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Visit the worlds Museum collections from your desktop

The Art Project is a collaboration between Google and some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums. Using Street View and a suite of Google technologies, you can now explore the world’s museums and great works of art online. Continue reading

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OLPC (One laptop per child) transforms a continent

Tweet The trans-continent initiative in Latin America that started with Uruguay purchasing 100,000 low cost laptops from the OLPC project for use in its primary education system is being replicated across the continent.  Peru has purchased 590,000 of the devices, … Continue reading

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Prison Officer Education

Tweet I spent the morning with Helen Milner from  Uk –online at Hatfield Learning Centre.  This learning centre is different from most, it’s associated with the Moorland Open Prison next door and has a remit to provide accessible learning opportunities … Continue reading

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Agile learning, Agile Software development and the Mobile Internet

Can there be such a thing as agile learning and if so can it be used for formal learning. This post looks at the agile software development movement and tries to draw parallels for agile learning. Comments and thoughts welcome Continue reading

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Google – Seeding the Cloud

Tweet According to the  Google blog page linked below, there are now seven million students using Google applications as part of their formal educational experience (including my Son).  We can anticipate that this generation will expect their data to be … Continue reading

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