A great futuristic adventure game from the BBC where players must use their skills at adding and subtracting to save the world.
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A fun word game where players must move three letters to the top of the screen by using the letters above to spell words.
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An interesting maths site where players must find the value of X in problem using multiplication, division, addition or subtraction.
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Book Reviews
Book title: Digitisation Perspectives
Type: book
Author: Ruth Rikowski
Year: 2010
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 9460912982
Publisher: Sense Publishers
Publisher's Description: This book examines various views and perspectives on digitisation. As Simon Tanner, Director Digital Consultancy, King's College London says in the Foreword: "Digitisation has become a cultural, scholastic, economic and political imperative and raises many issues for our consideration." Furthermore, that the book: "...seeks to address and answer some of the big questions of digitisation... It succeeds on many levels..." There are 22 contributors in the book, all experts in their fields. The book is divided into six parts: Part 1: 'Background and Overview to Digitisation and Digital Libraries' Part 2: 'Digitisation and Higher Education' Part 3: 'Digitisation and Inequalities' Part 4: 'Digital Libraries, Reference Services and Citation Indexing' Part 5: 'Digitisation of Rare, Valued and Scholarly Works' Part 6: 'Futuristic Developments of Digitisation' Topics covered include electronic theses, search engine technology, digitisation in Africa, citation indexing, reference services, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, new media and scholarly publishing. The final chapter explores virtual libraries, and poses some interesting questions for possible futures. The book will be of particular interest to information professionals, educators, librarians, academics and I.T. and knowledge experts. Ruth Rikowski concludes by indicating that: "...hopefully, the book will provide a source of inspiration for further research, leading to some more effective ways to proceed with the digitisation process. Also, that it will be possible to do this within a framework that can be used for good rather than ill, and for the benefit of many."
Reviewer: Eric Jukes (Formerly of College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London)
Book Rating: 5/5
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Nairobi 2010 Conference Reoprt
Climate Change and Natural Resource Use in Eastern Africa: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation
Report of the 3rd Scientific Conference of the Ecological Society for Eastern Africa (ESEA) and co-hosted with the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) at Multimedia University College, Nairobi, 19 - 21 May 2010
By
Nicholas Oguge, Caroline Lumosi, Teddy Odindo, Joseph Ngondi and Philista Malaki
October 4, 2010
Summary
While the Earth's climate has changed throughout history, the current warming trend has been of particular concern because most of it is human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented. One of the greatest concerns of this global warming is climate variability and change. The risks associated with climate change add to development challenges such as food and water insecurity. Although climate change is only one of the many drivers negatively affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services, it certainly exacerbates the other factors such as land degradation and unsustainable natural resource use. There is general concern on the accelerating deterioration of the human environment and natural resources. This would widen poverty levels confronting eastern African countries and threaten gains made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Thus, the Ecological Society for Eastern African organised its 3rd annual scientific conference with a theme addressing this global challenge. The idea was to bring together researchers, policy makers and the general public together to discuss the climate change phenomena, its impacts, mitigation strategies and adaptation measures with regard to natural resource use in Eastern Africa. In order to address above issues and to reach out to a wider audience, we designed the conference strategically on three tiers:
1. Plenary talks: to provide policy information and direction, science on climate change, ecological and socio-economic effects, how to commun
A great English game where players shoot the correct word when given the word class, such as noun, verb, adjective etc.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
A good English spelling puzzle where players are given a object to try to spell. The game has two difficulty levels.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
"Users can create both web and virtual Quests for others to participate in. So you could hide a $5 bill in JFK and create a series of complicated tasks that a player has to complete in order to find the money. A sample web-based Quest could involve connecting with a person online, and asking for an answer key."
A superb site for a global spelling event where player can practise their spelling and compete against others from around the world.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
A collection of maths games and activities to play online and download. The games can be set to a maths subject and age group. Play both single and multi-player games.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
A simple maths game for younger learners where players match the number word to a spaceship with the number digit.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
