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Down under Jackie’s inaugral lecture was a real celebration of her achievements. I look forward to picking up the paper: Emergent Literacy ...

Church door Teaching a group who are all on wireless laptops is a strange affair. Yesterday I was trying to explain some ideas on a powerpoi...

Strange house... I examined a thesis the other week in which the candidate (who was looking at innovations in e-learning) made the distincti...

Boal I was talking to Richard about the Kris Gutierrez paper in RRQ that describes teatro do oprimido (Boal’s theatre of the oppressed ). H...

we electric At last week’s NAAE conference I introduced the Glogster’s glogs as an example of a new Web 2.0 development. Now the term glog i...

Moroccana104 I read an interesting review by Doug Black on Coolhunting of a book called "Letter by Letter", by designer/calligraph...

drinks tray graffito The Daft Punk song Technologic captures the spirit of what Colin and Michele call the new ethos stuff in digital produc...

space city A short while back I promised Sarah I'd do a favourite three list of sources on time, space and new technology. So here’s ho...

stairwell I scaled these stairs yesterday afternoon to put the finishing touches to a book chapter on blogging. Somehow, whilst doing this,...

bright I’ve been getting pretty addicted to using Google Maps on my handheld just to see where I am in satellite view (kind of sad, but kind...

new lits (side view) I borrowed the idea of nested social/communicative spaces from David Barton who talks about nested and chained liter...

disk Well there are virtual spaces and there are virtual spaces. Some are exciting, others rather trivial and then there’s the noxious Miss ...

Black Thinking about nested spaces and the networked individual made me go back to Bauman's observations about mobiles (in Liquid Love ...

bathroom wall Are we learning to live in the interstices, between here and nearly hear, between now and soon? Thinking in this post about h...

floater The Byron Review ’s Final Report has just been released (27th March) and the full text can be downloaded here . The report recogn...

Deep cut We know that Web 2.0 sites are partly defined by their dependence on user content. In this respect YouTube is no different. But as ...

tow path Usually I take a positive stance on new communications technology. I think of new channels of communication as being inherently neu...

I listened to a celebration of comic poet, Hovis Presley over lunch and my first thought was to reach for a YouTube clip which is exactly wh...

sorry I was here yesterday for the first seminar Theorising the benefits of new technology for youth: Controversies of learning and develop...

This was sent by a friend who said I liked the unusual...well, it's an old Sesame Street thing but it's a very visual representation...