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FE and HE are looking towards more distributed campuses where their students have access to a number of resources from a single login. There are systems that already do this – Athens is one example that allows a single login at one institution to give access to a number of different subscriptions, for example to journals. The open source solution, Shibboleth, is being introduced for single logins and a number of learning platforms, including Digitalbrain, are being “Shibbed” ready for the single login. These will soon be available to secondary schools.

A post on the use of Skype recordings. I wonder how soon we’ll be using Skype et al for school use? Wouldn’t it be interesting to conduct MFL orals over skype…of course, it might be difficult to invigilate adequately!

The journal of online education. Including an interesting article from Marc Prensky on why we should be embracing mobile phone technology instead of banning it in schools.

An interesting blog from a PhD candidate (and teacher) from Canada with plenty of good discussion of the use of online technology in education.

The PC is now accepted as an enabler in a variety of learning situations; the laptop too but it is portable and arguably more “personal”, witness the success of the laptops for teachers scheme. The personal digital assistant (PDA) takes this a step further with true portability AND true “personal” scale. The evolution of the tablet PC may therefore seem a retrograde step, indeed this perception may partly account for the low usage in industry and commerce; but for education, we feel this is a significant development and enables technology to remove barriers and enhance the social dimension of learning, as Steve and Dale explain:
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T&W recently held their Primary Conference, more details can be found on their conference blog.

What is a blog?

Why would we want to use a blog in education?