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Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• BBC News – Mapping the growth of the internet – March 8, 2010
• Tablets, Moodle, and Teachers – March 8, 2010
• Education secretary rules out tuition fees and calls for debate on cuts – Herald Scotland | News | Education – March 8, 2010
• Google Acquires Microsoft Office Collaboration Tool DocVerse – March 5, 2010
• New Google Wave Robot API v2 – March 2, 2010
• Microsoft to Double Down on HTML5 With Internet Explorer 9 – March 3, 2010
• How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement – March 1, 2010
• New Report: Active Ageing and Universities – March 2, 2010
• Twitter Handbook for Teachers – March 2, 2010

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• Podcasts: enhancing or replacing normal lectures? – February 25, 2010
• HEA cuts threaten future of subject centres – February 25, 2010
• Google Buzz Boosts Sharing On Google Reader By 35 Percent – February 24, 2010
• 10 Essential Chrome Extensions for Web Developers – February 24, 2010
• Mashups for Learning – February 25, 2010 – Mashups for Learning – “paper in the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Education draws together 5 pieces of research.”
• Podcast/Press Release: How to build a business case for an Open Access policy – February 22, 2010
• *Queen Margaret University* – February 24, 2010 – Open Professorial Event Lecture at QMU on 9th Mar 2010 – Professor Joe Goldblatt on delivery of world class events
• Free UHI seminar series opens with rural health discussion – February 24, 2010
• YouTube to Drop Support For IE6 Starting Next Month – February 24, 2010 – Wonder if many institutions still have IE6 on their desktop. Looks like they’ll be getting back some bandwidth if they do
• Seminar: Podcasting in Assessment: New Technology in Higher Education Research (PANTHER) – February 23, 2010
• 8 Tips for Keeping a Squeaky Clean WordPress Database – February 23, 2010
• Challenges, application and benefits of social media in higher education institutions – February 22, 2010

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• Is Second Life about to enter its “second life?” – February 22, 2010
• Marine scientist becomes head of the new UHI graduate school – February 22, 2010
• Scheduling Content Round the Edges – Supporting OU/BBC Co-Productions – February 22, 2010
• Raise your game – February 18, 2010 – Raise your game – “20 inexpensive ways to help their institutions climb the league tables” (from THE)
• How To Add Quizzes To Your Self-Hosted Wordpress Blog – February 16, 2010
• Facebook launch ‘Zero’ for mobile – February 16, 2010
• Google Buzz ‘breaks privacy laws’ – February 17, 2010
• Google Buzz copied FriendFeed’s worst features, why? – February 15, 2010
• Tributes paid to Robert Gordon principal – February 16, 2010

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• Sciencefeed Launches Friendfeed-Like Platform For Scientists – February 15, 2010
• Scottish science citations show global strength – February 11, 2010
• Values and educational technology: away from a Whiggish view – February 10, 2010
• Smartphone keys get quantum trick – February 9, 2010
• Investigation into Challenges, Application and Benefits of Social Media in UK HEIs – February 9, 2010

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• The Future of Higher Education: Beyond the Campus – a joint JISC, SURF, EDUCAUSE, and CAUDIT report – February 7, 2010
• Ready-made IT user documentation – February 5, 2010
• Facebook dominates UK mobile use – February 5, 2010
• Displaying a dynamic publications list from a repository on a staff profile page – February 4, 2010
• Google Apps for Education – February 4, 2010 – Some more reflections on OUs move to Google Apps from dougclow from OU’s Institute of Ed. Tech
• Bab.la turns Twitter into a real-time translation dictionary – February 3, 2010
• Symbian switches to open source – February 4, 2010
• Six SFC members to decide fate of millions – February 4, 2010 – “The SFC has come under fire after overhauling the way large sums of money are allocated for KT and capital projects”
• Extreme makeover – February 4, 2010 – “The Uni of HK has rebuilt its curriculum from the ground up to embrace ‘experiential learning’ and internationalism”
• Firefox Takes First Baby Steps on Android – February 3, 2010
• Hi-tech exam cheating increases – February 3, 2010 – Hi-tech cheats. Not just phones other technology includes concealed ear-pieces (via @BBCNews)
• Survey on use of Social Networking sites – February 2, 2010
• Feeding WordPress with EPrints: A Social Repo? – February 2, 2010

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• Eduserv negotiates agreement for Camtasia Studio for HE and FE – January 29, 2010
• A 16-year-old’s view of Apple’s iPad: iFail – January 28, 2010
• Plan for students who can't get no satisfaction – January 28, 2010
• Use of Web 2.0 in Australian Universities – January 26, 2010
• The Most Important Question – January 26, 2010 – Liked – The Most Important Question: under what conditions can a learner manage his or her own learning? (from Half an Hour)
• Bill Gates Hearts Academic Earth – January 25, 2010

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• STRIDE E-Learning Handbook – January 25, 2010
• Personal Learning Environments in the Cloud? – January 25, 2010 – A useful reflection by @GrahamAttwell on OUs adoption of GoogleApps and PLE implications
• Google Wave: 100 tips & tricks – January 25, 2010 – A useful collection of resources for Google Wave (100 tips, tools and tricks) [spotted by @hopkinsdavid]
• To create or curate? That is the Apple question – January 25, 2010
• Eduserv’s report into the use of SharePoint by Higher Education Institutions – January 21, 2010
• New forum for mobile learning – January 22, 2010 – @lisparcell highlights a new JISCmail list (MOBILE-SIG) which has been set up to discuss all aspects of mobile computing
• Google Wave Gets More Business-Friendly With Read-Only and Restore Options – January 21, 2010
• Tablet PCs to ‘take off’ in 2010 – January 19, 2010

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• French Government Also Warns Against Using Internet Explorer – January 19, 2010 – If you are looking to argue that IE shouldn’t be the default browser on your campus this is a good starting point #N
• Time For A Blog Revival? – January 16, 2010
• 2010 Horizon Report – January 15, 2010 – “identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry on college and university campuses within the next five years.” via @HelenHRSC @c4lpt #N
• Transforming Higher Education Through Technology Enhanced Learning book – chapter visualisations – January 14, 2010
• Too many cooks, not enough cash – January 14, 2010
• Reflections on CETIS’s “Future of Interoperability Standards” Meeting – January 14, 2010
• Do you have to do social media to get social media? – January 14, 2010
• Presentations and recordings from Innovating e-Learning 2009 now available – January 13, 2010
• What is social learning – and why does it matter? – January 13, 2010 – I’m looking fwd to consuming more of OU’s @sociallearn project. Nice post on ‘What is social learning – and why does it matter?’
• 3 Ways Educators Are Embracing Social Technology – January 12, 2010 – @mashable article ‘3 Ways Educators Are Embracing Social Technology’- Skype, Mobile and Twitter highlighted

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• Latest iPhone app lets users 'satnav through time' – Herald *…* – January 8, 2010 – Good to see ECA’s Walking Through Time project is getting some publicity
• Paradigm change needed to enable young people to deal with implications of transformations – January 8, 2010 – @GrahamAttwell blows my mind (in a good way) with a post dealing with technological, societal and cultural change in ed
• Use Better Tools to Be a Better Student in 2010 [Students] – January 6, 2010
• The mobile Internet will be bigger than most think – giant document (but only a taster) from Morgan Stanley Research – January 6, 2010
• The meaning of open – December 21, 2009
• Cacoo Makes Diagram Creation and Collaboration Simple [Diagrams] – January 5, 2010 – Looks like we’re going to see lots more realtime collaboration across the net. Cacoo diagram creation and collaboration (via @Lifehacker)
• Etherpad open source code now available – January 5, 2010 – To add to my growing ‘to do’ list. Setup my own etherpad server ;-) (via @c4lpt)
• The Netbook is Dead – December 30, 2009

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• UHI's principal aims to deliver a healthy next-generation university – December 31, 2009
• Reaction forces SFC rethink on knowledge-transfer plans – December 31, 2009