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Looking at today's e-mail although the ALT-C 2007 conference is finished, well I am home as only a short hop to Derby, I thought this product release could not go unmentioned. The new range of iPods includes the iPod touch which is WiFi enabled and in view of the interesting points that Dylan Wiliam made during his keynote address (Link to page for link to talk not the 75Mb download!) the feasibility of multiple question answers onto web pages then aggregated during a class session become an immediate possibility.
Like the iPhone it looks to be based on the use of the Mac OSX operating system which will enable developers to create small apps for in class question feedback at the touch of an iPod. Is this the tool that will take the iPod a stage further?
As the owner of an iPod Photo I couldn't see a reason to upgrade to the iPod video the iPod touch is a different animal and if I can surf the web why not web based telephony and no need for the iPhone which would solve the European mess of which mobile phone company to collaborate with? I am sure there are even more possibilities. PS Thanks for a great conference it was my first but definitely won't be my last with best wishes to all especially other bloggers.

OK so I don't personally like peanut butter but cheese and marmalade wouldn't go down well as a name. Although I have Mediawiki on my website pbwiki for educational use is very easy to set up and use. We are currently using it as part of the Postgraduate Programme for Learning and Teaching at the University of Derby, more feedback on how it works in a later blog.

Check out the PBwiki tour!
Create your own wiki at http://www.pbwiki.com or
Link to
http://educators.pbwiki.com/PBwiki-educator-videos

There is a lot of talk about the possibilities for what is termed Web 2.0 as if it is a new reality as if something is going to change and we will all have to upgrade. It is more a matter of greater flexibility and personalisation and accessing materials and posting them via existing and improved tools.

If you are already using blogs, rss feeds, uploading photographs and using wikis and other tools you are nigh on Web 2.0 enabled. The problem in the long term will be what people do with the ability to integrate and access more easily. We should be creating more useful content and content will be less reliant (sorry for certain folks) on designers and probably less reliant (sorry to another crew) on IT services.

Even now you could probably do everything you need through a web browser. As a lecturer I could create web pages through a browser and display them in class, type up notes through a browser. I already find I am using browsers more and more to integrate what I do on the internet from uploading onto a moodle, using a weblog such as this, putting material that needs regularly revising onto a wiki. I will add more to this but am publishing now via Flock.