Great news for technology, great news for languages, great news for Scotland: Coffee Break Spanish producers Mark Pentleton and Kara, have won a European Award for Languages.
More news on this over at the MFLE, and a great video from Mark and Kara that tells the whole story and gives highlights of the rest of Tuesday’s […]

Cross-posted to Alan Coady’s Musical Blog
Did you know that today, November 21, is designated as No Music Day? At least it is in the ears of Bill Drummond, who describes the origin of the idea as follows:
“St Cecilia is the patron saint of music. I have no idea why this is and I am not […]

French photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand, who took those breathtaking aerial shots of our planet, has been undertaking a long-term large-scale project interviewing some of the 6 billion souls on this planet about their cultures, hopes and fears.
Fascinating stuff, both from a global citizenship side as well as a French, Modern Foreign Languages reading and viewing […]

I began to write a short comment on John Connell’s Blog in answer to his wondering why, when one’s native tongue can be absorbed without homework, other subjects feel the need for it. The example given was maths.
Even if we regard maths as a second language, the native tongue is already thousands of hours ahead […]

Pictures coming through from Friday night’s CIPR Magazine Awards, revealing that LTS’s flagship Connected Magazine has won a Silver Award in the Best Magazine or Newspaper category. Congrats to the print magazine team at LTS and our partners at White Light Media. I wonder what the future holds as Connected Live develops the magazine 24/7 […]

Cross-posted to Alan Coady’s Musical Blog
I had compiled a short post yesterday describing Music teachers’ frustrations at not being able to access YouTube in school as it hosts countless audio-visual illustrations of musical concepts. As evidence, I embedded such a video, but I’ve since felt obliged to delete the post. Let me explain why.
The concept […]

In this video snippet see how some principals and headteachers-to-be are learning the skills on the job.Â
You can view this video below or by visiting the Connected Live Blip.TV Channel.

I first came across the idea of a self-tuning guitar on Dr James Frankel’s commendable blog on music technology in education. Initially, I was quite sceptical about the idea of $2,199 on a self-tuning guitar or $900 to have the technology fitted to your own guitar.
My own feeling is that it would be better simply […]

The Argentinean newspaper Clarín has compiled an archive of guitar composers. Having selected a composer/player you’ll be led to a page where, in addition to audio samples, there are free downloads of high quality pdf scores (descargar partitura).

Every year the Scottish Learning Festival welcomes visitors from across the world. What is in it for guests from outside Scotland?
You can see the video below or on the Blip.TV Channel.