For those interested in the shared web documents and resources from our 5th Annual Stockport conference today, these may be of interest: Mobile devices learning policy at http://tinyurl.com/mobiledevicepolicy Thinking about Cloud Services for school and individual use: http://tinyurl.com/whichcloud Schools who would like to join their collaborative group blog to share experiences of using Cloud and [...]
The annual conference for Manchester is a standing room only affair. People are coming over in the coffee break wanting to talk about the cloud, apps, iPods and iPads. Hectic but brilliant to see so many teachers wanting to move technology forward in schools. Sent from an iPhone 4
According to Daniel Danker, the broadcaster’s general manager of programmes and on demand,The BBC iPlayer iOS app has been downloaded 1.1m times in the week since it was updated to run on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch as well as iPad. Guardian online reports that the app has proved a big hit and a new [...]
IBM have released it’s “Five in Five” predictions for the future direction of technology. Perhaps the most attention grabbing prediction is the one that says we will have thought activated computing within 5 years. Other predictions are that passwords will be obsolete with biometric scans replacing them. (although the news that certain face recognition security [...]
Google’s Chrome Browser is now the Browser of choice for over 24.55% of Internet users overtaking IE8 with 22.16%. (according to StatCounter)If one lumps all version together IE is still the most dominant browser but for how long. If you haven’t tried Chrome then maybe you should give it a try. I cannot remember the [...]
Studying the 1960′s with your pupils? Take advantage of this free download from iTunes. It is a colourful resource ideal for iPad and iPod. Even if you are not teaching this as a topic, it is a great freebie to have as a Beatles’ fan, it even has embedded video clips from the movie.
You are Invited to Join Us. MGL would like to invite you to our 4th annual Manchester Area Event, a day of workshops and seminars. Friday 3rd February 2012 at TheVillage Hotel, Cheadle – 9.00 AM till 3.30 PM The day is designed to inform schools about new developments in using ICT to support learning, [...]
Google have just released their latest version of their browser Chrome. As with most things Google it is a great product, lightning fast and easy to use. Check out this video of the latest features
By Guest Blogger From Gorsewood Primary School, Halton For the past 6 weeks we have been working on a school newspaper called the Gorsewood Gazette We (22 of us) have worked with a Journalist and a Consultant from MGL, and one of our teachers, learning how to produce a Newspaper. In our newspaper we have reported [...]
On the news this morning was an article about the way that the internet information is perceived by children. At the heart of the report by DEMOS is the finding that pupils using the internet can find it hard to differentiate between factually correct material and the misinformation lies and opinions (such as blogs!) that [...]
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