http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/christina JISC CETIS journalist and editor Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:59:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week Counterpoint, the British Council think tank, published the "Cloud Culture, the future of global cultural relations" pamphlet by Charles Leadbeater. In it Charles charts the cultural impact that the web has had in the last 15 years and looks ahead to how cloud computing will influence cultural developments ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/christina/2010/02/17/cloud-culture-report-published/ This week Bobbie Johnson at the Guardian is blogging about the technology developments in each of the last ten years of the noughties. Today he's up to 2002, with the rise and rise of Google and the rise and fall of Napster. Similarly the BBC are looking back over the ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/christina/2009/12/15/ten-years-of-technology/ As a JISC Innovation Support Centre we often discuss the conditions needed to foster innovation, at local as well as national levels. So I was interested to come across this Futurelab literature review on Overcoming the Barriers to Educational Innovation by Kieron Kirkland and Dan Sutch. Although the report focusses on ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/christina/2009/10/07/barriers-to-innovation/ Writing a project proposal is a time-consuming and sometimes frustrating process, so how do you maximise your chances of success? In previous articles I've gathered some of the many JISC resources with advice and tips of success. The current JISC call for Learning and Teaching Innovation Grants is accompanied by a ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/christina/2009/06/17/bid-advice-for-learning-and-teaching-innovation-grants/ An article by BBC's Maggie Shiels charts the rise and rise of Twitter, but wonders about the viability of the service - which has yet to make any money. I'm a fan of Twitter (working in a distributed organisation it keeps me in touch with what my colleagues are up to) ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/christina/2009/04/29/can-twitter-survive-the-hype-cycle/ I just came across this post by Michael Calore at Wired about how developers are building applications for the home on the back of Twitter. http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/twitters-hackab.html The idea is that twitter enabled devices around your home and work can send you messages to tell you when the washing machine has finished the ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/christina/2009/02/10/twitter-is-fast-becoming-a-part-of-daily-life/ I came across this article on the Futurelab site in which Jim Fanning, an Assistant Headteacher of a secondary school discusses the use of VLEs in schools. I’ve read a lot about VLEs in HE and FE, but it seems that while VLE use may be on the wane in ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/christina/2008/10/14/jim-fanning-the-digital-panopticon/ I've just listened to the opening keynote from ALT-C 2008 via Eluminate. Hans Rosling Professor of International Health from the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm gave an inspiring talk about the work his company Gapminder.org has done to animate and present world health data in order to increase our understanding of ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/christina/2008/09/09/hans-rosling-inspires-alt-c-with-educational-animations/ Stephen Downes reports that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected all 44 of Blackboard's patent claims. Its a non-final report, which means that Blackboard can appeal. But it's a start. Via OLDaily http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/christina/2008/03/31/us-patent-office-rejects-blackboards-claims/ Yesterday Google announced that it was: joining together with Yahoo! and MySpace in the creation of a non-profit foundation for the open and transparent governance of the OpenSocial specifications and intellectual property. This foundation, modeled after the community-led and industry-supported OpenID Foundation, will seek to ensure that the technology behind OpenSocial ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/christina/2008/03/26/an-opensocial-foundation/