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Dec 2, 2009, 5:34 am
Congratulations to Irish eLearning Company Aurion Learning and their client, the Family Planning Association (FPA), for winning a prestigious eLearning Age Award!
Aurion designed a groundbreaking sex... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 2:24 am
Alanna Mitchell asks the big question in this article.
So is school
- for the transmission of culture and potted knowledge, akin to filling a CD-ROM?
- for fostering skills that will serve society ... Comment - Like
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Nov 4, 2009, 7:55 am
So progressive Danish schools are doing what nobody else is doing - letting their kids take their exams using the Internet.
Check out the BBC's report for the full story - but here's a couple... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2009, 12:19 pm
While in Amsterdam for the Maemo Summit 2009, I met up with Marina Tognetti, founder and CEO of Myngle.com
Myngle.com is a global language platform, where teachers and students from all over the wor... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2009, 3:11 pm
That's the title of a BBC article telling the story of 16 year old Babar Ali - the world's youngest headteacher. Every day, he teaches hundreds of students in the village of Murshidabad in Wes... Comment - Like
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Oct 23, 2009, 11:31 am
Yesterday I had to go from Belfast to the East Midlands of England for a business meeting. The travel arrangements had been hastily done, and were not ideal. At 7am, the airport security man looked at... Comment - Like
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Oct 16, 2009, 1:02 pm
BBC news reports that the most UK police forces are to be equipped with smartphones by March 2010.
Gary Cairns of the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) explains that officers with smartphon... Comment - Like
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Oct 11, 2009, 3:41 am
I'm delighted that my social learning network, www.talkirish.com, won the Best Education/Third Level website at the Irish Web Awards last night.
A huge thanks to the judges and organisers and of... Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2009, 3:24 pm
I'm really excited because both this blog and my social learning network www.talkirish.com have been shortlisted for 6 Irish web awards between them!
www.talkirish.com has been shortlisted as:
-... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2009, 11:35 am
I saw this short article on NYtimes - a report on user retention rates on various category of apps.
Flurry Inc (an app-tracking San Fran start-up) tracked more than 1,800 apps and 75 million consumer... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2009, 2:16 pm
Apture released an updated version in May 2009. Main improvements are
* new interface
* smarter suggestions to your search terms
* much faster interface with a drag and drop menu
* qu... Comment - Like
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Aug 20, 2009, 4:06 am
1 Twitter - via Tweetdeck on mac and PC - sure, 40% of tweets might be 'pointless', but I think Twitter's great because I can see what other people like, when they like it. It's way mo... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2009, 3:06 pm
Earlier this year I ditched my Nokia N73 for an iPhone. Anyone who knows me, knows I have 'issues' with the iPhone. Probably because I was a power user of my Nokia N73. I had the bluetooth key... Comment - Like
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Aug 9, 2009, 2:39 am
That's the title of Tamar Lewin's NYtimes article on the changing face of education in the USA. But the title's a bit of an exaggeration. In fact, much of the article simply talks about ho... Comment - Like
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Aug 7, 2009, 4:01 am
The BBC's Chris Bowlby discusses a report that found that 'spending on information technology is more important to Britons than anything except food'. More important even than holidays abr... Comment - Like
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Aug 4, 2009, 5:18 am
I've booked my ticket for the Handheld Learning Conference 2009 - hopefully my payment went through in time to qualify me for a lovely free iPod touch! I'm really looking forward to getting to... Comment - Like
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Jul 8, 2009, 6:02 am
My browser is a key part of my working life - for searching, learning and organising. I'm a FireFox user. I have been since it started outperforming Opera a few years ago.
I love Firefox. I love... Comment - Like
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Jul 7, 2009, 10:46 am
I love books. I studied English Literature at Trinity College Dublin, and did an MPhil in Publishing Studies in Stirling, Scotland. I've just written and published my first novel on www.lulu.com. ... Comment - Like
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Jul 5, 2009, 3:28 pm
I finished it last Monday at about 9.30pm. By 10.30pm I was tipsy on a chilled bottle of Moet...about 12 hours later, I published the novel on lulu.com/uk. I love this digital world we lurk in.
Loads... Comment - Like
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Jul 2, 2009, 5:11 pm
I've just read 2 great articles (and one OK article written as a response).
First read Nicholas Carr's Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Then read Jamais Cascio's Get Smarter (Is Google actu... Comment - Like
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Jun 28, 2009, 5:11 pm
The Handheld Learning Conference claims to be the world’s leading event about learning using mobile and inexpensive access technologies. Over 1,500 international delegates got together last year.
T... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 2008, 4:49 am
January
Tóg go bóg é :)
February
Get first surf of 2009/bikini dip in the wild (and bollicking) Atlantic sea.
March
Do Saint Paddy's day in NYC...
April
Walk under the cherry blossom by the ... Comment - Like
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Dec 22, 2008, 3:15 am
Yeah so the old blogging lark has kind of dropped off in the last few months. That's what happens when you get sick, work crazy freelance hours, are trying to make a success of your own business, ... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2008, 8:20 am
When Londoner Jeremy Brown died, he had a tombstone erected, with the epitaph 'Here lies Jeremy Brown, born a man and died a grocer'.
Now either Jeremy was fierce disappointed with what he en... Comment - Like
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Nov 1, 2008, 6:55 am
I live with a French man. This means I have a French Fridge.
This is not a particular chic brand of fridge. I only have the teeny tiny silver thing I bought from Argos when I thought 'sure I don&... Comment - Like
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