Steven Warburton

Great intro to the day – get the slides and hopefully the podcast will follow.

‘Bloggers keep journalists honest.’

Blogs as knowledge sharing tools – companies. 

The end of privacy in the background?

ALT-C

Here I am at the ALT-C workshop on blogging and RSS at Kings College London… Leave a comment if you have a question or anything else to say

Here’s the link to the wiki!

Here’s the blog!

AlphaSmart

I agree with Gareth about the potential of AlphaSmart and blogging. I’ve mentioned it several times to the guys there. Taking that exquisitely simple and inexpensive word-processing and computing power and coupling it to the ability to post to a blog would really lead to interesting opportunities across the curriculum. I’m not convinced though that they have the vision to harness the internet in that way. I hope I’m wrong but as their website doesn’t even seem to be compatible for viewing on a PDA …

Potty Etiquette

Imagine the scene. You are enjoying a really rather pleasant main course in a restaurant with picturesque views over the surrounding countryside. The ambiance is relaxing and the service already worthy of the twelve percent service charge that is to be included on the bill. Life surely doesn’t get much better than this!

However, as your mind ponders the weighty dilemmas of dessert choice, the fragrance of the kitchen is overpowered by an odour far more pungent. A quick scan of the room reveals no obvious source of the offensive malodour but a straining muffling sound draws your eye to a nearby table. Seated around it are three generations of what appears to be the same family, all encouraging a young lad, who is s*itting sitting on a potty, to deposit a stool. And deposit he does – again and again he strains, wafting a foul stench to the four corners of the dining area.

Caught up in what is fast becoming an ordeal, the other diners’ pleasure is being hijacked by the potty lovers’ table. Appetites are lost in an instant. An end may be in sight though as one of the elders takes a serviette and wipes the young hero’s backside. The potty is perched on the edge of the table like a trophy and there it remains throughout the rest of their meal.

I’ve been asked to write an article about etiquette on the internet in general and blogging in particular. I can’t get this experience out of my mind for some reason. It raises pertinent issues

I really like science

Mike Farmer:

For all this focus on ICT, blogging, podcasting, computers in the home etc etc I am really a scientist through and through.

It really grabs my attention when you read someone who clearly loves their subject and then writes about how ICT might enhance that subject’s aims. That is, for me, a higher order goal in the use of ICT, in contrast to merely tagging on a few ICT ‘bells and whistles’ to make a subject more palatable for a demanding audience in our schools.