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If you’ve got a Sixth Form, you’ll want to know… XMA and Toshiba have launched a competition, called “ The next Bill Gates ”. In a world of competitions and campaigns all the time, it’s a bit of a “ does what it says on the tin ” competition. It’s for
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Is your school working on programmes which extend access to learning through ICT at home? You might be interested in nominating yourself for the Home Access Awards , being run by the e-learning foundation. The criteria for the awards doesn’t necessarily
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Normally by this point in term, with half-term just around corner, then often the answer is “YES”, but with so many schools closed for so many days these last fortnight, perhaps half-term next week doesn’t quite have the same magic as normal. But, just
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Every year we run a global competition called the Imagine Cup . It has traditionally been aimed at university students, and each year one team from the UK has made it to the global finals, held in a far-away place (okay, France last year, but Egypt in
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Alan Richards sent me the link to his Photosynth, taken in one of the IT suites at his school - West Hatch High School in Essex. For being the first to tackle my competition , he wins the first goody bag. There’s another goody bag waiting for the best
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You may recall me blogging the ‘Next-Gen PC’ competition last year , aimed at getting people to think outside of the (beige/black/silver) box for computer design. Well, the winners have been announced, and the amazing Napkin PC is the winner. It uses
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Over the last three months we’ve invited people to submit their designs for computer systems that demonstrate creativity as well as tackling real social, human interest problems experienced by charities large and small: such as contributing to the battle
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We're working on updating our UK Education website and we'd like to know what you think of it as it is now - what works and what doe sn't? Apart from accessing the blogs, do you even visit it and is the information relevant to you? If you don't visit
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We're working on updating our UK Education website and we'd like to know what you think of it as it is now - what works and what doe sn't? Apart from accessing the blogs, do you even visit it and is the information relevant to you? If you don't visit
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Every year Becta run the ICT Excellence Awards, which aims to identify (and reward) schools throughout the UK who, in Becta's words are "approaching ICT in outstanding or innovative ways, benefiting their whole community both inside and outside the school
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The Films for Learning (FFL) project has been inspiring schools for two years now to create their own educational videos and share them with others online. As sponsors of FFL, Microsoft has helped to re-launch their collaborative website and online community
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Climate change and sustainability - these issues are at the forefront of most people's minds nowadays as it becomes more and more obvious that we need to change the way we live. In the long-term, changing the way young people relate to the planet we live
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I know it's half-term. And that means that one of the great things about it is that the corridors are quiet, and you get a chance to hear yourself thinking. But not everybody wants you forgetting your students.... As part of the Byron Review of Children
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One of our education partners, Ergo, have just told me about the competition they are going to run at the BETT Show in January. If you visit their stand (B100) in the main hall, you can enter their prize draw to win either a fully implemented secondary
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Over the years I've seen many "radical" designs for new PCs - I vividly remember being shown an Intel design for a PC that sat inside a leopard-print footstool, designed for the home (sadly, the design was a little premature then, because PCs were still
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