January, 2007

TechDis HEAT Programme Report Submitted

Our TechDis HEAT scheme project report has now been submitted. The project aimed to investigate the use of the Nintendo DS and Brain Training package as a study support tool to assist students requiring help with numeracy skills during the autumn term of 2006. The outcomes have been very interesting and we hope to continue this project in a wider context seeking the top up kit requested in our original bid to investigate further educational uses of the Nintendo DS Lite in the near future….

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Edinburgh PDA’s

A big project to put PDA’s into schools in Edinburgh, Scotland

BBC News

Marketers Feverish Over Viral Ads

A conference devoted to word-of-mouth marketing….

Wired On Virals

NY Times On Second Life

More press on Second Life….

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Ellis on A Second Life

Warren Ellis – a comic book/graphic novel writer (check out his great run on The Authority from Wildstorm as an example) – is due to begin posting about Second Life on Reuters site later this month…

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Thanks to Intellagirl on the SL Educators email list