A review of this book will feature in the next edition of Computers in Classrooms.

The subtitle of Twitter Means Business is 'How microblogging can help or hurt your company'. If you regard yourself, or your school, as a brand, the concern is exactly the same as for a company.

There is always a danger with any book of this nature that it will date as new applications come, and old ones go. However, the author has managed to side-step this possibility very deftly, by the simple expedient of focusing more on using Twitter than the various applications built around it.

Thus the first five chapters are concerned with examples and case studies of how companies in all sorts of sectors have used Twitter.

For the remainder of this review, please see Computers in Classrooms December 2009.

What's a book on writing doing in a publication about educational ICT? Looked at from one point of view it's completely out of place. However, that is not the only perspective available. Much of the ICT curriculum centres on the concept of audience. Whether it's preparing a presentation for a particular audience, or responding to user feedback, the work requires an attention to someone other than oneself, and something other than the technology. Peter Bowerman, the author of TWFW, has managed to forge a living out of writing. It follows, therefore, that he may be able to teach us something about audience....

For the remainder of this review, please see the December 2009 issue of Computers in Classrooms.

... What I especially like about it is that it takes a very common sense approach, and draws parallels with teens of previous generations. What it says, in effect, is "Hey, you were a teenager once! Remember what you got up to?!"

Read the full review in the December 2009 issue of Computers in Classrooms.

It's tempting, when picking up a book for the first time, to skip the introduction and go straight for the 'meat'. However, it's usually worth investing a bit of time in reading it, to find out where the author is coming from. In the case of 'Wikified Schools', this is a good use of time, if only for the sentences:

"In order to improve student learning, we must be model learners. We must be lead learners."

Read the full review in the December 2009 issue of Computers in Classrooms.

Reviewed by Neil Howie

We have entered the era of the net generation, those between the ages of 11 and 30 who have never known a world without PCs/Macs or mobile phones or other devices (that often baffle me) being part of their everyday life.

Don Tapscott has spent his academic life researching and evaluating how best to approach and understand the different way that the net generation think and act.

Read the full review in the December 2009 issue of Computers in Classrooms.

The Making of a Digital World has a very promising subtitle: The Evolution of Technological Change and How It Shaped Our World. It sounds like a more academic version of Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' – and in many respects it is.

Read the full review in the December 09 issue of Computers in Classrooms newsletter.

See Free, by Chris Anderson - A Non-Review for my thoughts on this book.

See Review of The Edge of Madness for my views of this book.

I haven't actually read this book, but I used to read the Ted Wragg column every week. I've alluded to this in my article about Lucy Kellaway.