The Internet as you've never seen it before!

One of the simplest - but best - uses of technology I have came across in this job is the use of smartgroups by computing teachers. Basically, any teacher who wants to can join a smartgroup for a particular course, giving them access to hundreds of fellow colleagues via a simple email distribution list.

Quite often, it pays dividends. Today was one of those days. Many thanks to Kathryn Brown, who posted a link to warriorsofthe.net on the Higher Info Sys smartgroup - a free to download animation film that helps to explain how data is sent across the internet in an abstract way. If you have broadband, it's well worth a download to see a difficult subject presented in such a novel way. The video is 12 mins long, perfect for the start of a lesson, which can then be followed by further exemplification of the subject.

Now, if only they would also cover anti-virus, search algortihms, ... :-)