People who cease to grow can’t inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself. (Daisaku Ikeda) I have always loved powerful words, quotes and parables. For many years I have collected quotes that are easily applied to students, to learning, to …
I will keep this brief but its been bothering me since I accepted my post as Director of E-Learning. The more I read about E-Learning the less I see the need to to define the difference between learning with and …
Since emailing Helen Foster at Moodle, I decided to write this post about why and how we selected Moodle. As this may be shared with other schools and staff considering Moodle as a potential VLE, I updated the content. “Go …
Its not my title, but Mike Herrity’s, but I wanted to continue the theme of his posts. There are three key factors that are driving our decision on which Netbook. 1) Cost 2) Cost only joking, battery life 3) Operating …
Is FLOSS / open source a viable option for your School? Well we a blended approach has had some significant benefits for us here at Hamble Community Sports College. As for open source is FREE? I don’t intend to swim …
Since stumbling upon the FLOSS / FOSS Open Source community we now actively seek open source opportunities when looking to innovate. For example, with the exception of our Schools Licensing Agreement (Operating system / OFFICE suite) our main ICT products …
For most of my youth, I heard about this annoying characteristic that I possessed: curiosity. When I was younger, it was “Ryan, curiosity killed the cat”. As I got older, it was “Ryan, I’m calling your parents” or “Ryan, go …
Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them – piling, grouping, sorting – to interact with digital information and media. Siftables …
