Archive for August 1st, 2007

01
Aug
07

IBM Virtual World Guidelines

IBM have published a “Code of Conduct” for employees who venture into Virtual worlds, to all round excitement in the blogosphere. It’s interesting enough – not the least because they’re encouraging it. You kind of think of IBM as a big, rather unprepossessing lump, but they did the same for blogging a while back – and a lot of people stole their ideas.

IBM believes that virtual worlds and other 3D Internet environments offer significant opportunity to our company, our clients and the world at large, as they evolve, grow in use and popularity, and become more integrated into many aspects of business and society. As an innovation-based company, IBM encourages employees to explore responsibly and to further the development of such new spaces of relationship-building, learning and collaboration. As we engage in these new environments, IBMers should follow and be guided first and foremost by our values and our Business Conduct Guidelines.

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01
Aug
07

web2: opportunity or challenge for IT Support

Not sure I necessarily agree with the tone – Adapt or Die is a little over the top – but an interesting enough presentation. Done with Slideshare which is more to the point – free – totally online – taggable and easily embedded.

01
Aug
07

Statetris – rote learning 21st Century Style

Might as well start off with something simple and fun that works. This is a very simple mash-up of Tetris and a map of the US; slot the States in the right place against the clock. I started off with a time of 11:50 (“What planet do you come from!”) and after about 2 hours (it’s quite addictive) ended up with a score of 2:26 (“Your surname must be Columbus!”). I very definitely know where Oregon is now though, ( and if you want a little tip for dealing with Wisconsin….no, that would be spoiling it :)

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01
Aug
07

Getting Started

The Soap Dish is where I’ll post links to tools – online resources or commentary relating to Web2 in education. Effectively it’ll be where I filter my feeds and flag up stuff that stands out for me. Posting using the Deepest Sender plugin for Firefox. WordPress is new to me so it’ll take a while for me to work out what the widgits do, but hey – nice themes!