http://www.pegasus18.com/neil - / rants / rambling / elearning / - Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:57:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's been a fair bit published/blogged/tweeted about Sir Jim Rose's Blueprint for a new primary curriculum. This report is due out in April 2009 but as been 'leaked' and reported widely. The recent press storm and associated knicker wetting is summed up by some great headlines: Pupils to study Twitter and blogs ... http://www.pegasus18.com/neil/index.php/2009/03/30/twitter-for-teaching-dont-believe-what-you-read/ Seeing Steve Wheeler's Emporer's New clothes blog post reminded me of a little something we produced many years ago - now rebadged as The Vice Chancellor's new VLE. Thanks to the wonder of Google Desktop I was able to find the original from about 8 years ago based on the experiences we had ... http://www.pegasus18.com/neil/index.php/2008/11/27/the-vice-chancellors-new-vle/ Ed Bremner asked how the EEE joins up with Google Docs, and the answer is.......simply excellent. In "easy mode" the EEE offers the user a series of tabbed pages (Favorites, Internet, Work, Learn, Play and Settings) instead of the usual Desktop type interface. The Internet tab has a Google Docs ... http://www.pegasus18.com/neil/index.php/2008/11/07/asus-googledocs-and-gprs/ So........the first thing to do with the ASUS was to get online with it - and at this point I found an issue connecting to Eduroam. The ASUS connected straight away to my network at home but getting it to work with Eduroam took a couple of days of trial ... http://www.pegasus18.com/neil/index.php/2008/11/04/asus-eee-1000-and-eduroam-at-last/ It's surprising where stuff turns up. Yesterday I blogged for the first time in ages as I'm trying to record my experiences moving into an ASUS EEE PC, using LINUX and reducing the bloated digital lifestyle I currently have. What started off as a simple blog post came back to haunt ... http://www.pegasus18.com/neil/index.php/2008/10/31/syndication-forgetfulness-and-rss-feeds/ Having been involved in a number of projects using open source software (such as UsPaCe using Elgg, UPlace using DSpace and the BJHEinFE using Open Journal System) I got the thinking that it could be possible to move over to a totally OS lifestyle. Discussion with JISC's Lawrie Phipps and my own experience ... http://www.pegasus18.com/neil/index.php/2008/10/30/living-the-open-source-lifestyle/ A major milestone reached - The Web2Rights IP Toolkit is launched  The Web2Rights IP Toolkit for JISC funded projects engaging with next generation technologies, services and software is now available online at: www.web2rights.org.uk  Users can: Download or review the individual resources Download the ZIP files containing the separate sections Download or view the ... http://www.pegasus18.com/neil/index.php/2008/06/20/web2rights-ipr-toolkit/ There's much around about Edupunk. Ok, I'm a late comer to the debate (though as this blog is very much in a backwater I'll use debate as a very loose term) and http://edupunk.org/ has links to it all. And there's the obligatory youtube vid. It's been interesting following the blog posts on ... http://www.pegasus18.com/neil/index.php/2008/06/13/edupunk/ It's about time I blogged, as it's ironic that the day job (that involves Web 2.0 stuff) is getting hectic and sorting this (and the other blog) ends up at the bottom of the pile.  Whilst waiting for the Curverider boys to release Elgg 1.0 I came across this article on ... http://www.pegasus18.com/neil/index.php/2008/06/12/web-30-definition/ When it comes to micro blogging I have to admit it's not really held my attention. I was too late for Jaiku and I never really spent the time to fully exploit Twitter. We have, though,  been spending a lot of time working with Elgg as part of the community area for ... http://www.pegasus18.com/neil/index.php/2008/02/25/elggvoices/