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Ruth and Hannah Allconsuming is a useful add-on to my blog, acting as a way of sharing and displaying what I'm reading, watching and lis...

Black I love my Blackberry and have, so far, successfully resisted the i-phone. But it looks as if the handheld is about to really take off...

ready or not Well that's a damn fine description of technology. I came across it marking a student dissertation that quotes Gipson, who ...

casual n . The second edition of Desirable Literacies is out! I know because Jackie had a copy on her desk. I have a chapter there on early ...

Stunning I’ve been participating in this ESRC Seminar Series, which is generating useful session reports. This is the first one. I like Nei...

text wear We’ve got quite used to seeing writing on clothing. We have labels on the outside, slogans, names of bands and sports stars, and (...

red shoes I keep on reading things that work on the assumption that ICT or the internet is a unitary, autonomous phenomenon. Now I’ve always...

Friends Reading Living with the Djins I was reminded of what the Muslim kids I used to teach told me about the good angel and the bad angel....

Oscar The ever-active Colin and Michele have just launched the New Literacies wiki. This is it! It looks great to me and they’ve already co...

Whatever next? This project explores how knitted garments can be used to visualize large scale data. News is harvested through RSS feeds, a...

At work In Canada I collected the views of teachers about the slow take-up of new technologies in education. Unfortunately these didn't ...

Light What? Yes, joggled voussoirs! Those interlocking marble blocks (in two contrasting colours) that recur time after time in Islamic arch...

Extract I did a phone interview with a TES journalist about social networking in education. Apparently, in commenting on the english space ...

Crop dance I am dance for two good reasons. The first is that the book Web 2.0 Learning and Social Particpation is finished ( Dr Joolz has ...

Winner It's won a string of awards already and Somers Town is a great film. Shane Meadows always seems to come up with a new take on ma...

Clear Originally uploaded by De Seven Free . There’s a whole lot of work to do on creating a taxonomy of graffiti tags. Recently I’ve been t...

I went to pay my last respects to Tinsley Towers last week and somehow managed to leave my camera at home! But not to worry, there are s...

they knock yer back I've just been writing about music-sharing for the Web 2.0 book. I wrote this. 'Legal file-sharing can be used i...

Born to be wild One of the attractions of music file-sharing is that the user can select the specific track wanted, rather than the whole bu...

Twenty two and three six four days We’ve had a bumper crop of good SATs stories this year, starting off with this one about a student picki...