gr8ict.com

Well, I couldn’t have packed anymore into the last 48 hours.  If you’re checking out gr8ict.com as a result of BETT09 then welcome!  You could be a colleague from the seminar (thanks for listening), a supplier, a fellow contributor at Teachmeet BETT 09 or the Singaporean colleagues I met on the tube  (Hello Chiu Wai and Yen Ling if you are reading this…).

I found about the latest laptops; using mindmaps for presenting; best Fronter use in the UK (more later); Inspirational networking with teachers - Teachmeet BETT 09 (more later).

I would echo Doug Belshaw (who I thanked in person for a key tip from 4 years ago…) that I thoroughly enjoyed putting faces to online names eg.  Drew Buddie, Ian Usher, Terry Freedman, Theo Kuechel, Leon Cych, John Cuthell and  Dai Barnes from various forums.

I ‘did’ BETT for 2 days and regard Day 1 as the *old* networking - gave the seminar, talked to people I met whilst preparing the talk etc.  Day 2 (and the next months/years) is the *new* networking where I listened to / met like-minded people and can now link via blog, email, podcast and twitter…

I need to get on with 3 sets of Y9 written reports now, but I will post my best ‘gotchas’ later in the week.

Thanks again, and please post if you are reading…

Chris

NB. This is my software investigation list to try out…
Download new mlo (colour on mobile device?)
friendfeed / feedly /  handbrake
www.glogster.com - posters
Download zoomit  (google) use key combs and annotate
edtechround.com every sunday night
bighugelabs.com
animoto.com
diigo more than del.icio.us.com
www.truetube.co.uk

Well, here it is after a week’s hard work. I hope it does students and colleagues justice.

Click here for the pps version (11Mb without notes showing) or  here for the online presentation. (requires opening in Internet Explorer as that is the only way that I could show notes as well).

Here are all the extended references:

Here are all the specific references (general links are here and books here):

Slide 15 - Report of the teaching and learning in 2020 Review Group (2006)
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=10783 - Skills needed in future by our students
Slide 15 - Demos “Theirspace” report (2006)
http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/theirspace -  Skills needed in future by our students
Slide 16 - Book - The Search (2006): How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture – John Battelle
Search is the new interface of Commerce. *I* think that ICT is the new interface of learning…
Slide 20 - Impact 2 (2004)
http://publications.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=25839 - Gail’s Mind Map
Slide 20 - “Theirspace” - see Slide 15.
Slide 21 - Software - Matchware OpenMind
http://www.gr8ict.com/other-software/openmind
Slide 21 - Becta Emerging Technologies (2006)
http://www.gr8ict.com/schoolnotsecure/LLS%20AGCE%2003_1_2%20Emerging_Technologies.pdf
Slide 25 - Software - Matchware Mediator
http://www.gr8ict.com/multimedia-software/matchware-mediator
Slide 25 - Demos “Education Epidemic” report (2003) ,
http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/educationepidemic - David Hargreaves - “Transforming secondary schools through innovation networks”
Slide 34 - Books on time management and effectiveness
7 Habits of Effective People – Stephen Covey
Outlines the seven habits
Getting Things Done - David Allen
Personal Organisation methods
“Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play” - Mark Forster
If you only read one, read this one.

Mobile Phone and PDA All-in-one
O2 XDA Orbit 2 - always had a hand-me-down pay-as-you-go phone up til now.  This has made the difference though - check out Pocket Informant; My-Life-Organised; and Code Wallet as the three must have apps.

Slide 38 - Opportunities in the future:
Personal Learning Networks
http://www.shambles.net/csmith/pln/ - I’m working on my owne subset of these tools.  Using ICT to beat the ICT…
Slide 39 - Demos “Systems Failure 2″ - Jake Chapman (2004) ,
http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/systemfailure2

Happy reading, and please post to the blog…

Chris