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This is an incredible way to lose any contact with all the wires that you need to upload your photos from your digital camera. Eye-Fi SD Wireless card connects your digital camera directly to the Internet using a wireless connection. So, when you come back from a party and you are very enthusiastic about seeing the pictures taken there is nothing easier than using this 2GB SD Card.

These are some of the ideas I have been brewing over during my half term break from school. Today I managed to have a great few hours and got 3 solid looking weeks of planning done which incorporate all of these concepts. As the next few weeks pass I will

1. About From 2008 to 2010 this digital codex will increase in size as my work towards an Ed.D. through the University of Durham continues. I'm being supervised by Steve Higgins and my working title is: What does it mean to be 'educated' and 'digitally literate'? The impact of ICT and the knowledge society upon education in the 21st century.

The national digital resource bank (ndrb) is quite simply the largest collection of curriculum focused digital resources available to UK schools and can be accessed through your Local Authority at a simple service fee that costs around £25 per school per year.

Pirate Pad discussion on the Digital Leaders initiative

This is a dynamic document designed to support teachers, school media specialists, and education leaders in developing, maintaining, and enforcing policies designed to: 1. Promote the most effective, productive, and instructionally sound uses of digital, networked, and abundant information environments. 2. Provide safe digital environments for learners and to instill safe practices and habits among the learning community.

Drop.io is an easy to use, online collaboration and file sharing service that provides users with a simple, real time and private way to chat and share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content through unique, user-created and controlled sharing points called 'drops.'

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This site provides an overview of the DIAL-e framework developed by Kevin Burden and Simon Atkinson. It includes a great introductory video on the project. "The framework was developed as part of a UK project, sponsored through the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC), to encourage academics and other educators to adopt digital artefacts (in this case video) as part of their teaching, learning and research strategies. Simon and Kevin have three papers about this at the Ascilite conference. I really like this framework and think it has great potential. I think it is a good example of a 'design schema' i.e. a framework to enable teachers and designers to think differently about learning and teaching.

I'm worried about dying. No, not in terms of my mortal flesh and immortal soul; I'm worried about what will happen to my data when I die.

New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development (November 20, 2008) - Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America's youth are developing important social and technical skills online - often in ways adults do not understand or value.

The MirandaNet Fellowship, founded in 1992, is an e-community of practice for international ICT policy makers, teachers, teacher educators, researchers and commercial developers who are passionate about digital technology in teaching and learning and about using technologies to promote cultural understanding and democratic participation. Currently there are over 850 members in 43 countries worldwide. The website, online forums, seminars, workshops and projects run by members are funded by international partner companies and government agencies. Currently projects are running with 2Simple, Fronter, Inspiration, LogicaCMG, Oracle and Steljes. MirandaNet gratefully acknowledges the support of its company partners.

Make Your Camera Wireless! Upload photos automatically from your digital camera to your computer & favorite photo site with the Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD memory card

Enable one camera and eye-fi it for instant upload to web - share camera around on a field trip. Be even better with new Geo Location cameras.

an in-class real time digital audio and visual recording system that assists teaching and professional development, provides a permanent record of best practice, helps manage behaviour and offers protection for staff and pupils, and security for assets.

A weekly edtech podcast hosted by Darrel Branson (The ICT Guy) and Tony Richards from itmadesimple.com. We discuss all things digital in education - technologies, issues, great websites, web 2.0 and much, much more!

The bag is packed full of free digital resources relating to sessions and activities from the conference. You will find links to useful websites, blogs and electronic documents as well as speaker presentations, keynote videos and much more.

Futurelab's bi-annual magazine offers possible visions of the future of learning with digital technologies and other innovative resources.

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Various methods of assessing work online