January 23, 2009
On Monday the SemTech project had a face to face meeting in London to update on progress with the project and their survey of semantic technologies being used in education.
The day started with Thanassis Tiropanis giving an overview of the project today and in particular the survey site (see previous blog post) which has [...]
January 23, 2009
Last Friday, we held a joint meeting with our colleagues from the Eduserv Foundation entitled “maximising the effectiveness virtual worlds in teaching and learning”. The meeting was a follow on from the joint meeting we held in 2007 and the presenters gave a range of perspectives on the challenges and affordances of using [...]
January 9, 2009
“I, Sheila MacNeill, will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same.”
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, [...]
January 8, 2009
The next stage of the SemTech project (as reported earlier in Lorna’s blog) is now underway. The team are now conducting an online survey of relevant semantic tools and services. The survey website provides a catalogue of relevant semantic tools and services and information on how they relate to education.
If you have an [...]