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Interesting statistics on 2011 tablet sales in Aus/NZ: iPad 2 capturing 71% c.f. Android's 27% of NZ market. WiFi-only tablets dominating.

I wonder how much the wifi is driven by the cost difference for 3g? Also, how many only really use at home and then how many people are disappointed that they can't get wifi when they are out?

"Technology stewards are people with enough experience of the workings of a community to understand its technology needs..."<--useful idea for digital literacy? Wider in scope than teaching/eLearning advocates. Hope to chat with Nancy in Hobart.

Like this concept. Like the connection between technology and community awareness.

Steve Wheeler with short hints on building a PLN

Hey all, not really a Tertiary thing but thought you might be interested... "Rotorua has embarked on a bold plan to equip all of its pupils with personal learning devices - connecting all of them to the internet and creating a New Zealand-first "e-learning community".

"Meta-data contains a great deal of information, and when gathered together it forms a startlingly clear picture of the person it comes from. A point that Professor César Hidalgo and graduate students Daniel Smilkov and Deepak Jagdish of MIT are trying to get across. They have created a new program called Immersion. It works by signing you into your Gmail account and collecting only the meta-data from your account usage history. From there you can get a picture of your emailing habits from that single account, and you will be shocked at what you see."

Jenny Mackness compares and contrasts the different MOOC approaches from cMOOC to xMOOC.

Short post on finding values for teaching & learning and how they might change at a particular school. Ends with the idea of setting school-wide priorities rather than teacher goals and using that to cause change.

An initiative at AUT to explore new models of learning.

Special issue on Technology and Social Media in education

The VC at Salford blogs about Martin Bean's recent keynote at the JISC conference. Is this the way to communicate