Directgov, has launched a new Flash animated site for children aged 5-11. DirectgovKids welcomes our future generation of civil servants (else why else would they be visiting Directgov?) into a self-contained little world full of virtual buildings…
I presented today on the topic of Communities of Practice for the launch of the Progress through Partnership programme, sponsored and supported by the South East Employers (SEEMP). The Progress through Partnership (PtP) is a peer led programme wit…
I’ve covered this before in a previous post, but if ayone is seeking a cheap (as in free) but powerful photo editing application, take a look at Picnik. They’ve just released version 11, which has a whole host of new features.
I picked this up courtesy of Beth Kanter’s blog, regarding a recent survey conducted in the education sector on use of Web 2.0 tools. The survey summary analysis is available under a Creative Commons license from David White, JISC funded ‘SPIRE’ p…
Dave Snowden’s post caught my eye today. (I’m interpreting Weltanschauung as meaning ‘world view’, or ‘accepted opinion’ here). Sensible (and deep) perspective on the social computing ‘revolution’ (my word not Dave’s), as you’d probably expect fro…
I’ve picked up on a couple of blogs recently referring to Ning, a platform for creating individual social networks or communities of practice. It allows you to have your own site to which people can sign up and leave blog posts, have forum discuss…
Bruce Mason over at TNN – Tags/Networks/Narrative has some interesting things to say about folksonomies, taxonomies and ‘collabularies’ (I choke each time I mention that word!). I’ve also learnt a new term – ‘feral hypertext’ – now I like that!
I picked this item up from Beth Kantor’s blog who references a report by JISC on Web 2.0 technologies (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf) I have to say that, on the whole, the report gives a very good introduction to Web…
I came across Picnik – a web site providing free photo editing and special effects. The site is still in Beta, and some of the creative tool tabs are annotated with ‘Coming Soon”. However, the photo editing tools all work, the interface is quite s…
I came across the idea of Action Oriented communities of practice on the Anecdote blog by Shawn Callahan. It refers to the point in the CoP life cycle when the group really benefits from creating tangible things designed to improve the members’ pr…
