Adam kicks off a roundup of a superb event in Aberdeenshire to get its teachers (and students) motivated through new technologies, including some interesting world-breaking uses of Glow. Tim Rylands, one of the keynote presenters, gives his own take and some of the background of his long-term involvement with the Authority. Martin provides more coverage […]

The piece featured in today’s lunchtime Guitar Group rehearsal featured a short, slow introduction followed by a longer and much more upbeat section. Pupils had been encouraged to relax in the holidays and to refrain from practice in the hope of returning refreshed. So I wasn’t too disappointed to hear that the intro was a […]

Two New Zealand teachers show me how they have created a Second Life universe in which their students can work, learn and play. View below, or on the Connected Live video site.

Edu Twits is a pretty quick and dirty test of creating a no-code-mashup in the style of Non-Programistan and an exploration of how far you can get creating a useful tool without really reading the manual.
I am not suggesting Edu Twits is all that useful, but I can image how we could use this in […]

Gaming technology offers many new ways in to getting young people engaged with history, geography, language… Musselburgh Grammar School’s PE department has seen that there could be promise in getting young people fit through their lunchtime Wii sessions. Unfortunately, it’s only for S1 and S2 students. Quite how Mr Bray’s going to get in is […]

In a recent edition of The Material World on Radio 4 there was a fascinating discussion on how the brain processes sound. Presented by the mercurial Quentin ‘For me science isn’t a subject, it’s a perspective’ Cooper the guests - Jan Schnupp from the University of Oxford and Sophie Scott from the Institute of Cognitive […]