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Collaboration/Mobile Learning: Just putting you through
Mobile phones are helping to connect isolated and technologically deprived schools to a wealth of learning resources, Professor Stephen Heppell reports
Collaboration: Digital recycling
Recycled computers from Computer Aid are boosting learning opportunities for pupils in Kenya, Simon Birch reports
Collaboration: Information harvest
People in Uganda are literally starving for information. Dorothy Walker discovers how UK schools can help
Collaboration: Join the party
Online collaboration is the best way forward argues Stephen Heppell - the man who claims to have put the ‘C’ in ICT
Collaboration: Key to success
Kenya students are gaining keyboard skills without having to rely on electricity, thanks to Keyboard Crazy. George Cole investigates
Extended Learning: Sky's the limit
Hugh John discovers that East Manchester students can tune in to the internet for their home learning thanks to a service being beamed to them from local tower blocks, thanks to the eLearning Foundation
Feature: A show of force
George Cole reflects on some of the outstanding products on show at
this year's BETT
Feature: Always-on learning
The 24/7 learning society is an exciting prospect, but poses some interesting challenges say Janet Roberts and Terry Freedman
Feature: Apple in transition
If you plan to buy Apple's MacBook Pro, make sure your favourite software fits the "universal" bill first, says Cliff Joseph
Feature: Becta’s Creativity in Digital Media Awards 2006
Standards at the final Creativity in Digital Media Awards were higher than ever. Jack Kenny was on the judging panel and reports that deliberations were equally intense
Feature: Duck and cover
Theft of valuable technology, and in particular data projectors, from schools is on the increase, as reported by George Cole in the March 10 issue of TES Online
Feature: Google - more than just a search engine
Arnold Evans visited London’s Googleplex, to play with their toys. They bowled him a googlie and now he’s a fan
Feature: How do you like them Apples?
There are many differences between the Isle of Man and the rest of the UK - even in ICT.  Jack Kenny discovers why the island's schools prefer Apple Macs to PCs
Feature: Keep it clean
Sheyne Lucock discovers the hidden costs of owning an LCD projector
Feature: Teachers are doing it for themselves
Forget all the posturing and talking by gurus and advisers, says Jack Kenny, the people to listen to are those that are actually doing it… teachers
Feature: The power of text
Teachers sending text messages to parents about their children? Now there’s an idea. More than that, it’s actually happening in more and more schools, Gerald Haigh reports 
Feature: Too much bread and Jam
The influx of money through eLCs and the introduction of BBC Jam have saturated the software market, says George Cole
Feature: White elephants?
Do interactive whiteboards improve teaching and learning? Not necessarily, says Steve Higgins of the Research Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Handheld Learning: Handheld learning comes of age
John Galloway reports from the Handheld Learning 2005 conference at Goldsmiths College, London
ICT in Practice Awards 2005: Advice and Support winner
"ICT has opened up so many avenues for us - and much of that is down to Norman Crawford and his team."
ICT in Practice Awards 2005: Collaboration winner
Karen Goddard smiles when the Nottinghamshire Education Business Alliance (NEBA) is described as a "dating agency". Like developing any relationship, bringing together the worlds of education and business has never been easy.
ICT in Practice Awards 2005: Foundation and Primary leadership winner
"We invest in people, not just technology," says Harold Brownlow, whose inspired leadership has sustained a highly successful campaign to help everyone in his school reap the benefits of ICT.
ICT in Practice Awards 2005: Secondary Leadership winner
For Mary McLaughlin the best feature of ICT in schools is that it lets teachers finally discard Henry Ford's mass-market philosophy: "You can have any colour you want as long as it's black."
ICT Initiatives: ICT support for and by schools
The ICT Register is bringing schools together via an online database, reports George Cole
Practical Advice: Build your own PC
Hugh John uncovers the best way to get the computer you want at the price you want!
RMX'05 Awards ceremony: Young music producers rewarded
Sebastian Lander was at Apple's RMX’05 awards designed to give young music producers a chance to demonstrate their skills
SAM Learning: Play it again Sam, and again
Chris Johnston looks at what's driving the rise and rise of SAM Learning
Software: Get plugged in
Hugh John looks at the wide range of plug-in effects available for Photoshop
Strategy: Is there a UK learning grid?
George Cole looks at the renamed National Grid for Learning... the National Education Network
Strategy:Giant steps to 21st century learning
Michael Stevenson has taken up the government’s key role in educational ICT. Jack Kenny talks to him about the view from the hub
Training: The friendly atom
Jack Kenny discover the perfect approach to just-in-time training... Atomic Learning

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