So we are now at Tuesday evening – however the ideas, buzz, sense of community and collaboration that surrounded Start Up Weekend London is still with me! When I was asked to be a mentor at this event, I really did not have any idea about what the weekend would be ‘like’, it is true [...]

Here are my nominations for this years 2011 Edublog awards :      Best Individual Blog: Learning with ‘e’s by Steve Wheeler aka @timbuckteeth  All of his blog posts are both challenging and engaging. Best Individual Tweeter:   Julian Wood aka @ideasfactory  his tweets are always engaging and point to lots of useful links and thinking. Best Twitter hashtag: [...]

YOuny – graduates from LSE – identified problem – of finding knowledge – Youny – offers to connect knowledge – starts presentation with great video.  problem is that can be lack of peer support and collaboration with students at universities today – using new tech you can conquer that problem – Youni is an online [...]

Knowledge Muffin – Learn the world in bite sized treats! Start of with asking if you want to learn about financial crisis – you would look at wikipedia – this rolls on for a while and probably would not learn a lot – perhaps you want an online course to help you learn about the [...]

Question blast – questionblast.com Starting presentation with live demo of product that they have created! Problem is you need to know what students have learned.  They have been mainly looking st University education – ‘it is very important to have a measure for understanding’ spoke to lecturers for quotes.  Solutions is quick time polls, real [...]

Tiny Ears – Read-Speak-Listen- Learn Interactive iPad story book for children who are moving from reading individual words to stories. When start app – words are highlighted in green as child read word moves on – if a child read word wrong word turns red if got wrong – at end of story there is [...]

Presenting a documentary on how to teach creativity in school – what is the purpose of education? Not a tech product but a documentary – our world is full of problems – if we don’t give tools to children to enable them to solve problems what will the world look like in the future.  Presenting [...]

Fresh Thinkers – The new Research Marketplace Fresh thinkers link together students, researchers and companies that enables research to take place that has a real impact in real life.  Act as a research match maker – matching business with students – students can get funding.  Over 578,700 master and PHd students a year on average [...]

Night Zoo Keeper – awaken their imagination. Paul – primary teacher who is passionate about getting creativity into the classroom.  Night Zoo keeper is an online platform that enables children o create their art upload and create stories on an online platform.  Mentioning stats from Heathfield and improvement in results from blogging – also have [...]

Tutorspring – quality local tutors – the web 2.0 marketplace for learners to find quality local tutors. Private tuition market is growing fast problem is that there is no easy way to find perfect tutor – with CRB checks, qualifications etc. TutorSpring looking to present  a one stop shop for all subjects and needs with [...]