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  • 2009 Horizon Report

    I’m sure some of you have seen mention of this (or the Comment Press version) around the ‘net, but for those who haven’t and who can’t be bothered to log in to get to the report, I’ve pulled out the highlights – this is also handy for those non Edu-folk who read, looking for insight…

  • Enhancing Child Saftey Online

    The Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States has released a report on the risks that exist online for kids in the US. Some of the findings: Bullying and harassment, most often by peers, are the most frequent threats that minors…

  • Silly Spore Science

    A while ago, my brother and I were talking about some of the games that are playable with little ones around and just about every one that came up was Wii only. Then this weekend, he noticed that his XBOX 360 had updated after not having network access for almost three months. The new interface…

  • Crayon Physics

    One of the things that I enjoyed when taking physics courses was drawing the little diagrams to help explain the problem that I was trying to solve. This is a technique that is good for all manner of disciplines, but it seems to have been adopted best by Physics. So when I saw this game,…

  • Comics in Education

    I’ve been a fan of Larry Gonick since I found one of his books many moons ago. So when a colleague of mine, who was trying to use comics in Science education was let go at the end of 2008, I was rather disheartened because I was really keen on working on the project. But…