Horizon Scanning

T3 - Play doctor with Nintendo DS

2006-02-21T11:30:00.000Z

T3 - Play doctor with Nintendo DS

More developments with Nintendo DS - this time a game where that allows you to perform surgery, using the DS stylus as a scalpel........

More Nintendo DS Developments: TV and Browser - Gizmodo

2006-02-15T15:25:00.000Z

More Nintendo DS Developments: TV and Browser - Gizmodo

This is good news - a web browser on another mobile device

art.com artPad

2006-02-15T15:22:00.000Z

art.com artPad

How brilliant is this? another hot tip from the gadget show. There's another one called liveplasma (www.liveplasma.com), but it's not working at the moment

On TV - The Gadget Show

2006-02-15T15:16:00.000Z

On TV - The Gadget Show

tried to blog this earlier in the week but managed to close the browser by accident, and lose everything I'd written! anyway, decided to do it by BlogThis!

The gadget show this week had a feature about the BT research and development centre, and showed some interesting stuff, including: digital media album, ambient technology, and a moving portrait. Follow the link for more info - it's good....

How....

2006-02-10T09:31:00.000Z

.....can a over a week have gone by without me posting here?

oh well, must have been busy I guess. A few things this week:

firstly, a couple of gadgets spotted on The Gadget Show - a phone that fits on your finger and you ear it when you put your finger in your ear, and a disposable camcorder. I'm not sure about the phone, yet, but the camcorder could be interesting. They cost about £17 and you take them to a chemist to get 'developed', like in the olden days with camera films. Surely students could be armed with these for range of learning, teaching and assessment activities. Only drawback would be.... limited amount of recording time

secondly, we are gonna be looking at the perplexity game in more detail. A set of cards has been ordered and should be arriving soon

thirdly, next week's team meeting is about horizon scanning..... so should provide items to be posted here.......

lastly, I've got the latest Stuff magazine to look at

Excellent feedback

2006-02-02T14:06:00.000Z

My team have had some excellent feedback today from some work we started some time ago. Hopefully, we have created some resources that will have a positive impact on the efficiency and quality of feedback given to students. Matt, who did most of the work on this, deserves a lot of credit.

Aren't wireless networks.....

2006-02-02T14:01:00.000Z

....fantastic? I'm sitting here with a laptop as my work desktop machine is (finally!) getting installed with Windows XP. Which reminds me..... one thing I need to do is get the web on my PSP, after a spectacular failure in Starbucks a few weeks ago....

Who knows, next time my desktop machine is updated I might be able to blog from my watch (I would have said phone or PDA but people are already doing this!)

On last night's national news....

2006-02-02T08:31:00.000Z

.....was a feature about a school in Birmingham where they had banned pupils raising hands in lessons. In place of this, teachers would pick a pupil to answer their questions. If the pupil didn't want to answer or was stuck, they could 'phone a friend' (ask in the class) to help them out. It was interesting - and raises points about student interaction and engagement in group sessions. It is clear that teachers are still thinking about ways to engage and involve pupils/students.

DVD board games are popular at the moment, and there is a pop quiz game for PlayStation 2 called Buzz that allows 4 people to use buzzers to show that they want to answer a question. We should consider looking into how these (or simiar) can be used to improve classroom interactions

Perplexcity

2006-02-01T13:49:00.000Z

Spent some of this morning looking at a game called Perplexcity. More to follow.....

More info about this blog

2006-02-01T09:50:00.000Z

After adding my profile, I've decided to give a bit more info about the aim of this blog. I'm using it to highlight and share information that can be used in the main areas of my work, and the work of my team. These are:

mobile learning
games and gaming technology in learning
digital repositories
student generated resources
innovation in learning, teaching and assessment

maybe I've missed some??? I'll add them later

First post

2006-02-01T09:04:00.000Z

Hello and welcome to the horizon scanning blog. After being inspired to use blogger by a colleague, I've decided to set up my own. The aim of this will be to report and discuss new and emerging technologies that can be used in learning, teaching and assessment