The technical tests of the CitiTag infrastructure in Bristol went very well today! Marc Eisenstadt, Kevin Quick and I joined the Hewlett Packard team in order to test the basic networking around our FlashCom application under the HP Mobile Bristol Framework. CitiTag, the city wifi, PDA, huge scale, GPS-enabled, tag game designed by KMi's Yanna…
Gareth Davies (Advisor Cambs LEA) said: We are … interested in building these facilities into the prototype of the Kids Portal we are creating with DigitalBrain. So far we have 100+ schools signed up who are interested in this development. However, as we discussed, there is no point in doing this if there is no…
Herewith a para contribution for the OU development office on the subject of eLearning from me… —- The Open University is a Virtual University. All modern universities are now keen to exploit the virtual and the online: seeking to understand the impact of the virtual learning experience; to explore how new technology can reach into…
Herewith a para contribution for the OU development office on the subject of eLearning from me… —- The Open University is a Virtual University. All modern universities are now keen to exploit the virtual and the online: seeking to understand the impact of the virtual learning experience; to explore how new technology can reach into…
Interesting phone converstation Rick Flint [mailto:rick.flint@skynet.be] Lead passed on by (c.beasley@open.ac.uk) Cheryl Beasley at the Brussels regional centre. Rick is working for East West Consulting as a business development manager, with a particular focus on projects in the Tacis countries. He is interested in applying for the e-societies project in the South Causasus and has,…
A party of 8 from BNFL will be coming to a workshop on 6th May. The visit is hosted by Corous, and will involve a KMi new technologies and semantic web slot. They are pretty much entirely ftf trainers and Corous is hoping to get them to change that…
Interesting bunch of folks gathered together to tell Pat Manson and her team in the Technology-enhanced learning: cultural heritage Unit at the European Commission about what should be the funding priorities for the next phase (pre–7) of funding. N. Balacheff (from the French MediaLab at Grenoble; tied up just the minute with trying to get…
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLAC) executive ran an away day today at the OU. They had their own business meeting, lunch in KMI with Paul Clarke and a tour of the new library. PJS, PKS and ZZ took part in the KMi visit. Chris Batt is a fan, and has been before ……
Today KMi has launched a web based videoconferencing solution for all Milton Keynes schools under the auspices of MKSchools.Net. Hosted on their own network and based on the CNM Flashmeeting Server the new service is available to all of the 90 Schools in the Milton Keynes area. The MK Schools.Net team, based at the Open…
Bernie Rickinson (Institute of Materials) visited today with Mike Fitzpatrick and Nigel Pigott. Gave him a demo of a few fun things like hex and buddyspace + stadium + magpie etc. He was very interested in the Bletchley park stuff with mobile phones. We are looking into joint stuff we can do to access the…
