This page is a more than slightly eclectic. It’s a collection of bits and pieces about ICT that have come to my attention from time to time and that I wanted to put somewhere safe - so that (a) I’d remember where they are and (b) I can reference them when someone asks about the kind of thing they address.

So, no particular order: no particular value scheme. They’re just what my once-upon-a-time 4 year old daughter referred to as ‘thunks’.

1: So what would be on your Top 10 PowerPoint skills?  And what do you see as your two “bells and whistles” touches?  In the comment space at the bottom of the page you’ll see the thoughts of some of the HDipEd ICT 06-07 cohort on this question at the foot of this page.
 

2; Heffernan is at it again; just when I thought I’d have an Easter break…”hi there
Hope you are enjoying the Easter holidays. Some of you are aware of what second life is others are not.
 
A DCU Final year student the lovely Lizanne is doing a lot of good work in regards to SL and education, there is a brief RTE interview (on the Cafe TTV ) about SL and a simple introduction.  
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzIUODaCqp8
 
Excellent list of SL resources for education can be found here
 
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbib ”And you know what? He’s right…

3.  They would be dangerous if they could actually present without inflicting death by jargon - techHeads should not be let on a stage until they have completed a Comms Programme of some sort…Not that Jeff Martin is one of those. What he had to say at Open Classroom Conference  within EDEN 2007 about HP and C2K is well worth sitting through.  And if like me Stockholm was beyond your budget, there’s a videolog of the talks here: Stockholm07.  Jeff’s talk is the fifth from the top of the list.He presents the case for managed learning in some detail, though I can’t say however that I agree with his take on web 2.0.  I think it’s called being in denial… ;-)

  4. The CERI -KERIS Materials.Sometimes you just stumble across stuff that you’ve known for a while is out there but haven’t quite been able to track down:

http://www.oecd.org/document/53/0,3343,en_2649_35845581_39381877_1_1_1_1,00.html

5. Here’s an interesting slidecast on podcasting. It’s from Alisa Cooper an educator at a US community college.  Clear & comprehensive.