yes' or a very brief response).
  
  Then they ask ten minutes of 'probing questions' to the presenter.
  
  After that, the presenter 'steps out of the circle' and the rest of the group discusses the project. The presenter then responds to this, the rest of the group comments on the response, and (time permitting) you close with a debrief about the process itself.
• How Do You Create a New Normal? A Three-Part Path to Scale (June 20, 2011) | Opinion Blog | Stanford Social Innovation Review
  Flagship
  Because play is not universally valued as essential to education, it was critical to first establish the gold standard of recess in 27 cities nationwide. Why 27? Because major league sports have figured out it takes between 25 and 30 cities to capture a share of the national mind space.
  
  Broad Adoption
  The strategy used by Playworks to achieve Broad Adoption is training and technical assistance. While the Flagship model generally has more direct impact, it also requires significant fundraising. Playworks’ trainings, in contrast, cover their own costs.
  
  New Normal
  It is only in a New Normal that we really change the system, with tens of thousands of schools valuing play as essential to their success.
• 'Don't move on 'til whole class has got it' - News - TES Connect
  "One of the things that shines out of the high-performing systems is that they do fewer things in greater depth and don't move on with a topic until everyone has 'got' it," Mr Oates said.
• Clarifying, Probing... Burning!: School Sucks
  If I were that student, what message would this poster send me? It says that my teacher, who hasn't the slightest clue of how to appeal to my interests, is trying to prove to his supervisors that he is teaching successfully. It says learning is boring. It says learning doesn’t relate to my world. It tells me that I am a “medium“ learner. This poster tells me that the point of learning is to prepare me for a government sanctioned exam that will determine my lot in life. It tells me to stop wondering. Stop asking. Stop dreaming. Stop creating. That I ought to be an NC8. This is convergent thinking. This is how limits, lines, borders, and boxes squeeze the joy out of learning.
  
  If you want to put something on the wall of your classroom, here's a tip. Skip the government mumbo jumbo. Skip the meaningless, bureaucratic, meta-cognitive Newspeak. It’s not good for kids.
• Remove Line Breaks Online Tool
  Use this tool because spending hours manually removing line breaks sucks.
• 'Flexitime' school that rewrites the book on teaching - Education News, Education - The Independent
  Hollinsclough Church of England primary school in Staffordshire is the first in the UK to introduce a part-time policy for pupils.
• Transforming education for one million students - NYC's izone | Innovation Unit
  they discuss the success of New York school district's Innovation Zone and how it transformed the region's education system as well as what the UK can learn from this inspirational example.
• The English school system: an interactive map | News | guardian.co.uk
  How do England's schools break down by race, free school meals, appeals for places and numbers of children with English as a second or third language? We've mapped the latest data to provide a unique picture of education in 2011
• The ethical price of groceries | Environment | The Observer
  What will these new plastic products look like? With any luck, not like those low-grade bags that cut into your palms and have a tiny chance of being recycled. After 40 years of mass use, only 10% of the 300m tonnes of new plastic made each year is recycled. When it comes to the estimated 5 trillion bags made annually the figure dips to 1%. Nobody loves a plastic bag.
• Kids today need a licence to tinker | Technology | The Observer
  And if you can't see the difference, try this simple thought-experiment: replace "ICT" with "sex" and see which you'd prefer in that context: education or training?
• Scotland and England: what future for the Union? | Culture | The Observer
  The future of the 200-year link between England and Scotland has never been more hotly debated. We asked some of Scotland's best known writers for their opinions on the state of this marriage is and what independence might mean for their home country
• Steve Jobs's greatest legacy: persuading the world to pay for content | Media | The Guardian
  Jobs pried open many content companies' thinking, because his focus was always on getting something great to the customer with as few obstacles as possible. In that sense, he was like a corporate embodiment of the internet; except he thought people should pay for what they got.
• Little Big Details
  UI big stuff that's little.
• Scratch | Project | G) Bagpipe hero v2.0
  Bagpipe Hero! Created by Anstruther Primary 7, 2001.

Why Eric Schmidt is only partly right about science & technology education [#mgeitf]

Links for 2011-08-25 [del.icio.us]

• Preloaded - We do nice things
  An award-winning games studio focusing on arts, entertainment and education
• littlebighistory's Channel - YouTube
  History students using LittleBigPlanet as a game=making tool to explain historical questions.
• Thinglink — Make Your Images Interactive
• conscious competence learning model matrix- unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence
  It's what you don't know you don't know that poses the greatest risk
• British Prime Minister Does a 180 on Internet Censorship | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  ...when people are using social media for violence we need to stop them. So we are working with the Police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality. I have also asked the police if they need any other new powers.
• Twitter Blog: The Tweets Must Flow
  Our goal is to instantly connect people everywhere to what is most meaningful to them. For this to happen, freedom of expression is essential. Some Tweets may facilitate positive change in a repressed country, some make us laugh, some make us think, some downright anger a vast majority of users. We don't always agree with the things people choose to tweet, but we keep the information flowing irrespective of any view we may have about the content.
• Twitter / @twitter/freedom-of-expression
• [iDC] Inspiring Questions
• Open University research explodes myth of 'digital native'
  So, in conclusion, first, there’s no evidence of a clear-cut digital divide. Use of technology varies with age, but it does so predictably, over the whole age span. And secondly, although younger people are more likely to be positive about technology, there is evidence that a good attitude to technology, at any age, correlates with good study habits.
• Shakespeak - Home
• Eight Ways to Communicate Your Strategy More Effectively - Georgia Everse - Harvard Business Review
  Here are just a few communications approaches that will help you effectively reach your employees and encourage behaviors that advance your strategy and improve your results.

Links for 2011-08-23 [del.icio.us]

• Parramatta Joyfuil learning spaces

Links for 2011-08-17 [del.icio.us]

• Penguin Satisfied with Competitive First Half
  E-book sales helped to offset some of the Borders sales loss, with e-book sales doubling in the U.S. and increasing 128% worldwide; e-books represented 14% of Penguin’s global revenue.
• Numerology: The Price Of Piracy | Fast Company
  23.8% of Internet traffic involves digital theft of copyrighted work. The U.S. is No.1 in illegal downloads.
  The average iPod owned by a 14- to 24-YEAR-OLD contains 1,770 songs. Of those songs, 842 have been illegal acquired, according to a British study.
  95% of all online music downloads are illegal.
  In 2010, Lady Gaga's music was the MOST illegally downloaded & BRITNEY Spear's "Telephone" was the No.1 illegally downloaded track.
  The movie-piraxy black market is vauled at $25 billion.
  Legit DVD sales have declined 27% since 2004.
  Avatar has been illegally downloaded more then 16,580,000times, making it the most-pirated film of 2010.

Links for 2011-08-16 [del.icio.us]

• mlcmasterplan - home
• The New York Times - Schools For Tomorrow - Mission

Links for 2011-08-15 [del.icio.us]

• Home [OCLC]
• Citadel: Telling An Epic Tale:Welcome to the Citadel
• Consolarium » Land of Me at Port Ellen PS: Planning for good learning 1/5
• FT Alphaville » Bank of England: “substantial downward risks”
  Bad graphs: "we don't have a clue"

TEDxLondon: The Problem Finders at The Education Revolution

Links for 2011-08-14 [del.icio.us]

• Triptico
  Interactive Resources for Imaginative Teachers
• Convention on the Rights of the Child - not for USA or Somalia
  As of November 2009, 194 countries have ratified it,[1] including every member of the United Nations except Somalia and the United States of America.[4][6]

Links for 2011-08-13 [del.icio.us]

• Download DxO Optics Pro for Mac - Image enhancement for RAW and JPEG files. MacUpdate.com
  DxO Optics Pro is a unique application that automatically increases the quality of images taken with supported Digital SLRs and Bridge Cameras, whether in JPEG or RAW format.
• Programme : JISC
  We are pleased to announce that this will be given by Ewan McIntosh of notosh.com. Ewan is a teacher, speaker and investor, regarded as one of Europe’s leading voices in developing engaging experiences through digital media for public services. He has worked on and created high profile digital coups in the past 10 years; led the first high school blogging and podcasting in Europe; created the world’s first iPad investment fund; and has managed the SNP’s digital re-election campaign to the Scottish Government. He still works with school teachers and students every week.

Links for 2011-08-12 [del.icio.us]

• The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore for iPad on the iTunes App Store

Links for 2011-08-11 [del.icio.us]

• Catholic Education Office Sydney - Curriculum
• Subject to change: should primary schools structure learning around subjects or themes?  | Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning
  Subject to change: should primary schools structure learning around subjects or themes?
• Catholic Education Office Sydney - Position Papers and Policy Documents
• SNP open to change on GLOW… « Mimanifesto – Jaye’s weblog
  Education Minister engaging in Twitter discussion on education policy issues - ace!

Links for 2011-08-09 [del.icio.us]

• The Thinking Digital Conference in 90 Seconds on Vimeo
  My thoughts, amongst others, on what makes TDC such a special event.
• Bolidea
• Tutor Casa « Bolidea
  Tutor casa aims to locally connect tutors with anyone who needs tutoring services. The site allows tutors to create a profile and set their availabilities. People needing tutoring services can then easy search and find local tutors who can help them in various subjects.

Links for 2011-08-03 [del.icio.us]

• House designed for skating ... inside
  You'll have to go to Paris to see it and you can only skate it if you're a professional.
  
  The PAS House was designed so that everything on the inside, from the walls to the furniture, can be skated on.
  
  It's a curvy indoor playground where you can get air in the lounge, carve your way over the kitchen and grind along bench tops, and nobody will tell you to go and play outside.
• The Rebel Road: TravelENG: Barriers
  A poem based on my keynote - a first for me, I think
• Home Tutoring - Find Local Tutors - The Biggest Directory of Local Tutors - Acadam.com

Links for 2011-08-01 [del.icio.us]

• presenting: IT ONLY TAKES A SPARK: REVOLUTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD :::::: VUVOX
  student example of data viz
• presenting: HISTORYTEACHERS MUSIC ANALYSIS :::::: VUVOX
  Teacher example of data viz
• Many Eyes : Customizing Scatterplot
  teacher example of data viz

Links for 2011-07-31 [del.icio.us]

• TEDxKids@Sunderland - a set on Flickr