Firstly,  I think we should all congratulate George Auckland  and his team for breathing new life into the 1984-86 Domesday Project. I have met George several times and have been privileged to hear him to speak at conferences, and have never failed to be moved by his knowledge, modesty and vision. George can now add Domesday Reloaded to his significant achievements.  Domesday Reloaded is a “full extraction of the community disc  – This is the material which has been published online as the centrepiece of the BBC “Domesday Reloaded website.”

Completely new to me, I was not in education or interested in tech in 1986. A marvellous project now brought back to life on the web where you can read text about, and see photos from, ‘blocks’ on the map with contributions from a host of folk including many schools, teachers and pupils. now with the ability to update the blocks. An opportunity for many curricular areas. See Theo Kuechel’s two posts: Digital Signposts: Domesday Reloaded (Part 1) and Domesday Reloaded (Part 2) » for more info.

As the father of eleven and nine year-old boys, I can attest that so far, despite a massive investment on the part of their school in computer equipment, their computer education has consisted mostly of “play this math game” and “don’t be victimized by cyber-perverts”.

David Adams writing on OSnews about the Raspberry Pi Foundation‘s $25 computer. Raspberry

plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children

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I do not know how many teachers of 9 & 11 year olds are capable of teaching programming (Scratch maybe) but it is an interesting idea as is the.
Not much info at Raspberry Pi Foundation yet. I am intrigued that it is a UK based charity but quotes US $.

It seems Twitter has completely removed the ability to consume their feeds via the open standard of RSS in favor of their more proprietary API formats. At the same time, Facebook seems to have done the same.

Rather depressing. Although it seems twitter has buried the RSS feeds rather than killed them. Lack of RSS and ways to get data out has alway put me off Facebook. I followed Dave Winer’s link: Scripting News: RSS and CSS and Zeldman where he says: If you don’t want that to happen, support technologies that preserve choice. Like RSS.

I’ve taken a set of scissors to collect the copyright section of the terms of service for many popular services below to compare. Many have quite similar language to TwitPic; others foreswear all rights.

All Your Pics Are Belong to Us: at image hosting services, Terms and Conditions always apply – Boing Boing by Glenn Fleishman Worth thinking about if you post valued images to online services.

One approach that I’ve seen used with iPads in schools that are not 1:1 is to have enough for a class but rotate them on a long-term basis. Instead of “everyone gets an hour a week”, the approach is “Class X gets them 24×7 for 8 weeks”. That way the teacher can plan work around the frequent use of technology and the kids can deeply engage with the device. It also makes it easier to justify spending time reconfiguring the devices for personalised use.

Comment by Fraser Speirs on Tom Barrett’s post: “An iPad For Every Child in My Class? No Thanks!“