EdTechUK

Black History Month

October is Black History Month in the UK. Theresa has already listed some resources - here's my contribution to the celebration - I'm including both Black and Asian resources.

The Science Museum in London celebrate with a really interesting programme of events for all ages - unfortunately though they haven't thought to provide links from their text to external articles of the people places and subjects they're talking about. They do have resource pages on inventor Garrett Morgan, a mini-site on People and Space, a pdf key stage 2 teachers pack on the Egyptians (their link is broken - use this one) and another pdf on inventor Lewis Latimer.

Planet Science has pages on African Caribbean scientists and mathematicians, including Dr Katherine G Johnson, space navigation pioneer.

Muslim Heritage is an extensive site covering the Islamic Enlightenment, and looking at Muslim contribution the modern world, including science, technology and medicine.

The History of Indian Science covers a lot of ground, or try this extensive wikipedia entry on Science and technology in ancient India.

Intellectual Property induction

Over at Creative Commons (CC), a report on a Goldsmiths College (London, UK) induction week lecture for post-grad research students delivered by Andrea Rota, digital rights activist and Liquid Culture Project member, looking at Intellectual Property rights and CC licensing. The materials (as you'd expect) are available under one of the CC license. It's kind of a bonus that they're looking at CC - the fact that they're taking an approach which prioritizes IP education is a ray of hope: To many institutions providing typically ad-hoc information that usually only manages to cover plagiarism (badly). Now what about the undergrads? 

Skype + iRiver

Equals ingeniously simple audio file construction! Rob Wall of the Edtech Posse has just posted a nice picture of his set up and a handy how too. I'm going home now to try it out. His previous post also rounds up a bunch of other suggestions from Dan Weinstein for recording your Skype conversations and conference calls.

More on multi-user blogs

Readers will probably have already seen D'Arcy Norman and James Farmer's contributions; Robin Good recently got a commission to review multi-user blogs. He compares Silkblogs, Drupal, Manila, 21Publish, Typepad and Wordpress MU - with Drupal coming out as his favorite. The reports should be available in two PDF's but they aren't responding at the moment.

http://soleagent.org/report-full.pdf
http://soleagent.org/report-small.pdf