Had a really interesting morning in Manchester today. Went to a seminar/presentation from Softease where Dr Baldev Singh presented about technologies of the future and how they might impact on education. He was an excellent presenter with a lot of humour and demonstrated some great examples of how the new Web2.0 technologies are being used by educationalists. He has really inspired me to have a go with these new technologies and try to get the teachers in Barnsley fired up with them. Voicethread was one that I was particularly struck by as it seems to have a lot of potential within the classroom. Users are able to upload pictures, add narrative to them whilst annotating and let other people watch and add comments to the presentation. Real collaboration on line.
It was a shame that the Honeycomb product didn't inspire as much as he did. Or the journey to and from Manchester which was a nightmare as usual. At least the Hilton makes a good picture!
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