The BECTA report Web 2.0 technologies for learning at KS3 and KS4 has some great data from a survey on how schools in the UK are viewing web 2.0 in the classroom, and how children are using it outside of school time. And they make some really interesting conclusions from this, especially about the pace [...]
Moodstream is a new site from Getty images, and is a rather strange beast.
It takes images, video and music from the Getty archives and mashes them up into a constant stream of material, which the viewer can modify according to their mood by entering their ‘emotional state’: you can be hot or cold, excited or [...]
Cisco have just demonstrated their new ‘On Stage’ telepresence Digital Face to Faceproject, which brings live holographic presentations.
It’s pretty amazing, and makes me realise that a lot of the discussion about face to face vs web based interaction may well be redundant in a generation or less. Soon having soemone ‘live’ in the same [...]
To mark Memorial Day in the US, the LA times has put up a statistical analysis of the military casualties from the State of California to date of Bush’s ‘War on Terror’. Called ‘California’s War dead’, it provides a fascinating insight into who is actually doing the fighting, and of course the dying. The [...]
adobe have just launched a beta version of an online image storage and sharing service called adobe photoshop express
you are supposed to be in the US to sign up, but i just checked the box and it let me in
it is free at present, and the T&C dont seem too scary in that adobe aren’t [...]
Piclens is a new and very cool way to search images online from sites like google and flikr, like something from minority report
