Les Blogs Paris April 28, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : internet , add a comment
Originally uploaded by Hans on Experience.
Blogs are really big in France, now.
According to government figures, half of all schoolchildren are bloggers, an estimated 3 million. Almost 2 million of them use Skyblog, a service operated by youth radio station Skyrock that is growing by around 600 new journals and 200,000 entries every day.
Many teens use mobile phones to post diary entries and pop-culture news flashes to their skyblogs on the move.
Link to: Les Blogs conference wiki
Valentine’s Cards April 27, 2005
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Originally uploaded by StefZ.
These were on BOGOF, so I’ve stashed 4 away for next February.
Ghost House April 26, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : Art , add a comment
In every roll of film developed there are always a few surprises. This study of the dilapidated facia belonging to a house in the old East End near Brick Lane has a pleasing colour scheme but would otherwise be unremarkable until you notice a strange shadowy figure walking past who was sort of there but not there at the same time.
The symbol and the thing April 20, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : hi res photos , add a commentThis is an illustration of one instance of the difference between a symbol and a thing.
First, a map which is a symbolic representation of a real place, called Penpol creek.
( Go back to the previous post about google maps if you want to scroll around there a further afield )
Now here’s a thumbnail and hi-res photograph of Penpol creek.
But that is still only a photograph, a digital object which captures a a tiny fragment from only the visual information which was available at one particular moment in time from one chosen viewpoint. The relationship between the photograph and actually being there for that moment could be likened to the difference between the map and the picture.
A short while later…….
car free April 19, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : hi res photos , add a commentJust after the London Snickers on Sunday, Greenwich remained car free for an hour or two and gave us a glimpse of how pleasant life could be without the constant drone, danger and stress of continuous traffic in an otherwise agreeable town. Reclaim the streets!
Online Learning and Collaboration event April 19, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : General , add a commentAlready underway, TechSoup.org’s latest International online event on Online Learning and Collaboration.
Join us the week of April 18-22, 2005 in TechSoup’s Community at www.techsoup.org online learning
What are the issues and challenges involved in using online learning? What does it mean to collaborate and learn online? How can you and your organization use online learning and collaboration to achieve your organizational mission? This week-long event will answer those questions and demystify online collaboration tools. Join us as we discuss collaborative approaches for online learning communities, conferences, as well as classes and workshops. We will introduce you to the free tools available on the Web for online collaboration. We will also examine (and demonstrate) software and platforms in addition to best practice examples from the Tutor/Mentor Connection and Knowplace. The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC), based in Chicago , uses the Internet as a resource library and meeting place for people interested in helping inner city youth. Knowplace is a customized International learning community that helps organizations and individuals move into the online world quickly and efficiently.
Drop in on the event and share your own examples, ideas and questions and test these new, free technologies that will help your organization with its educational goals.
Topics include
* An overview of ideas and practices integral to online learning and collaboration.
* Best-practice examples of learning community meetings and conferences.
* A live demo of a synchronous session.
* Free or inexpensive tools for teaching, training , and building an online learning community.
* The steps it takes to go from in-person to online learning.This event will be hosted at http//www.techsoup.org/onlinelearning and
moderated by Janet Salmons, Vision2Lead, Inc.
Dan Bassill, Tutor/Mentor Connection and Carole Cotton and Frances Long, Knowplace (http//knowplace.ca/).
See you the week of April 18 at http//www.techsoup.org/onlinelearning
The Death of God April 19, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : Music , add a comment
Google maps April 19, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : internet , 3commentsI agree with Jonathan that Tom Smith is being excessively grumpy about Google maps . Coupled with Google local uk, this is a big improvement on multimap and streetmap.
My only complaint is that they have vanished my local railway station !!!
Online Learning and Collaboration event April 19, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : learning , comments closedAlready underway, TechSoup.org’s latest International online event on Online Learning and Collaboration.
Join us the week of April 18-22, 2005 in TechSoup’s Community at www.techsoup.org online learning
What are the issues and challenges involved in using online learning? What does it mean to collaborate and learn online? How can you and your organization use online learning and collaboration to achieve your organizational mission? This week-long event will answer those questions and demystify online collaboration tools. Join us as we discuss collaborative approaches for online learning communities, conferences, as well as classes and workshops. We will introduce you to the free tools available on the Web for online collaboration. We will also examine (and demonstrate) software and platforms in addition to best practice examples from the Tutor/Mentor Connection and Knowplace. The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC), based in Chicago , uses the Internet as a resource library and meeting place for people interested in helping inner city youth. Knowplace is a customized International learning community that helps organizations and individuals move into the online world quickly and efficiently.
Drop in on the event and share your own examples, ideas and questions and test these new, free technologies that will help your organization with its educational goals.
Topics include
* An overview of ideas and practices integral to online learning and collaboration.
* Best-practice examples of learning community meetings and conferences.
* A live demo of a synchronous session.
* Free or inexpensive tools for teaching, training , and building an online learning community.
* The steps it takes to go from in-person to online learning.This event will be hosted at http//www.techsoup.org/onlinelearning and
moderated by Janet Salmons, Vision2Lead, Inc.
Dan Bassill, Tutor/Mentor Connection and Carole Cotton and Frances Long, Knowplace (http//knowplace.ca/).
See you the week of April 18 at http//www.techsoup.org/onlinelearning
Four Flags April 17, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : hi res photos, London , 2comments
Spotted flying above a Greenwich market stall, but can you identify all four flags?
is an online professional who initiated DARnet 
