Monthly Archives: January 2006

JB

Jean Baudrillard

Wisdom of Crowds

Just finished reading the Wisdom of Crowds In order for a crowd to be smart, [Surowiecki] says it needs to satisfy four conditions: 1. Diversity, 2. Independence, 3. Decentralization, and 4. Aggregation. Excellent.

del.icio.us/dogwonder/

del.icio.us/dogwonder/ Seems as though I have been using del.icio.us for one year now – there are 358 items – oooh so close to one a day….. Great resource. Didn’t know what to do when it went down for a day. Only one issue with it, and not so much a fault of the site, more [...]

Grauniad vs Dogwonder

I have been working in the Kings Cross area for some time now (and no, I am not a lady of the night). I have seen the area change quite considerably since working here, many a time was I welcomed to my building by somebody injecting brown muck into their arms or offering certain ‘services’ [...]

Site review – Apple education

Apple education

Category: Tool / service

Year created: 2006

Overall rating: 4 out of 5
Content rating: 4 out of 5
Design rating: 2 out of 5
Navigation rating: 4 out of 5

Very good resource concerning ICT. This site aims to provide a guide to ICT in the classroom and the address the challenges faced by techers using technology.

The site has a good mix of resources and articles for entry level through to expert users of ICT offering guidance to new technologies/processes such as whiteboards, interactive learning and educational techniques. The fast pace of technological change taking place in the classrooms of the UK means this site will be extremely useful.

Wow

Structured Blogging

Begins: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 at 8:31 PM

Ends: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 at 8:33 PM

Location:

Link: Structured Blogging

So cool

2006

So 2006 has arrived. I only really want to post today to see 2006 in the title. So as I am here, I may as well do what all others are doing and attempt to predict what will happen in 2006. I have already made my feelings clear about prediction, so forgive me for being [...]