I just found out that I’m one of about 20,000 people in Australia working in the area of information and communication technology in education ( [link] ). That’s a lot of us. My first reaction was, why aren’t we having a bigger impact? Turns out this figure is actually only 3.71% of all the nations ICT workers, so maybe thats why. See, easy!

Hi everyone – well the amount of schools looking at trialing the iPad has just exploded since the device came. There link]. US iPad school pilot program wiki. link]. iPad in schools Q&A site. link] /. UK detailed blog of unfolding ipad trial: [link] /.

Its hard to deny that in the book that tells how computing has become more and more mobile such that its already almost ubiquitous, the current chapter would be titled ‘tablets’. The iPad is selling over 1 million devices a month, and it seems that conversely, about a million different Android tablets get announced each week. What can they do?

In the Big Question launched by Tony Karrer this month , he wonders how we use Text-to-Speech (TTS) in our courses? He also reflects on budget and the combination of TTS and the text that can be shown, but I will only look at when and how I have been using TTS. If you have not used TTS in your courses yet, have a look.

We’ve recently been delivering simple content just-in-time for access through the websites that are designed to run on mobile devices. It was easier said than done, here are some lessons we picked up along the way. One goal of the design would be identifying target devices that potential users will have. Almost all major platforms have emulators.

Every year (since 2007), Jane Hart from the Center for Learning & Performance Technologies (or C4LPT ) is getting all of us on board to get our top 10 learning list together. It is a wonderful list created by inputs from all of us, so add your tools to it. Here is my daily newspaper: Ignatia Webs Daily. flickr) depending on the file type.