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Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:21:09 GMT

russelldyas.com: Highlight For 24th December – The Twitter Way

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:31:29 GMT

Something slightly different this week instead of a video we have an MP3 file from the USENIX LISA (Large Installation System Admin) Conference 2010. The audio is of a session called Operations at Twitter: Scaling Beyond 100 Million Users. The presenter is John Adams who is charge of operations at Twitter. The reason I [...]

russelldyas.com: Promethean to Unveil New Pen and ‘Touchboard’ at BETT 2011

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:31:29 GMT

Global education company, Promethean, has announced it will unveil its next generation, ActivBoard 500 Pro-series, at BETT 2011 in January. The launch of the new interactive whiteboard introduces, for the first time, leading-edge technology that allows the board to be operated simultaneously by both pen and ‘gesture’ touch. The ActivBoard 500 will enable the use [...]

russelldyas.com: Microsoft Confirms What We Already Expected – UK students are self-learning at home

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:31:29 GMT

The majority of students in the UK are not being taught the necessary IT skills to prepare them for future employment, according to research carried out by Microsoft (see notes to editors for detailed research). The Microsoft Education Future Workforce research found that ‘Generation Five’ (16 to 18-year-olds currently in education) question the approach taken [...]

russelldyas.com: Epson Release New Products At BETT

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:31:29 GMT

Epson today launches a range of installation and desktop projectors for education and business users: the EB-93E, EB-93, EB-95, EB-96W, EB-905, EB-915W and EB-925. Epson clain the series delivers a perfect picture in all light conditions, and has smart features to make presentations more effective. Easy to install and use, the projectors enable users to focus [...]

russelldyas.com: NETGEAR calls on IT industry to stop over-selling to schools

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:31:29 GMT

Expert panel agrees that culture of ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ is leading schools to falsely invest in IT The global networking company today issued a call to the IT industry to stop attempting to sell ‘big IT’ into British schools after an expert panel agreed that the education industry is not receiving the advice and [...]

russelldyas.com: Spiceworks New IPhone App & New Features Coming Soon

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:31:29 GMT

Spiceworks have now released the new Iphone application. It provides a single application interface to all of your Spiceworks installation. You can download it on the ITunes Store Also Nic over At Spiceworks has released some spoliers on the new version of Spiceworks Multi-Threading Support - Changes have been made to the webserver and [...]

russelldyas.com: The Countdown Has Begun

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:31:29 GMT

If you were at the EduGeek.net conference at the Microsoft HQ, or read the thread on EduGeek.net you would have seen I am retiring as the EduGeek.net Admin. However I am also leaving my current job working at Limehurst High School. The reason is that as from the 1st April I am starting a new [...]

russelldyas.com: Test Post For BETT Lowdown

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:31:29 GMT

This is a test for BETT lowndown app.

russelldyas.com: This Current Is In Beta

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:31:29 GMT

Hello This Google Current is in beta status whilst I update it…

russelldyas.com: New Year & Catch Up Time

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:31:29 GMT

It has been a while since posted here mainly due to me starting at Impero it has been a manic few months and this last month the whole place has been working hard on getting ready for BETT 2012 However it does mean that this blog has got neglected a bit however I have got [...]

Bookmarks: Rob Della Fortuna on Losing Weight with Social Networks | Quantified Self

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:54:30 GMT

this is our first video from the lively QS Toronto group! Rob Della Fortuna is a coder who likes to eat donuts. He had tried different diets to try to lose weight, with various hilarious results. After some research, Rob found Fitocracy, a social network that turns fitness into a game, and has found it motivating to improve his health. Watch his story in the video below, followed by an active discussion of different food and fitness tracking tools.

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Bookmarks: MIT OpenCourseWare | Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation | PE.550 Designing Your Life, Spring 2009 | Home

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:41:15 GMT

his course provides an exciting, eye-opening, and thoroughly useful inquiry into what it takes to live an extraordinary life, on your own terms. The instructors address what it takes to succeed, to be proud of your life, and to be happy in it. Participants tackle career satisfaction, money, body, vices, and relationship to themselves. They learn how to confront issues in their lives, how to live life, and how to learn from it.

A short version of this course meets during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month. Then this semester-long extension of the IAP course is taught to interested members of the MIT community. This not-for-credit course is sponsored by the Department of Science, Technology, and Society. A similar, semester-long version of this course is taught in the Sloan Fellows Program.

Acknowledgment
The instructors would like to thank Prof. David Mindell for his sponsorship of this course, his hopes for its continued expansion, and his commitment to the well-being of MIT students.

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Bookmarks: Free Online Course Materials | Sloan School of Management | MIT OpenCourseWare

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:36:24 GMT

MIT Sloan is a world-class business school long renowned for thought leadership and the ability to successfully partner theory and practice.

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Bookmarks: Free Online Course Materials | Brain and Cognitive Sciences | MIT OpenCourseWare

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:33:08 GMT

The human brain is the most complex, sophisticated, and powerful information-processing device known.

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Bookmarks: To Sleep on the Subway, Maybe, but to Dream? Poor Chance - NYTimes.com

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:29:58 GMT

A ride on the New York subway can be a sensory overload: musicians perform for change; conductors plead to those who hold open train doors to relent; and passengers, often in unimaginably close proximity, subject one another to all sorts of sights, sounds, smells and touches, preferably inadvertent.

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Bookmarks: TEDxIowaCity - Dr. Terry Wahls - Minding Your Mitochondria - YouTube

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:25:54 GMT

Dr. Terry Wahls learned how to properly fuel her body. Using the lessons she learned at the subcellular level, she used diet to cure her MS and get out of her wheelchair.

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Bookmarks: Windows Server User Group » A Community Project.

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:47:31 GMT

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Bookmarks: Ofsted Forum | ConcertEd

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:46:48 GMT

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Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:46:28 GMT

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