Dick Sblog

Words from a man with passion about online educational collaboration

Entries from January 2008

The coming of a new era

January 30th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s nice to know that you’re not alone in your thinking.
I’ve written here before about the prospect of applications being delivered down the wire, rather than served locally. This model offers a number of advantages – you pay for the software as and when you use it, not regardless of how often you use it, [...]

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Tags: general rant

Extended Projects – a lost opportunity?

January 16th, 2008 · No Comments

In his article on Extended Projects, (Guardian. Tuesday January 8, 2008 ) Peter Kington discusses at length the problems associated with this otherwise very welcome development. Quite rightly he points out that a result of making the EPs into qualifications will be that they become yet another target – something to be exploited [...]

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Tags: collaboration projects

BETT 2008

January 14th, 2008 · No Comments

10 years ago, BETT was really interesting and there was a great sense of innovation in practice. For me, at least, the scale of the event was such that I could be guaranteed to meet friends from the UK and Europe and share their latest ideas. Then the developers took over and the balance shited [...]

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Tags: Other stuff