Wheelers eBook Platform
This term I was very pleased to finally be able to launch the Tower Hamlets Schools Library Services eBook platform, hosted by …
When does it become private education?
From the Guardian State schools left behind in iPad revolution http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jan/10/ipad-state-schools-funding-cuts This carries on neatly from my posts The Apple School and …
Who owns your downloads?
Who owns your digital downloads? (Hint: it’s not you) Link to the original article at zdnet.com, by Ed Bott 3/1/2011 An interesting …
Reader’s block
In a fit of facetiousness in a recent presentation on my eBook project I decided to come clean about the pros and …
Codec moments
This isn’t really eBook related but there are parallels. Many of our schools appear to have bought flipcams for use in school …
the Apple School
A senior member of school staff recently commented that in the future “we will have to bite the bullet” and assume that …
Tablet PCs. The next big thing for schools?
Elonex has recently caught my eye, mainly because the 7″ touchscreen Android tablet is on sale in Toys R Us amongst …
Survival of the fittest
It’s become apparent to me that I need to keep a close eye on individual eReader manufacturers these days. Earlier this year …
You shall not pass (sorry)
Well, the iPods came back again today along with some feedback from the pupils. The one criticism of the project caught my …
Smile, it’s only a two tier education system
If I was 7 years old today my parents would no doubt have bought me my own laptop, just as around 25 …
Using technology, parrot fashion
Parrot fashion was how I (somehow) scraped a C in my French GCSE. I was never literate in the language, but the …
The voice of a generation? “I’d rather give up my kidney than my phone”
Link to Guardian blog As a rule I frown on Daily Mail readers but I understand their twinges of outrage whenever I …
eBooks project summary
“Do you work for Apple?” was the rather intuitive question that I was asked by my first group of guinea pigs. If I’d been bag searched at Mile End tube it would look as though I’d just mugged Steve Jobs.
