EduGlu Sandbox

I’ve just updated WordPress to 2.6 - which seems to be promising quite a few new features:

A colleague has just shown me Wordle which is really rather fun. You have to paste in a chunk of text, or a site that has a feed. It then creates a cloud (much like a tag cloud) of all the words that are in it. It ignores common words (e.g.

In this week’s Multiple choice (in the Guardian Education Supplement), a parent, teacher & student were asked the above question.
Both the teacher

I’ve been fairly busy over the last few weeks - what with marking etc. On Monday, on the way to the HEA Conference, I decided to test out both my new tablet PC & NXEC’s free wireless service. It worked fine - I got posted quite a few posts that had been in draft for a while.

I’ve been investigating the OLPC quite a bit. I’ve also got back into reading about it.

I’d not seen Scott’s original matrix (or, to be strictly honest, I think I have seen it before, but I can’t remember where/ when / I certainly never did anything with it at the time!).

I’ve been using the Talkr podcast for some time now, but it seems to have stopped working (? when I upgraded to WordPress 2.5).

Just updated to WordPress 2.5 one of the easiest updates I’ve done (though NowReading doesn’t se

The world’s 50 most powerful blogs Several I’ve not heard of, and, perhaps not surprisingly, no ed-tech ones. Oh well. One day!

… No wonder women swap gender. The Guardian reports on a research project at Nottingham Trent showing that 70% of female online gamers select a male avatar. I’d be interested to know what the ratio is on SL.