Month: August 2007

Did You Know? 2.0 UK version – it exists!

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Doug Belshaw

I’m delighted to report that, thanks to the some pointing-in-the-right-direction by Scott McLeod and generosity on behalf of Ray Fleming (Microsoft’s UK Marketing Manager) I’ve found a UK version of the Did You Know? 2.0 presentation:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeoKQbT8BKs]

If you’d like to download a version for offline version or the Powerpoint to edit, visit Ray Fleming’s blog. He’ll provide you with a link to the music used as well if you ask him nicely via the email address given on the blog post linked to above. 😀

Google Phone

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Doug Belshaw

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So it turns out that the rumours are probably true and that Google are making a mobile operating system to power mobile phones. No big surprises there – I already use their GMail and Google Maps application on my Nokia N95, whilst catching up with my RSS feed reading through the (mobile) web-based version of Google Reader. I’m pleased to see that the probable manufacturer for such a device would be HTC, maker of the SPV range of mobile phones that go under the Orange brand in the UK. Continue reading “Google Phone”

SMART Notebook interactive viewer

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Doug Belshaw

SMART Technologies, the company who make the popular SMART interactive whiteboards have relased the free SMART Notebook interactive viewer. This enables content to be shared with any other make of interactive whiteboard. This is going to be very handy for schools who have taken a somewhat ad-hoc approach to purchasing, or for those of us who share resources, as with the historyshareforum. 🙂 (via it4L)