Nick Smith http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog Spotlight on random items from the web Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:25:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Biometrics in Schools This all starts with a seemingly innocuous letter, with the title “Cashless Catering System”, sent to the parents and carers of students from The Crown Woods School in South East London. The first sentence states:

The school is introducing

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]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2011/02/22/on-biometrics-in-schools/ Edward Upton, Who Profits from Excellent Education? My really rough notes from a presentation at #BeBettr. The usual disclaimer applies, things may be inaccurate. Plus uploaded from my iDevice, so expect mistakes.

Of course this talk has some bias because Edward is running just such a…

]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2011/01/14/edward-upton-who-profits-from-excellent-education/ Aral Balkan, Teaching Programming to Kids My really rough notes from Aral Balkan‘s presentation at #BeBettr. The usual disclaimer applies, things may be inaccurate. Plus uploaded from my iDevice, so expect mistakes (have you ever typed HTML through one of these things? Ouch).

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]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2011/01/14/aral-balkan-teaching-programming-to-kids/ Paul Miller, School of Everything My really rough notes from the first presentation at #BeBettr. The usual disclaimer applies, things may be inaccurate. Plus uploaded from my iDevice, so expect mistakes (have you ever typed HTML through one of these things? Jeez).

When it…

]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2011/01/14/paul-miller-school-of-everything/ Justifying font choices Web fonts are nothing new. Support for @font-face has been available since Internet Explorer 4 and the CSS3 specification is being designed to standardise this innovation. So why have I been on such a roller-coaster ride with them?

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]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2010/11/13/justifying-font-choices/ Chris Mills, Web Teaching Day

These are just my notes, there may be inaccuracies. I share them because they’re more useful on the web than sitting in Google Docs. Thoughts, corrections etc, please put them in the comments.

This was the first presentation,

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]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2010/09/12/chris-mills-web-teaching-day/ How not to design, deliver and promote an MA in Web Design These are just my notes, there may be inaccuracies. I share them because they’re more useful on the web than sitting in Google Docs. Thoughts, corrections etc, please put them in the comments.

This was the second presentation from Monday’s…

]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2010/09/12/how-not-to-design-deliver-and-promote-an-ma-in-web-design/ The Web Standardistas These are just my notes, there may be inaccuracies. I share them because they’re more useful on the web than sitting in Google Docs. Thoughts, corrections etc, please put them in the comments.

This was the last presentation before lunch…

]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2010/09/12/the-web-standardistas/ Andy Clarke, Web Teaching Day These are just my notes, there may be inaccuracies. I share them because they’re more useful on the web than sitting in Google Docs. Thoughts, corrections etc, please put them in the comments.

This was the last presentation from yesterday’s…

]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2010/09/07/andy-clarke-web-teaching-day/ What I didn’t know about HTML5 (Plus a little bit of CSS3).

Bruce Lawson from Opera software came to Skillsmatter on Wednesday night to talk about HTML5 (video here). What follows are my notes. I’m not an HTML5 boffin, but I did start to code a…

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