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Summary Of Ideas For Using QR Codes In Libraries:

Based on direct experience gained by the project partners with practical work on Identity Management in-house, this JISC-funded project has produced a Toolkit to support universities and colleges. The project had oversight and endorsement from UCISA, RUGI

The iPad may be gripping the moneyed world in a fever of technolust, but the other e-reader, the Kindle, is still better at many things. Take Ghana, West Africa, for example. If you are a school in a small village with satellite internet and solar power,

As a part of SuperPower Nation Day, the BBC are running an experiment using Google Translate, an automatic machine translation service, to see how the internet can break down language barriers. Communicate with speakers of Arabic, Chinese, English, Persia

Microsoft is opening up a new office software called OfficeTalk in a "limited private pilot" scheme. The service is basically akin to Yammer - and on a smaller scale - a Twitter rival.

In a move that could shake up the interactive whiteboard (IWB) market, two projector manufacturers have just released new products that can turn virtually any surface into an IWB.

Molly is a framework for the rapid development of information and service portals targeted at mobile internet devices. The framework follows a "batteries included" philosophy, featuring a wide variety of applications and connectors to common and standards

Free guide to using Google for teaching

KTN final report on the future of digital content sets out a series of provocative and exciting ideas that will help creative businesses and technology developers understand the radical transformation that developments in digital technology will have on c

Lots of e-learning related conference around the world over the next year or so. Get those papers in :-)

This site randomly displays the private phone numbers of unsuspecting Facebook users.There are uncountable numbers of groups on Facebook called "lost my phone!!!!! need ur numbers!!!!!" or something like that. Most of them are marked as 'public', or 'visi

Here's the first of a series of posts to document an evolving participatory geography project. Year 8 students will annotate their local area with QR codes that link to web-based work exploring their relationship with place.

Higher education bodies could be in the firing line after Vince Cable announced plans to abolish, merge or reduce funding for almost half of the quangos in his department.

There are lots of blogs with people gushing over their new iPad. Here's a sensible voice talking about why they won't be joining them.

Einztein is a new service for locating online collegiate level courses and corresponding materials. Einztein isn't your standard search engine as all courses listed by Einztein are reviewed by a PhD level editorial team.

This paper describes and analyses the motivations for OER projects, the design decisions they took in implementing their repositories, the approaches they took to change agency and practice within their communities, and the changes in practice that have s

CloudCourse is a course scheduling system.Built entirely on App Engine, CloudCourse allows anyone to create and track learning activities. It also offers calendaring, waitlist management and approval features. CloudCourse is fully integrated with Google

In the spending cuts unveiled by the coalition government this morning, one victim will have stood out for the IT community. British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), the quango which promotes the use of technology in schools, is t