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Do we have safer children in a digital world? A review of progress since the 2008 Byron Review. Professor Byron began her progress review in January 2010 and on 29 March 2010 published Do we have safer children in a digital world? A review of progress since the 2008 Byron Review
Month: March 2010
links for 2010-03-30
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If half US users will have smartphones by Q3 2011, what will school students have?
"But the majority of people in the U.S. still own feature phones — the "dumb" phones that are primarily used to phone calls and do text messaging. That will change in the next year and a half, Nielsen predicts. According to the company, 49% of mobile phone owners in the U.S. will have smartphones by Q3 2011, up from 21% now." -
This guide provides:
* An understanding of accessibility and how it impacts the classroom
* Definitions of impairment types and technology solutions for each type of impairment
* Guidance on choosing accessible technology solutions
* Resources for more information
links for 2010-03-29
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In an exclusive interview writer, broadcaster, actor and self confessed technophile Stephen Fry describes his passion for mobile technology, and his excitement at visiting the Mobile World Congress for the first time.
Preston Lodge High School celebrates 3 years of Prestonlodge.net
This month Preston Lodge High School in Prestonpans, East Lothian has been celebrating the first 3 years of Prestonlodge.net.
It runs on East Lothian’s Edubuzz.org WordPress MU blog system, and has grown to become a family of over 30 blogs supporting most departments in the school.
Starting with just two main sites – the main PrestonLodge.net site, and ‘Today @ PLHS’ – the daily notices for use in school, we now have around 30 contributing sites from subject sites, to yearbooks, to pupil web jotters, PrestonLodge.net is a vast network of contributors from around the school. By far the largest portion of Edubuzz.org, PrestonLodge.net has over 120 teachers, pupils and office staff adding to the site almost daily.
If you’ve been wondering how well a portfolio of blogs might match up to the needs of your secondary school, this is definitely one that’s worth a look.
Out of curiosity, I’ve just gathered some usage statistics over the 3-year period. Here’s an overview of page views per month over that time:
links for 2010-03-28
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A Is for App: How Smartphones, Handheld Computers Sparked an Educational Revolution
links for 2010-03-23
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Commercial e-portfolio offering.
links for 2010-03-22
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Prize-winning British game explores issues of identity theft and cyber stalking
– Uses game as simulation to provide learning experience, doesn't just "tell".
links for 2010-03-20
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DGREE is envisioning the future of higher education and exploring how technology and innovation can drive new models for student-centered, lifetime
links for 2010-03-19
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An example of a simple student e-portfolio in Google Apps.
"Hello, welcome to my portfolio. Here you will see a numerous amount of projects we do at New Hope Middle School. " -
Everyone needs help defending themselves against the wicked little robots that roam about creating spam blogs, sometimes by the thousands. Your WPMU installation can quickly become overrun and deleting these fake users can take hours.
links for 2010-03-18
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Based on the interest we have seen online, we at scorm.com are working on a wordpress/wpmu plugin that will allow a site to host SCORM (1.2 & 2004 4th ED) content with minimal effort. This could turn your MU installation into a basic training delivery system complete with tracking and reporting via our SCORM Cloud offering.
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Version 3.0 Project Schedule