During Martin Bean’s keynote presentation at the NAACE 2009 Strategic Conference one of the new technologies that was demonstrated was Deep Zoom. I’ve mentioned Deep Zoom before in relation to my recent visit to the UK Microsoft Innovative Teachers Forum in Reading. The Hard Rock Café collectio...

On the bus to the Microsoft UK Innovative Teachers Forum last week Stuart Ball and I were chatting about getting teachers to use the basic classroom ICT tools better and in a more creative way. Presentation software, particularly PowerPoint was one of the tools that we were talking about. I like pre...

  Via Angela Maiers on Twitter I came across this interesting visual search tool called ‘KartOO’. According to Wikipedia ‘KartOO is a next-generation meta search engine which displays a visual interface. It was co-founded in France by two cousins, Laurent and Nicholas Baleydier. This pro...

These are some of the Microsoft Tools that we were introduced to or that were used extensively in the winning Virtual Classroom Tours (VCTs) during the UK Innovative Teachers Forum. More information about these tools can be found on the Microsoft UK Innovative Teachers Network or on the Microsoft In...

I’ve been quoting the work of Bill Gates and Gates Foundation for years at my Scottish Association of Geography Teacher student talks on Population and Development and Health. At the 2009 TED talks Gates gives an excellent presentation on Malaria, with some startling facts. For example, did you kn...

  Multi-touch tables were one of the big themes of BETT 2009 and I think they will be even bigger and cheaper for BETT 2010. I have to say I like the idea of multi-touch tables and some of the children that I saw using them at demo during BETT were naturally collaborating, communicating and le...

It was nice to finally meet Stuart Ball (pictures right above) from the UK Microsoft Innovative Teachers Network at BETT 2009. We have spoken on the phone before, exchanged emails and tweets. It was also nice to briefly meet Kristen Weatherby (Microsoft) and Dan Roberts (pictured left above), who wa...

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy   This is a really interesting video on how the Army in the US are using computer games for recruitment. They have built the first state of the art 13 million dollar ‘Army Experience Centre’ in Philadelphia’s Frank...

It’s this time of year when I look back over my learning log to see what I’ve achieved during the last 12 months. In summary it’s probably more than most people, but a bit less than I should have. Here are a few aspects from the last year that really stuck out. Work I continued at Musselburgh ...

Video Games and Games Consoles are likely to be at the top of a lot of Christmas lists this year. According to Ezine the top ten gifts are likely to be: The Nintendo Wii The Wii Fit The Nintendo DS Sony Playstation 3 Xbox 360 Sony PSP Lego Mind Storm Silverlit PicooZ Twin Blade 3 Channel Helicopter ...