Building on from musings and criticisms about Marc Prensky’s ‘Digital Native and Immigrant’ labels. I want to put forward that we are taking the risk of creating ‘Digital Savages’. Digital Savages are enthusiastic about taking up new technology but have no idea about how to manage it. A digital savage is the manager who always [...]
I recently heard Marc Prensky giving a keynote presentation at Handheld Learning 2007 (HHL 07) (where I also presented - on a much smaller platform ;). He has an easy manner and gives food for thought. His HHL 07 presentation looked at the themes of ‘Digital Native’ and ‘Digital Immigrant’ with regards to learning and [...]
Been looking at two plugins for Wordpress to bring the 3 Sheep commercial site to mobile devices:
Andy More - Wordpress Mobile Plugin
and
Alex King - Wordpress Mobile Edition.
They both pretty much do what they say on the tin and use server-side code to detect if a browser is on a mobile device (or claiming to be). [...]
The BBC is reporting that Becta is advising schools not to move to Microsoft’s School Agreement but to seek out “perpetual licensing” instead. The Microsoft model uses annual subscriptions as opposed to purchasing software outright.
Large software houses, who base their profits on proprietary models have been heading this way for some time. Essentially users rent [...]
We love a good bandwagon. I am writing this Wordpress post through my Facebook account, maybe in 3 months it will be somewhere else but as a creative technologist I cannot afford ignore all the buzzwords, just approach them with a healthy dose of cynicism. I work a lot with mlearning (just thought I would [...]
I am probably going to seem contrary to my last few posts, which have centred on designing content and web service with mobile devices in mind in particular, by writing about being device agnostic in the approach to mobile web development.
The problem with a common ‘One Web’ approach i.e. my web service should work on [...]
The use and misuse of mobile CSS (see previous post) is only part of a broader landscape of issues to consider when creating mobile web services and web sites.
There is a ‘landrush’ on at the moment in the mobile web. Our mobile service providers (US - carriers) are telling us that we can now [...]
For a few years now I have being using Maxdox, an useful tool for creating Java Mobile (J2ME) electronic books for use on mobiles. The creation tool (very rarely in the mobile world) was available for use on all major platforms. Essentially it used XML templates to frame content which could be transmitted to and [...]
On the Handheld Learning forum I’ve been involved in a discussion about the impact of mobile devices in learning. The discussion has prompted me to gather some of my thoughts as to some of the influences on the uptake of learning with mobile devices in schools, colleges, universities and the workplace. The main areas of [...]
A new ruling from the UK asserted a software developers rights to copyright even though they were not contractually asserted. The write up in Out-Law summarises that essentially in UK law copyright exists with the author unless an agreement exists to the contrary. The case shows how much confusion exists about licencing and software and [...]
