Archive for: May 2005

May 27, 2005

Skinner – would you let him educate your children?

Filed under: Frippery - 27 May 2005

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Taken from the Smithsonian Institute HistoryWired Project

“Nose Cone, Pigeon-Guided Missile
1944

From Pavlov’s dogs to Skinner’s pigeons
This experimental device was developed during World War II by behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner, who experimented with harnessing …

Smithsonian online collections

Filed under: Technology - 27 May 2005

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Pursuing my thoughts around Google personalised home pages pages I was reminded about some software that Alex (I think) introduced me to a couple of years ago. It was called the …

May 21, 2005

Google as a tool for lifelong learning

Filed under: Technology - 21 May 2005

I have just set myself up a Google Personalised Home Page. I was interested in this because the idea seemed to have lots of potential as a tool for lifelong/professional learning if they get it right. At …

May 20, 2005

Smashing idea from the Beeb.

Filed under: Reviews - 20 May 2005

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I came across this whilst ‘blog browsing’ and it seems to me to be a radical approach fro the BBC to address copyright issues for all the right reasons. Put simply, the …

May 9, 2005

Upgrading your ICT capacity 2

Filed under: Reflections - 09 May 2005

A follow up workshop proved to be very illuminating as we began to delve into some of the nitty gritty of the enterprise solution. I have no experience on running such projects so my observations are from the end …

May 4, 2005

Upgrading your ICT capacity

Filed under: Reflections - 04 May 2005

ICT enterprise solutions is a term that encompasses large and complex networks that span multiple sites and may include both intranets and outward facing internet services. Clearly this is a complicated and challenging problem from a technical point of …

Old Hat

Filed under: Reflections - 04 May 2005

I was thinking the other day about how I could best explain what the difference is between digital learning object and an asset. First, as many people already do, I would drop the prefix digital as it distracts from …