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17 January, 2008

I recently came across this blog post talking about the web as a frictionless tool. This has become a reality for me over the past few weeks with my new Nokia N95 8GB. I have unlimited 3.5G data access so I can surf the web, use skype, blog (as i’m doing now with this wonderful tool, Wavelog), download podcasts, use twitter with an app (so no SMS charges)… Basically, anything I can do on a ‘real’ computer, but always-on and ultra-mobile. The key to this is the quality and amount of software availiable for S60 to customise the device. This makes accessing web applications a breeze. My current favourites are Wavelog, Skype, Twibble, Googlemail, emtube (awesome with a TV out socket on your phone, brilliant classroom potential!) Flickr and Mosh. These are all very easy to setup and use, and nearly all of the young people in our schools have mobile phones/iPods/whatever and are experts in using and even hacking them. Can we really ignore these social-media power houses any longer, forcing them underground? Nearly every student has all the resources your class needs in their pocket (whether they are allowed to or not). Use them!

edit – OK, so the links and picture posting didn’t work. Maybe it’s not quite frictionless yet. But it will be soon.

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Free Speech on Change bLog!

15 January, 2008

Comments are now unmoderated, scary stuff!

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Why Blog? Part 2.

4 January, 2008

One of the great things about the internet is that I’m getting the best training and development from around the world, not just in my geographical location, and I’m doing this through the very means that I am supposed to be teaching. The interactivity that is now available means that, perhaps, someone might learn from me too. Some of the best practice I have been able to copy learn from has been found on the web. Some of this has been on YouTube or from other people’s blogs (interesting to note that many of the ways I learn are blocked in schools).

People seem to use blogs in three main ways:

1. As an online diary
2. As a way of displaying news
3. A mixture of the two

I hope to use my blog as a mixture of the two. In the main, though, I will separate my ideas so they are more useful. If i’ve spent a day at a conference, it is probably more helpful to the reader if split my blog up into different posts covering different subjects rather than one big blog covering the day’s events. This means less reading through stuff that is irrelevant.

It was useful to read Your First 10,000 Blog Posts are the Worst as it gives people like me hope. If I’m 100% honest I’m not sure why I’m blogging, but talking about it certainly isn’t the reason. Blogging about blogging is like having meetings about meetings. With that in mind, I’m off to find something to write about.

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