FLOSS,Resource         No comments

This year many around the world will experience the very first ‘Open Education Week’ from March 5th till March 10th. The purpose is to ‘raise awareness on the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide.’
‘Open education is about sharing, reducing barriers and increasing access in education’ …

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As a new parent it’s always amazing how I start to compare how I would deal with situation if so and so was our child. Over the recent past I have seen so many parents use tablet computers as pacifiers. All I can see is kids playing mindless games such …

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Are you aware that:

26% of children report having a public social networking profile.
Children of all ages are lacking digital skills – confidence is often not matched by skill!
One in eight parents don’t seem to mediate their children’s online activities…
44% of children think that parental mediation limits what they do online, …

 Google,Social Networks,Web 2.0         No comments

Google Plus aka Google+ or G+ is a new attempt by Google to enter the social network market. It’s previous attempts such as Orkut and Buzz had failed to launch. Google’s answer to Facebook is a combination of it’s other products such as Google Buzz and Profiles but with lots …

 Misc,Resource,Web 2.0         No comments

Holidays are coming up soon and everyone knows, when it’s holiday time, we tend to let ourselves go a little. Whether it’s staying up late watching a movie with snacks or simply eating out because you have no work to think about.
I know I have been there, where the night …

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Most major IT companies do it, Google does it, Amazon does it and Apple will be doing it. What am I talking about? I am talking about ‘The Cloud’ or what is more commonly known as ‘Cloud Computing’.
Cloud computing simply put, is working, searching, documenting and playing on the ‘Cloud’ …

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Below is the official message from Apple about the death of its co-founder and former CEO.

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It’s a new beginning to a new year; well at least for the kids and teachers who are about to embark on a new academic year.  For many I know the time for resolutions start in January. I would suggest you start your new resolutions with starting your resolutions in …

 Misc         No comments

Are we green enough? No I am not talking about the colour of our TV, mobile phone or our laptop but a technology that tries to conserve the natural environment and to curb the negative impacts of human involvement.
I suppose it’s the last thing on our minds when trying to …

 Email,Google,Social Networks         2 comments

Facebook has recently delivered what they have been promising for a while now and that is, integration of email and text within your existing Facebook account. They have kept it simple. Your Facebook username becomes your email, so for example the username of “AtifHussain” will automatically have the email address …