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The new Samsung LED 9000 TV is here

Don't miss the exclusive launch of the new pencil-thin 7.98mm Samsung LED 9000 TV at Harrods, between 24-30th June.

Inspired by nature, the brushed steel sculpture-like exterior of the LED 9000 echoes sophistication and refinement. Subtle colour tones change to reflect its surroundings. And the translucent neck offers a sense of weightlessness, making it our most beautifull creation to date.

The LED 9000 epitomises our passion for intelligent technology too, with Full HD and 3D immersive viewing capabilities, Mega Contrast ratio, Internet@TV and wireless connectivity as standard.

Visit Harrods between 24-30th June and experience exquisite design, attention to detail and TV viewing at it's ultimate best. Available nationwide from 1st July.

Or simply take a look at the Samsung LED 9000 TV in more detail now.

Test post from my Blog

This is a Test post from my Blog at 21:27 on 24/06/2010

LLUK calls for more providers to embed technology in their teaching

"Nearly half of adults would feel more confident using technology in the workplace if it had been incorporated more into their education and training, according to a new survey."

LLUK calls for more providers to embed technology in their teaching - FE News

The way forward after Becta

"It is too late to save Becta now that the new Conservative-Liberal coalition has signed the warrant. But what can and should be rescued and how can the core essentials be carried on? Devolution of decision making down to individual and institutional levels must not mean the loss of collective knowledge and understanding of what works in ICT for further education and skills."

Seb Schmoller of ALT talked to FE News about the demise of Becta, read the full article.

21st Century Teaching Ideas

21st Century Teaching Ideas is a blog with some great ideas and resources to get you thinking about using modern technology in your lessons. From novel ideas to software tips there is something for the new teacher through to the technophobe.

http://teaching21c.blogspot.com/

Overcoming the barriers to educational innovation

I have just been reading this article on the Becta Emerging Technologies website.

"Overcoming the barriers to educational innovation" is a report on end-user innovation as a crucial approach to developing new practices and approaches.

This report recognises that the practice of creating solutions to individual problems, on an individual level, is an act of innovation. But also that learning from these individual acts can support wider, system level innovation – not through rolling-out the innovation that occurred on the individual level, but by supporting greater numbers of local level ‘end-user innovators’.

Existing studies have examined barriers to innovation for both institutions and the individuals who operate in them. Increasingly they have highlighted the interactivity of factors that are considered barriers to innovation. The relationship between each of these areas is unique to each school and each innovation.

Presented in this review are two models to explore this the ‘Distance and Dependence’ model, and the ‘Layers of Influence’ model. Initially the Distance and Dependence model gives clarity to understanding such educational innovations in context, by depicting how an innovation can be understood as its distance from current practice and dependence on available resources.

Click here to read more about "Overcoming the barriers to educational innovation" and download the report.

E-assessment and innovation

Appearing on the Becta Emerging Technologies website is an article introducing a report on E-assessment and innovation by John Winkley

It is described as an authoritative survey of a technology which, perhaps like virtual reality, has not come of age as quickly as expected.

A wide-ranging overview describes current and future applications of on-screen examinations, audio, text editing, adaptive assessment, games and simulations, short text answer marking, essay marking, spoken language marking, mathematics marking and voting devices.

John Winkley argues that e-assessment has potential to be transformational in developing the benefits of immediate results and improved feedback, interactivity and richness of ICT for more authentic assessment, e-assessment as an enabler of better assessment and as a democratising influence on the assessment process which also encompasses diversity.

You can read more and download the report from the Becta website.