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eLearning Newsletter Issue 3 – Google Maps & Earth Special

I have just completed the second edition of the SHS E-Learning Newsletter.  This issue’s focus was:

Google Maps/Earth Special!
MFL – Street View
History – Historical Imagery
Science – Tours of the World
Maths – Collaborative Maps
Further Reading / Ideas

Check it out here, or sign up for the next edition over on the right in the [...]

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e-Learning Newsletter Volume 2

I have just completed the second edition of the SHS E-Learning Newsletter.  This issue’s focus was:

Google Forms
Youtube XL
Flickr CC Search
Internal Training

Check it out here, or sign up for the next edition over on the right in the sidebar

Technorati Tags: CPD, creative commons, creativecommons, ELearning, flick, google dcos, google forms, images, newsletter, training, video, [...]

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Digital Leaders

I am excited to have been invited by Kristian Still to be involved with developing the idea of ‘Digital Leaders’ in school.  Digital Leaders is an initiative started by Kristian Still at Hamble College in Southampton.
To quote Kristian: “The Digital Leaders are a group of students from Hamble Community Sports College that lead innovative ICT practice and [...]

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Home Access – Free Computers & Internet for Low Income Families

Gordon Brown finally announced the Home Access programme last week. Organised by Becta this scheme will provide 270,000 households with a voucher that is redeemable for a computer along with 1 year’s Internet access, a suite of software and also support.

Families will be eligible if they have a child in Years 3-7, they have not been [...]

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Google Wave – First Impressions for Schools

Well you can’t have missed the fact that Google has finally unleashed Google Wave to 100,000 lucky testers, and with it a tsunami of hype.  I was lucky enough to be one of the 100,000 first wave.  Enough of the puns, if you want a bytesize explanation of what Wave is then this video is [...]

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Google’s New Operating System

So today Google announced that they will be introducing their very own Google Chrome OS.

This follows in the wake of excellent the Google Chrome web browser which was released last year.  Designed initially for netbooks, it appears that the OS will effectively be little more than a web browser.  The beauty of this is that [...]

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