For generations school buildings were designed with dedicated television rooms. Equipped with carpet for comfort and curtains to black out the room I can remember watching BBC 2 education broadcasts on a 24″ television housed in a mock mahogany box. Read more
I have been thinking over the last few weeks about school based pupil email provision. I have to confess we have been considering investing in an advanced Google Apps for education (paying so we can apply a policy) system for pupils after a very successful model with staff. When providing for pupils a school really can not provide any sort of ICT system without some sort of save guarding filtering or quarantine policy and this is what Google charge for. Read more
I have decided to run a little poll to gather opinion on the iPad in the educational setting. The iPad is a revolutionary device not in function but on human computer interaction. A few years ago I tried to force an HP TabletPC into my education workflow. The concept was great but the practice and prize were limiting factors. Read more
DigMo! is celebrating our Twitter birthday this week and quite honestly it would be fair to say we have a bit of Twitter addiction going on. Looking back we’ve had more Twitter Apps than hot breakfasts (literally) but a few months ago we found the holy grail of Twitter Apps in the form of Tweetie for both the iPhone and Mac desktop. We counted down the hours on release day for this application and we weren’t disappointed. Read more
By the very fact you are reading this article you have probably already embraced Web 2.0 and the idea of embarking on running a Virtual Learning Environment isn’t going to scare too much. Virtual Learning Environments don’t excite everyone in education and nor should we expect them to. Read more
