Dick Sblog

The International Science Grid This Week (iSCTW) sounds like an esoteric publication for grid computing geeks. In fact its offers fascinating insights into the ways in which new computing infrastructures and applications are being brought to bear on a wide range of problems. This week’s iGSTW carries a piece about ‘citizen cyberspace‘, about how, with [...]

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Jorge Luis Borges wrote, “there is nothing written that has not been written before”. I’ve just had an illustration of this in a newsletter from Futurelab. It describes one of their programmes, Digital Participation, which “is designed to devise, pilot and review practical classroom approaches that can support children to create as well as communicate [...]

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There’s an interesting discussion going on in ZD Net’s forum pages about the use of Google Apps in schools. For those of you not familiar with this bit of the Googlempire, it’s an online suite of applications that can be accessed on an anytime/from anywhere basis via a browser: it was one of the first [...]

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Several good things this week and one bad thing.
The bad thing was seeing the Windows blue screen of death when I started my pc this morning. Fortunately the beast worked when I rebooted it, so most of the day has been spent backing everything up and failing to find out why several error messages have [...]

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I do so like a nice bit of irony.
Here am I, quietly banging on to noone in particular about the need to develop skills of collaboration amongst our students, particularly in distributed working environments., when along comes Peter Kingston in the Guardian with a piece about an unpublished report on the Learning and Skills Council.
I [...]

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I recently applied for money to fund a project addressing the issue of work related learning. Predictably,  my approach was focused on distributed working. The growth in flexible/home based and distributed working is one of the most significant changes to working practice in recent years and with the pressure on to reduce travel costs and [...]

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