Tag Archives: innovation

Handheld Learning 2009 - The Quest Continues

The motley crew of mobile learning affectionados (myself included) have just completed their yearly pilgrimage to Handheld Learning 2009 (HHL). For 3 days at The Brewery conference centre in London mobile projects are celebrated and visions of future of learning are shared, debated reformed and then shared and debated some more.
The highest profile part [...]

New Mobile Technologies come to aid of Charity

Users of Greater Manchester Charity, The Furniture Station, are going to benefit from a new mobile and web based referral system designed and developed by 3 Sheep Ltd. The system will be officially launched on the 1st October 2009  at the Charity’s Offices at Hazel Grove Baptist Church at an event attended by the Mayor [...]

Sustainable Mobile Learning

When I was at school, around this time of year, we would visit Marks and Spencer’s for the annual school uniform trip. Uniform was compulsory but not supplied by the school, the same was true for PE Kit, pens, pencils, rulers, calculators and a whole raft of other supplies much of which had no application [...]

Mimas: Tellling Tales - Mobile Learning Event

I recently presented at the Mimas: Telling Tales - Mobile Learning event at The University of Westminster in London. Mimas is a national data centre based at The University of Manchester. They decamped to London for the day and hosted a great forum on Mobile Learning. Lorraine Estelle from JISC Collections gave the opening  and [...]

Mobile Learning - is it worth it?

So can we really do it? Mobile learning surely it’s just a buzz phrase that hooks in a bit of funding every now and again for various quirky projects?
I’ll be speaking next week at the Mimas (The University of Manchester) Mobile Learning: Telling Tales event on the subject of “Changing Gear - Implementing Mobile Learning”. [...]

International Innovation Award

3 Sheep founder Stuart Smith’s work for The University of Manchester has received a prestigious International Innovation Award at Handheld Learning 2008. The award presented by TV personality Johnny Ball recognises the work by Stuart in developing a new Content Management System (CMS) that allows content to be reformatted and optimised for access on mobile [...]