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Imagine a new house, office or school built along these lines: a game you have to solve before you can move in. Superb. They are living in a typical habitat for the sort of New Yorkers they appear to be: an enormous ’20s-era co-op with Central Park v - The collected game design rants of Marc LeBlanc
This workshop is an intensive 2-day curriculum where attendees work in small groups on game design problems. The design problems involve playing a game, analyzing its aesthetics, and then modifying it to satisfy some new design constraint (or to fix a des
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The BBC's Danny Cohen; the Guardian's Andre McGarrigle, Ian Katz and Emily Bell; and search engine guru Danny Sullivan discuss measuring online traffic - and whether you can chase it without compromising editorial standards - @ Future of Journalism: Is comment too free online? | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk
The Guardian's comment platform Comment is Free came in for some scrutiny last night in a session which explored the complexities of managing and structuring online discussion. Is comment, the panel of Guardian writers was asked, too free online? - Futurelab - From Shetland to South Africa – student voice go
A project where groups of students from around the world exam pedagogy in each other's schools. Colin Bragg participated in the project in 2000-2001, in the year between finishing school and going to university. He travelled with seven other students: - @Future of Journalism: Net video - how not to be like TV | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk
What can web video do that TV can't? And how do you manage it? - TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Markers of status: different, and yet the same
Just because status markers can be rearranged does not mean that they universally are. While we found tremendous examples of alternative status structures, the vast majority of youth that we studied used networked technologies to reinforce more traditiona
Jeff Jarvis and Arianna Huffington are sharing the blogger's wave in front of me now. We're on for "a love affair with the web", as Arianna describes her journey. You may want to read his account of this evening, to get it without the inadmissible errors etc etc. Or try Jemima; she types fast enough to get it all.
Were it not for the web Barak Obama wouldn't have been nominated. He would not, today, have got his 1,000,000th Facebook fan. The web, particularly bloggers, is shaping politics, is shaping our lives more than we sometimes care to appreciate. The Huffington Post, from Arianna Huffington, is part of the movement that has shaped this new force.
Years ago bloggers felt largely ignored, yet bloggers kept with it. Huffington was intrigued with the idea that despite the apparent 'geekiness' of the sport these guys just kept with it. But what she noticed was that the mainstream media suffered from Attention Deficit Disorder: they picked up a story and left it. The blogosphere suffered from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: they picked up a story and couldn't let it go.
The blogosphere is the second chance a story gets: when the New York Times decides a story is dead, the blogosphere can decide that it lives. It really is all about the conversation, giving a platform to people who were too busy to have their own blog, some well known others not.
Aggregating news from the Huffington Post's point of view (i.e. Iraq was the biggest error in American foreign policy, it;s not a good idea to drive your company to the ground and drive your company to the ground with multimillion bond shares.
What used to be left-wing positions are not central 'normal' positions in the United States.
Huffington realised quickly after the birth of the blog, a month in fact, that they took issue with the New York Times. Conventional wisdom was challenged on a daily, and then an hourly basis. As readers of the NYT read the Huff they filed extra pieces of information to the Huffington Post.
Contributors on tap
The Huffington Post has about 2000 contributors who know the password, and they are kept under Ariana's thumb with a 24-hour "correct your errors" rule. Commenters generally find errors within 5 minutes. They mustn't write about conspiracy theories. The rule of "Comment is Free but Facts are Sacred" sticks firm on the other side of the pond, too. Other bloggers have cross-posting rights, when they have a reputable blog already and occasionally want to contribute.
Editorial control is exerted through this decision of who has a password, and, secondly, by who has a "front page" spot and for how long.
Moderated moderation
Pre-moderation of comments on the blogs, post-moderation on the news. Pre-moderation is carried out by 30 work-at-home paid moderators, alongside community-flagging of comments. She is troubled by anonymity, and impressed by people's courage when they stand behind what they're saying and take the consequences. To help out on the crusade to have excellent commenters, she's thinking about having a monthly 'star' commenter become a blogger, where their excellent viewpoint is given a forum, photo-byline and everything.
Launching an ambitious idea
They started off with "delivering opinion" on the web. Fed up, though, with delivering to the choir, she launched in 2007 multiple verticles on other topics, such as 'Green' (last week), living etc, with the original 'politics' on its own page.
Recently, Perez Hilton linked to the site, resulting in a huge surge in traffic from an unusual demographic. 87% never came back. Some went off for a wee while looking at other verticles. But 7% stayed. They went off and found their place in the HuffPoist family. The Huffington Post is, slowly, becoming a newspaper. Soon it will launch verticles that are more familiar to newspaper readers: sports, books... Local, starting in Chicago, is the piece de resistance - a HuffPost-branded page written by and for local communities, with young new writers mentored by hit writers from, for example, the New York Post. There will be no reporters on site, in Chicago. The community and social network will feed the HuffPost monster, managed by just one human aggregator.
Is this muddying a really clean concept? No. These new sites and subsites have been incredible traffic generators. It's not a case of either the one brand or a bunch of verticles or, indeed, of web papers and print papers. Arianna believes that there will be newspapers, even for the youngest people in this audience.
Managing the confusion of roles: the citizen journo
May Hill Fowler, a 61-year-old woman, joined "Off The Bus", a project created with Jay Rosen, which was designed to push citizen journalists to the fore. Thinking there would be young journalists who would strike through, the HuffPost team were surprised - that the hit was this 61-year-old. Recently she caught Bill Clinton in an unsavoury outburst, not letting on that she was a citizen journalist. However, she was an out-and-out Obama supporter, with her tape recorder, the same as many others were out with their own recording gear. Nobody said that x, y or z was off-the-record. This was not a private dinner. This was someone speaking in a public space. She did not, argues Arianna, have the need to declare herself as a "citizen journalist". So, agues Arianna, nobody had the right to complain.
This is the reality of modern-day communications - everyone is a recorder, a reporter, a filmmaker. Worse than any conservative fears about what "these evil machines" are doing to society, is that the former-President of the United States did not think he was having a conversation with a random citizen - he knew he was having a conversation with a blogger.
He just underestimated what that means.
Jeff Jarvis and Arianna Huffington are sharing the blogger's wave in front of me now. We're on for "a love affair with the web", as Arianna describes her journey. You may want to read his account of this evening, to get it without the inadmissible errors etc etc. Or try Jemima; she types fast enough to get it all.
Were it not for the web Barak Obama wouldn't have been nominated. He would not, today, have got his 1,000,000th Facebook fan. The web, particularly bloggers, is shaping politics, is shaping our lives more than we sometimes care to appreciate. The Huffington Post, from Arianna Huffington, is part of the movement that has shaped this new force.
Years ago bloggers felt largely ignored, yet bloggers kept with it. Huffington was intrigued with the idea that despite the apparent 'geekiness' of the sport these guys just kept with it. But what she noticed was that the mainstream media suffered from Attention Deficit Disorder: they picked up a story and left it. The blogosphere suffered from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: they picked up a story and couldn't let it go.
The blogosphere is the second chance a story gets: when the New York Times decides a story is dead, the blogosphere can decide that it lives. It really is all about the conversation, giving a platform to people who were too busy to have their own blog, some well known others not.
Aggregating news from the Huffington Post's point of view (i.e. Iraq was the biggest error in American foreign policy, it;s not a good idea to drive your company to the ground and drive your company to the ground with multimillion bond shares.
What used to be left-wing positions are not central 'normal' positions in the United States.
Huffington realised quickly after the birth of the blog, a month in fact, that they took issue with the New York Times. Conventional wisdom was challenged on a daily, and then an hourly basis. As readers of the NYT read the Huff they filed extra pieces of information to the Huffington Post.
Contributors on tap
The Huffington Post has about 2000 contributors who know the password, and they are kept under Ariana's thumb with a 24-hour "correct your errors" rule. Commenters generally find errors within 5 minutes. They mustn't write about conspiracy theories. The rule of "Comment is Free but Facts are Sacred" sticks firm on the other side of the pond, too. Other bloggers have cross-posting rights, when they have a reputable blog already and occasionally want to contribute.
Editorial control is exerted through this decision of who has a password, and, secondly, by who has a "front page" spot and for how long.
Moderated moderation
Pre-moderation of comments on the blogs, post-moderation on the news. Pre-moderation is carried out by 30 work-at-home paid moderators, alongside community-flagging of comments. She is troubled by anonymity, and impressed by people's courage when they stand behind what they're saying and take the consequences. To help out on the crusade to have excellent commenters, she's thinking about having a monthly 'star' commenter become a blogger, where their excellent viewpoint is given a forum, photo-byline and everything.
Launching an ambitious idea
They started off with "delivering opinion" on the web. Fed up, though, with delivering to the choir, she launched in 2007 multiple verticles on other topics, such as 'Green' (last week), living etc, with the original 'politics' on its own page.
Recently, Perez Hilton linked to the site, resulting in a huge surge in traffic from an unusual demographic. 87% never came back. Some went off for a wee while looking at other verticles. But 7% stayed. They went off and found their place in the HuffPoist family. The Huffington Post is, slowly, becoming a newspaper. Soon it will launch verticles that are more familiar to newspaper readers: sports, books... Local, starting in Chicago, is the piece de resistance - a HuffPost-branded page written by and for local communities, with young new writers mentored by hit writers from, for example, the New York Post. There will be no reporters on site, in Chicago. The community and social network will feed the HuffPost monster, managed by just one human aggregator.
Is this muddying a really clean concept? No. These new sites and subsites have been incredible traffic generators. It's not a case of either the one brand or a bunch of verticles or, indeed, of web papers and print papers. Arianna believes that there will be newspapers, even for the youngest people in this audience.
Managing the confusion of roles: the citizen journo
May Hill Fowler, a 61-year-old woman, joined "Off The Bus", a project created with Jay Rosen, which was designed to push citizen journalists to the fore. Thinking there would be young journalists who would strike through, the HuffPost team were surprised - that the hit was this 61-year-old. Recently she caught Bill Clinton in an unsavoury outburst, not letting on that she was a citizen journalist. However, she was an out-and-out Obama supporter, with her tape recorder, the same as many others were out with their own recording gear. Nobody said that x, y or z was off-the-record. This was not a private dinner. This was someone speaking in a public space. She did not, argues Arianna, have the need to declare herself as a "citizen journalist". So, agues Arianna, nobody had the right to complain.
This is the reality of modern-day communications - everyone is a recorder, a reporter, a filmmaker. Worse than any conservative fears about what "these evil machines" are doing to society, is that the former-President of the United States did not think he was having a conversation with a random citizen - he knew he was having a conversation with a blogger.
He just underestimated what that means.
One of the benefits of having been nominated a fellow of the RSA is that you get tips of the hat to upcoming talks at the beautiful Adam Street House. Unfortunately, I missed the opportunity to hear Sir Ken Robinson's talk as he picked up his RSA Benjamin Franklin Medal. Thankfully, the Lectures Team recorded his every word and have published the MP3 for this afternoon's commute to London.
I'll let you know as soon as the video is published on the new RSA Vision site.
Update 1: You can see some young NUMU reporters finding out what is so great about being Sir Ken.
One of the benefits of having been nominated a fellow of the RSA is that you get tips of the hat to upcoming talks at the beautiful Adam Street House. Unfortunately, I missed the opportunity to hear Sir Ken Robinson's talk as he picked up his RSA Benjamin Franklin Medal. Thankfully, the Lectures Team recorded his every word and have published the MP3 for this afternoon's commute to London.
I'll let you know as soon as the video is published on the new RSA Vision site.
Update 1: You can see some young NUMU reporters finding out what is so great about being Sir Ken.
- TED | Talks | Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce (video)
Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness. - Unleashing The Tribe: small passionate communities
25 minutes on the moves in the 'real world' and how they have an impact on learning. - TED | Talks | Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (video)
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
They say that things in education go round in circles. I came late to teaching and later to ict. I got my first mac, a Performa 630, in 1995. Over the next few years I became a HyperCard fanatic spending many an hour creating stacks for use in the classroom. Many of these were drill and practise application, for practising tables, telling the time, cloze procedures etc.
After a while I became more interested in children creating with computers, podcasting, blogging, animation and digital video, I have played with them all. When I started blogging it seemed that most of my reading was pointing me away from drill applications towards creative projects.
Drill and practise applications became associated in my mind with worksheets, I used them but do not talk about them in the polite company.
I noticed some drill and practise popping its head above the parapet with the various games based learning especially the brain training type of application, but have not managed to get involved with this yet. This session I've been happy with Educationcity.com which provides a nice variety of colourful and attractive games for children linked to the 5-14 curriculum with reasonable record keeping. At first I was reluctant to use Education city, but once I learned how to target pupils with particular tasks I've used it every day with the children support in maths.
Lately I've seen a bit of twittering and blogging about tutpup which seems to be a new twist on an old song:
Tutpup consists of some pretty straightforward drill and practise maths and spelling exercises so far, although they seem to be interested in increasing the range of games.
What makes tutpup different is the fact that you play the games against other members of the community live. While playing they can see the progress of their opponent who is identified by a user name and a flag for their country, in my class this generated a lot of excitement. From a safety point of view tutpup is great, the help for parents and privacy policy are clear. Each child is identified by a colour-animal-number user name only, the site does not collect data from the children, teachers and parents need an email address and to give permission to the children. The setup for a class is slick and simple, teachers set a class code which pupils use to join a class. There is even some simple recording of scores.
I do not know who is behind tutpup, but Ewan has been advising the team on its development, given his knowledge of the educational use of social media It will be interesting to watch the site move on from beta. Tutpup seem to have the usual Web 2 speed of response to feedback, I'd an email within minutes of sending feedback asking for times to be added to the recording of pupil scores to allow me to see who is using tutpup at home.
I do not suppose I'll use tutpup much before the end of term, sports and activity days are filling up the calendar but I look forward to using it next session and seeing if it can give some legs to good old drill and practise.
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A showcase of all 2008 graduates of BA(Hons) Graphic Design and BA(Hons) Illustration at the University of Brighton. - Endless Ocean Game - Nintendo Wii
Beautiful game, where you become a deep sea explorer seeking out marine life, taking photos and... having the adventure of your life. Great contexts for learning on topics that are oh-so-familiar to primary school teachers. - BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | China angry at Google map change
China has reacted angrily to a decision by the internet search engine Google to stop calling Taiwan a Chinese province. - 22% would rather have their mobile phone stolen than their personal information
Stats on perceptions of security by young people As many as four and a half million* young people (71%) would not want a college, university or potential employer to conduct an internet search on them unless they could first remove content from soc - MJF School | Mobile Jam Fest
MJF has launched their interactive online creativity school. Learn from top professionals in the creative arts, such as Rebecca Hardy, winner of CoverGirls Next Top Model. Film, music, fashion, photography, machinima and the Millennium Development goals, - SIMILE | Timeline
Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Below is a live example that you can play with (JFK's assassination). Pan the timeline by dragging it horizontally. - http://bestiario.org/
It's a visualiser... of visualisers. One to damage your mind with - swissmiss: The Best Way to Present Yourself for an Interview
A superb YouTube job interview. It's the future - Thriving too: Polite Umbrella
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IBM have arranged a five day ‘Teach the Teachers’ course available to all FE staff, which will take place from Monday 18th August until Friday 22nd August 2008 – this is an excellent CPD opportunity for those individuals in attendance. This course covers the IBM System i Operator Course and will assist lecturers in delivering the new HN Unit. There are a limited number of available places on this course, therefore, places will be booked on a first come first served basis.
The course will take place in Cumbernauld Business and Conference Centre, Town Centre, Cumbernauld G67 1HU. To book a place (only one per centre) please contact Scott Miller by e-mail (ict@sqa.org.uk) or by telephone (0845 213 5472).
A week ago I spent a whole day leading a session on behalf of Socitm, the Society of Information Technology Management, where we were exploring the impact new media could have in Local Authorities and other public bodies. Most of those present were from the world of corporate IT and, as someone presenting a variety of tools they were likely to be blocking on their home patch, I was a tad nervous about taking them on this particular learning journey.
I needn't have been. Having explained in broad terms the main drivers of change thanks to this technology, I was able to explore some more specific examples of public sector engagement with the social web, from eduBuzz in the domain of education, to several health-related initiatives of the NHS. We saw how technology is taking politics towards the realm of direct democracy, and explored the potential for some of the mobile, ambient and participative media that citizens are increasingly using in their day-to-day (social) lives.
We worked through the afternoon seeking practical, do-able actions that these IT managers could take forward, without the need for engagement of the senior management teams or specialist outsourced expertise. They relished the task, and came up with some superb ideas they could implement in days, rather than months or years. Some of them have even put them into action already: take a peek at Stratford's homepage, complete with Twitter updates. Here are the rest, coming to a local council near you:
What are the biggest challenges in your organisation?
- Competitions for art work on Flickr
- Mental health blog
- Teachmeet-style therapy group
- Video diary of experiences
- Flickr/Google Earth mashups
- Things to do in the area, events, locations for recycling etc...
- Online estate agency for social housing
- Statistics in a glance mashup
- Graffiti tracking, crowdsourcing for finding the source of the 'tag'
- Mashups to reveal extent of disruption during strikes, accidents
- Crowdsourcing FAQs on a wiki
- Homeworkers can have real-time advice between 'virtual desks' (RSS feed to mobile)
- Twitter for mass-collaboration during crises and a blog to quickly publish information and provide an instant feedback loop
- Longitudinal e-consultation on complex issues
- Using Flickr to provide stock photography to local press and council workers (like this)
- Providing digital cameras to council gardeners to share the process and final result with enthusiasts and ciizens.
- Twitter private groups for quick intranet publishing
- Watchlist introduction for the PO, PR, Comms team
- Culture change through a "from-the-top" blog by the CEO
- Suggestion box for cost-effectiveness
A week ago I spent a whole day leading a session on behalf of Socitm, the Society of Information Technology Management, where we were exploring the impact new media could have in Local Authorities and other public bodies. Most of those present were from the world of corporate IT and, as someone presenting a variety of tools they were likely to be blocking on their home patch, I was a tad nervous about taking them on this particular learning journey.
I needn't have been. Having explained in broad terms the main drivers of change thanks to this technology, I was able to explore some more specific examples of public sector engagement with the social web, from eduBuzz in the domain of education, to several health-related initiatives of the NHS. We saw how technology is taking politics towards the realm of direct democracy, and explored the potential for some of the mobile, ambient and participative media that citizens are increasingly using in their day-to-day (social) lives.
We worked through the afternoon seeking practical, do-able actions that these IT managers could take forward, without the need for engagement of the senior management teams or specialist outsourced expertise. They relished the task, and came up with some superb ideas they could implement in days, rather than months or years. Some of them have even put them into action already: take a peek at Stratford's homepage, complete with Twitter updates. Here are the rest, coming to a local council near you:
What are the biggest challenges in your organisation?
- Competitions for art work on Flickr
- Mental health blog
- Teachmeet-style therapy group
- Video diary of experiences
- Flickr/Google Earth mashups
- Things to do in the area, events, locations for recycling etc...
- Online estate agency for social housing
- Statistics in a glance mashup
- Graffiti tracking, crowdsourcing for finding the source of the 'tag'
- Mashups to reveal extent of disruption during strikes, accidents
- Crowdsourcing FAQs on a wiki
- Homeworkers can have real-time advice between 'virtual desks' (RSS feed to mobile)
- Twitter for mass-collaboration during crises and a blog to quickly publish information and provide an instant feedback loop
- Longitudinal e-consultation on complex issues
- Using Flickr to provide stock photography to local press and council workers (like this)
- Providing digital cameras to council gardeners to share the process and final result with enthusiasts and ciizens.
- Twitter private groups for quick intranet publishing
- Watchlist introduction for the PO, PR, Comms team
- Culture change through a "from-the-top" blog by the CEO
- Suggestion box for cost-effectiveness
My granddad Findlay, pictured, was an officer in the Royal Air Force but one who never flew. It's only because of the stories I've heard second hand of him being stuck in the desert for five and a half years that I was even aware there were jobs akin to being Bond that one could apply for in the Air Force, Army and Navy. I even went as far as going through the rigorous application process so that I, too, could spend the prime of my life hiding in a tent, listening to enemies miles away.
Today's youngsters don't need secondhand stories of relatives that lived in a black and white world to see what exactly is going on in war zones around the world, thanks in part to the work the Royal Air Force has been doing in their homeland, the world of social media.
The Force's YouTube channel has relatively low numbers for each video, but a huge selection from which to choose. They explain, for real, what actually happens when the Air Force's ground soldiers have to go in and clear mines - there's no hi-tech, just brass necks.
The Force has kitted out several servicemen with cameras and storytelling skills, including this young Geordie gunner. They're about to kit out further personnel in Basra, giving an insider's story of what's going on through a new site, to be launched later today, RAF Frontline.
These might be part of a cynical bid to recruit youngsters to the world's most dangerous of jobs, or it might be a genuine effort to show them what they're getting themselves into. The videos are lightly edited, to omit anything that could be a security breach. Otherwise, though, the in-house web team is keen to show not just front line action but downtime, too, to show, I imagine, that life in the forces is not all about skiing, pristine beaches and drinks with the lads.
But where I really admire their approach, is in how an initial foray into YouTube has helped develop the use of video much more throughout the more traditional parts of the site, in their "what it takes to be a gunner" video slideshow, from civvy to gunner. It works well as a story.
Not enough, mum will be glad to know, to make me want to reapply, but a jolly good example all the same of the fringe becoming the mainstream offering.
My granddad Findlay, pictured, was an officer in the Royal Air Force but one who never flew. It's only because of the stories I've heard second hand of him being stuck in the desert for five and a half years that I was even aware there were jobs akin to being Bond that one could apply for in the Air Force, Army and Navy. I even went as far as going through the rigorous application process so that I, too, could spend the prime of my life hiding in a tent, listening to enemies miles away.
Today's youngsters don't need secondhand stories of relatives that lived in a black and white world to see what exactly is going on in war zones around the world, thanks in part to the work the Royal Air Force has been doing in their homeland, the world of social media.
The Force's YouTube channel has relatively low numbers for each video, but a huge selection from which to choose. They explain, for real, what actually happens when the Air Force's ground soldiers have to go in and clear mines - there's no hi-tech, just brass necks.
The Force has kitted out several servicemen with cameras and storytelling skills, including this young Geordie gunner. They're about to kit out further personnel in Basra, giving an insider's story of what's going on through a new site, to be launched later today, RAF Frontline.
These might be part of a cynical bid to recruit youngsters to the world's most dangerous of jobs, or it might be a genuine effort to show them what they're getting themselves into. The videos are lightly edited, to omit anything that could be a security breach. Otherwise, though, the in-house web team is keen to show not just front line action but downtime, too, to show, I imagine, that life in the forces is not all about skiing, pristine beaches and drinks with the lads.
But where I really admire their approach, is in how an initial foray into YouTube has helped develop the use of video much more throughout the more traditional parts of the site, in their "what it takes to be a gunner" video slideshow, from civvy to gunner. It works well as a story.
Not enough, mum will be glad to know, to make me want to reapply, but a jolly good example all the same of the fringe becoming the mainstream offering.
Take a look at my report on Connected Live to see what can be done when the ambition and 'can do' attitude spreads throughout a school community.
And don't forget to see where all this is happening, and the amazing countryside you spy as you make the 15-minute plane trip from Glasgow.
Take a look at my report on Connected Live to see what can be done when the ambition and 'can do' attitude spreads throughout a school community.
And don't forget to see where all this is happening, and the amazing countryside you spy as you make the 15-minute plane trip from Glasgow.
- MICHAEL WOLF | PHOTOGRAPHY | HONGKONG
Bringing his unique perspective on changing urban environments to a city renowned for its architectural legacy, Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, focusing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux. - Stratford-on-Avon District Council: Home page
Local council using Twitter on its homepage to provide news and links - Great Expectations of ICT: how higher education institutions are measuring up : JISC
How far are students' expectations being met by HE institutions? - Director Hamm sets up multiplatform indie
Hamm said his mission with Greenroom was to cut through the "plethora of shit content" on the web, particularly user-generated video, using Greenroom Digital's marketing nous to find the right audience for the shows. "People make the mistake of sticking t - 'Spore' set to mold the future of Web 2.0-enabled gaming | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
Game-makers now begin to really integrate the social web to their games: What may be more interesting though is how publisher EA has begun to integrate the Web into its latest titles--Spore included. For instance, in this new piece of software you can - Microsoft's internal social network - what's the benefit? | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk
This is what I could see easily integrated into Glow, the national schools network. Far more useful than 'traditional' notions of making Glow a big social network. TownSquare looks a lot like Facebook with employee's real names and photo, but principal - Facebook | Stephen Kearney
Politicians using Facebook to communicate with constituents - Stephen Kearney & Henley - a set on Flickr
Politician using Flickr
After Part One and Part Two, comes the logical triumvirate colon in the form a light bulb moment, courtesy of BrandDNA and Thomas Edison, who, apparently, was a great marketer and less great inventor, maybe, of the light bulb:
"I've not failed, I've just found
10,000 ways that don't work."
Thomas Edison
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