Report from Times Higher which covers recent announcements of Marc Prensky, due to speak in Bournemouth University next week, and Martin Hall, invited speaker at the ALT-C Conference this week. My summary … the “nouns are changing but the verbs remain the same”. See this Amp at http://bit.ly/d3hIF3
The 17th annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology ALT-C 2010 has just ended. And though I did not attend, I was fairly fully engaged with the keynote and invited sessions that were streamed via CrowdVine in Elluminate and will be made available on the ALT-C channel on YouTube. Reflection starts now and I thought that I would use my newest e-learning gadget, my [LiveScribe Echo](http://www.livescribe.com/uk/) pen, and trial copy of [MyScript for LiveScribe](http://www....
Geek heaven … ShowOff — a keynote/powerpoint alternative that’s a Sinatra web app with slide markup in Markdown and special effects in JavaScript. I’ve got to try this! From Scott Chacon, GitHubber and author of Pro Git. Mentioned during an interview on InfoQ. See this Amp at [http://bit.ly/aTNldj](http://bit.ly/aTNldj)
One advantage of not being at the ALT-C conference is that I can only attend the keynotes and invited speaker sessions on Eluminate. I therefore have a lot of time to watch the twitter stream and curate the links. Cloudworks has a “cloud” for all the talks at this year’s ALT-C gathering (in Nottingham) and I’ve been busy adding references and links to the cloud for Donald Clark’s keynote — a lecture on the evils of lectures that really got the attendees — present and remote — going!...
Digital Planet from the BBC World Service was one of the earliest podcasts that I picked up when I got my first MP3 player — which wasn’t an iPod! I’ve been listening to it every week for several years and it’s never short of informative. It’s a technology podcast, similar to The Guardian’s TechWeekly (see POTW #2), so it covers the latest news from Google, Apple and Microsoft and the various technology shows and conferences....