Devices Lend a Learning Hand
Naturally people are sceptical, but I think this initiative that gives kindergarten students the opportunity to use Palm Pilots in their studies is a good one. For one thing, it's a lot cheaper than buying them computers. They can use them outdoors. It gets them ready for when they're older and Palms (or their equivalent) will be in everyday use. More...

Amphetadesk
So much for my morning. Oh well. Amphetadesk is "a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator - it obediently sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable!) webpage... with thousands of channels available." If you are viewing OLDaily in HTML, you will see an Amphetadesk icon at the bottom. More...

How to Send Email

One of the many reasons for writing your own software is that you discover how to do simple tasks that would otherwise require complicated, sometimes expensive, and usually restrictive software. Sending email is a case in point. More...

GooFresh

This is pretty cool. It is an interface to Google that supports date based searching. This means that you can access results that have been added in, say, the last day or the last week. More...

Moodle
From the website: "Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites (including this one). Moodle is an ongoing research and development project designed to support a social constructionist pedagogy. Moodle is given away freely as Open Source software (under the GNU Public License). More...

Software Group's Anti-Piracy Campaign Targets Students
OK, this is pure propaganda, designed to support a political and economic agenda, that is being distributed as a free "curriculum". The message is that the practice that the promoters call software "piracy" is morally wrong. More...

TechLearn Will Close
According to Seb Schmoller (I can't find independent confirmation at JISC or on Google), "TechLearn will close. JISC announced, on 23/12/2002, that its TechLearn Centre, based at the University of York will cease operations in July 2003. The Centre acted as a source of information and advice to the JISC community on how best to take advantage of the new technologies for learning and teaching and how these technologies might impact on strategic and operational planning. More...

Learning and Teaching Information Technology: Computer Skills in Context

Although today's students are raised on computer screens and internet access, the authors argue, they may not be prepared to use the interne. More...

There are No Things. There are patterns.
Jenny Mackness, Jenny Connected, 2018/03/16
I've said in the past that knowledge is recognition, and if I were pressed to describe what I think truth is, I would say that it is a strong feeling of recognition. This I think is consistent with what the early empiricists (like David Hume) would say. Formally, truth is an attitude toward a proposition: we say that a propositoon is 'true' or 'not true' and then try to explain that through an interpretation (such as Tarski's theory of truth, or model theory, or some such thing). More...