The internet in a day

Here is an infographic that depicts what happens in an internet day. It goes through what happens in one second, one minute, one hour and then calculates the statistics for a day.

It’s interesting, though not – in my opinion – for the statistics in themselves. If big numbers impress you, then you will be impressed. Indeed, those whose mission it is to promote so-called 21st century skills and to prove that the current education system cannot cope with the new reality tend to use statistics like this to prove their point.

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Using the search engine right

previewIndependent e-Learning Consultant Rob Ellis gives some tips on how pupils can use search engines properly.

When Terry tweeted about his post ‘Using the right search engine’ I rather flippantly suggested that he’d be better off simply reordering the words in the title to read ‘Using the search engine right’.

Leaving aside the damage I’ve done to the English language with that there is a serious point here. Despite the prominence given to information literacy I’d say that, anecdotally, there is widespread agreement on its importance but little progress on organised adoption in schools.

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If this, then that

Here’s a web application that’s potentially very useful. IFTTT lets you create your own automated actions using a range of social networking tools. I’ve been messing around with it only for about an hour, so I haven’t thoroughly explored all it has to offer, but already I can see it will prove to have been an excellent investment in time.

The logic of the way it works is as follows:

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Found on the web: 02/17/2011 (a.m.)

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Update on the Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book

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As featured in the TES!

Find out all about the book from here. It’s free!

In case you already know about it, I have a confession:

Thanks to Nyree Scott, of Christ Church University, Canterbury, for pointing out an error to me: Year 1 is 5-6 year olds, not 6-7 year olds. Don't know how I came to make such a daft mistake, but it's all corrected now!

And now for some up-to-date stats:

The Myebook version has been read 2,759 times.

The Slideshare version has been read 625 times.

The Scribd version has been read 586 times.

The YouPublish version has been read 14 times. (Come on, be fair: I only published it there properly last night, and I haven’t even told anyone about until now!)

It has been downloaded 15,143 times.

Some Statistics about the Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book

The Amazing book.

Since its publication in March 2010, the Amazing Web 2.0 projects book has been:

  • Downloaded 14,770 times.
  • Viewed 2,748 times in Myebook.
  • Vewed 544 times in SlideShare.
  • Viewed 429 times in Scribd.

Read more about it here.

Download it by clicking on the link below:

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Thanks to Nyree Scott, of the University of Canterbury, for pointing out an error to me: Year 1 is 5-6 year olds, not 6-7 year olds. Don't know how I came to make such a daft mistake, but it's all corrected now!

Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book Update

A couple of days ago I posted a short article about this free book, and where you can find it. There is now another location. Thanks to Peter Twining and his colleagues at OU Vital, it's now available online in HTML format (though you have to register -- free -- on the Vital website to access it).

 

Peter informs me that people can link to individual sections of the book within the vital community by copying the link for the section in question from the menu that is visible on the left of each page when you are looking at the book.

e.g. http://www.vital.ac.uk/community/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=4286&section=8.10 links to the Global Penpals case study (if you are logged into the Vital Community).
It's quite a nice, easy to use interface, with an index of projects down the left-hand side, as you can see from this screenshot.
The Amazing HTML version

My First Blog Post

As far as I can ascertain, this was my very first blog post. (Not my very first online writing, which had been published around seven years earlier.)

The sad thing is that nothing has changed -- except for the fact that I now receive even more of these inane messages!

22:13 2002-05-22

Make a note of thisToday I had a great email. It started: "Hi [firstname]," and then went on to tell me how this product could make me loads of money.

I should have thought the first step in making pots of money is to find out basic things like your target's name, and perhaps the second thing would be to make sure the mail-merge works.

That's one company that won't be getting my custom (along with all the others whose emails are automatically dumped in my Trash folder -- but that's another story!)