links for 2010-02-09
February 9, 2010 by Dave Taitlinks for 2010-02-08
February 8, 2010 by Dave Tait-
"To get the basics out of the way right away, yes, I think it’ll be incredibly successful. And yes, the name’s a bit iffy but will not be a problem in time because it'll be incredibly successful. And yes, it’s the first iteration of something that will be rapidly refined over the coming years."
links for 2010-02-05
February 5, 2010 by Dave Tait-
Software developer ScrollMotion announced this week that it will make textbooks compatible with the new Apple iPad for four major publishers: McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson, and Kaplan Publishing. The e-books, in addition to providing the original content of textbooks, will allow users to highlight text in multiple colors, take audio and printed notes, search content in different ways, take quizzes, and watch videos. (www.scrollmotion.com)
links for 2010-02-04
February 4, 2010 by Dave Tait-
Recy-block is designed by Gert de Mulder. Plastic wrapping material which has been pressed under heath into a pillow shaped rectangle element. An interesting block made of all sorts of plastic waste material and coloured plastic sheets.
links for 2010-02-03
February 3, 2010 by Dave Tait-
Social Venture Creation class
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remix of tweets by those attending Steve Portigal’s UIE Webinar on “Deep Dive Interviewing Secrets: Making Sure You Don’t Leave Key Information Behind”.
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1. Familiarity of Experience
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3. Already secure
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Google has revealed on their Chromium blog their potential plans to launch a touch-sensitive tablet computer similar to Apple’s iPad. Price, unknown. Open, yes.
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China's Engagement in Africa: Key Findings and Recommendations :: News :: The Rockefeller FoundationWill Chinese lending to African countries create debt that becomes unsustainable, or will China help reduce Africa’s indebtedness by stimulating exports and growth? How will the global recession affect this relationship? What lessons can be learned from China’s track record of extraordinary economic growth and increases in agricultural productivity? How can the development community aid resource-poor countries, small businesspeople, and low-income people in their engagements with China?
links for 2010-02-02
February 2, 2010 by Dave Tait-
"it’s important to realize that people living in poverty value quality design. Quality design doesn’t mean that goods and services need to cost more."
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Nokia and education company Pearson have formed a joint venture in China dubbed Beijing Mobiledu Technologies to grow MobilEdu, the wireless education service that the Finnish mobile giant launched in China back in 2007.
Mobiledu is a mobile service that essentially provides English-language learning materials and other educational content, from a variety of content providers, directly to mobile phones.
links for 2010-02-01
February 1, 2010 by Dave Tait-
Nearly 20 students from China are working with Stanford students at the d.school this week as part of the Cross-Cultural Design class.
The class kicks off with a workshop here at Stanford this week, then Stanford students will travel to Peking University in Beijing for a second workshop during spring break. This is the second year the class has been offered, and it has expanded to include students from the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, one of the oldest and most respected fine arts schools in China.
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"I believe it represents a fundamental shift in the metaphors of computing, as significant as the move from text to graphical interfaces."
links for 2010-01-31
January 31, 2010 by Dave Tait-
iPad learning. includes interactive usability and sharing between students.
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A new venture called Bridge International Academies is reinventing the model for education in Kenya by taking a page from franchise-based corporations.
links for 2010-01-29
January 29, 2010 by Dave Tait-
"Should poor countries in Africa be exploring investments in things like eBook readers for use in schools?
Well, one way to find out would be to set up an experiment to test various approaches and solutions in pursuit of an answer to this question." -
ALthough the iPad is not the ultimate device, it will spark off a new UI trend and form factor and in time lower ownership costs.
links for 2010-01-28
January 28, 2010 by Dave Tait-
Commissioned by Cisco, Participle's Charles Leadbeater interviewed 100 social entrepreneurs seeking to meet huge needs without the advantage of traditional resources. What we can learn from social entrepreneurs are innovating radically new ways to take learning into the poorest places in to the world.
