More than Willing2.0

Innovation is a damn tricky thing, a word really easy to use but really hard to evidence. I don’t think people on public social networks engaging in shared exploration who best to weld technology onto education are innovators. There are plenty of people who harvest ideas and information more than they do create it. Let’s [...]

Rethinking how we serve up presentations … Lunchlady2.0

This weekend, I took time off from gaming, and decided to see if I could use iPhone/iPad in different ways to present media to big TVs and projectors. I am wondering how to escape the traditional lecture, and if an iPad can be used a little like a server or an audience feedback system. For [...]

5 way to make life easier for the audience

There are ton of things a true conference road-warrior needs in their bag, if they are to survive out there in time-lag conference venue land. So here’s a few tips on how to get fit. 1. Haz your own wifi! First, get your own wifi via 3G. It doesn’t matter if you tether, get a [...]

Massively Mindcraft: Evolution

Some observations this week about the kids playing Massively Minecraft. This is a free, community build project, for parents, teachers, kids and anyone interested in exploring creativity in a multi-player game called Minecraft. We have an open invitation to help us build this community though the portal site on Social Media Classroom. In an interview [...]

Playgroups and the digital age

cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by brizzle born and bred In a world that see’s parents rushing to and from work, childcare has become a familair part of children’s lives before school, and television, that families once sat and consumed is increasingly used for playing interactive games, as developers increasingly invent [...]

Why managers need to design for emotion, not just reporting.

Build tools that let people do their job without interfering with it. This will sound contradictory to many managers, who prefer tools that make people fill out forms and tick boxes — after all that’s what managers used to do. We are trapped by the 20th Century, in that managers often like to use tools [...]

Google Plus vs Alannah Myles

Remember in the 1990s, when you wanted to sell a car? To put  the ad in the paper, you had to  wait for thier photographer (or stick with paying per word). Then you sat about for the weekend in case the phone rang while playing Sonic (also 20 years old). Your ad vanished by the following [...]