Keitai

I was quite excited to find KitZu a few days back [via Dave Warlick. ] The brainchild of Hall Davidson, Kitzu provides digital kits for education which can include images, video, audio and (I assume) text—all in a convenient zipped format complete with source manifest.
We’ve been thinking about kits for a while. In fact, [...]

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The BBC never ceases to amaze me. Check out the 60 Second Shakespeare competition for UK kids. The site include loads of tips for budding film-makers including, getting started, acting, directing, and some great photostories for inspiration. There’s also an extensive teacher’s section with lesson plans and tips.
And finally—there’s a (WAP) mobile version of [...]

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We have this bad habit of having breakfast while checking feeds and reading mail. (With two geeks in the family—what can you do?)
This morning we actually stopped and listened to last night’s informative and lively conversation between edu-tech-bloggers Wesley Fryer (Lubbock, Texas,) Darren Kuropatwa (Winnipeg, Canada,) Ewan McIntosh (Edinburgh, Scotland,) Miguel Guhlin (San [...]

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This is one of those little sites that I just know will come in handy one day. FamFamFam.com, "personal site and web playground of Birmingham (UK) based developer Mark James,…offers 700 16-by-16 pixel icons in strokably-soft PNG format."
There are several collections to choose from and the whole lot is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution [...]

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New from Project Gutenberg.

History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe
On the origin of species by Charles Darwin [sadly no illustrations but there's a large list of Darwin work, some of which must include illustrations]
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo [in French plus lots of other works (English and French) including [...]

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I’ve found my new favourite web application. Planiglobe is the creation of a company in Germany. It allows you to make and label a map then download it in Postscript or Illustrator 7 format (complete with layers!) An admin panel allows you turn certain layers (like province names, country borders, cities etc.) on or off [...]

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A few days back, Alex Hayes posed some interesting thoughts and comments about mobile learning on the Teach and Learn Online group. In particular, this caught my eye…

Please tell me I’m wrong and that there are trials underway in 2006 that are examining and IMPLEMENTING curriculum using student generated re-purposed content - stuff that’s [...]

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A trial project in Scotland will set up a series of solar powered lampposts to serve as wi-fi hotspots at the University of Abertay. More here from the BBC. [via Musings of a Mobile Marketer]

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