Category: conferences

  • Handheld Learning 2008 – Day Two

    Morning Session gamebasedlearning 2009 – March 20th, The Brewery – www.gamebasedlearning.co.uk Opening Address – Andrew Pinder, Chairman, Becta (bio) Steven Berlin Johnson, Cultural Critic & Writer (bio)lots of game mentions, lots of pictochatting, flash coughing, etcsleeper curve Danah Boyd, Social Media Scientist (watch vid)nice hat, young people do the unexpected, bedroom culture, social grooming, having…

  • Handheld Learning 2008

    Pecha Kucha tribal?? dr math rocksresolving bad maths record. high sms costs, low bandwidth costs. Mxit – South African company, 7 million users, software is free. So can Mxit be used possitively in education? ‘Dr Maths’ homework hotline using Mxit. help with maths homework up to grade 12. 14:00 – 20:00 sundays-thursdays. over 2000 kids…

  • Posting too frequently?

    Ok, my first post to this blog was about ALT-C 2006, and now here’s only the fourth post and I’ve just returned from ALT-C 2008. Do I apologise? No I don’t! It’s not like I haven’t been busy with other things, honest! I enjoyed keynotes from: Dr Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute,…

  • 2006 ALT-C

    The Learning Technology team spent the 5th-7th September in Edinburgh for the 2006 ALT-Conference. Much was considered in the realm of online learning, knowledge repositories, etc.