Gordon McKinlay has been thinking about how we are going to work with the ‘Glow Groups’, small online communities in the national intranet. Jimmy Wales, at this week’s Online Information Conference, also gets us thinking about building communities from his experience as Founder of Wikipedia, and maybe offers some ideas as to how these Glow […]

Aware that stories which support one’s existing beliefs leap off the page, while others remain comparatively static, I was nevertheless heartened to see the quote in this story from a blog I discovered today. The blog is an offshoot of a magnificent website put together by Simon Ager.
Cross-posted to Alan Coady’s Musical Blog

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).

Cross-posted to Alan Coady’s Musical Blog
A little over a year ago I made a vow to try to learn Polish. Apart from the stated reason and the fact that it would be interesting, I hoped it might be helpful in school which, I’m pleased to say it has on one or two occasions. Unfortunately, I […]

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 […]

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 […]

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).

Cross-posted to Alan Coady’s Musical Blog
While revisiting V. S. Ramachandran’s 4th 2003 Reith Lecture on synaesthesia, I was struck by the term synaestheticmetaphor. This was raised as one of four possible causes for this neurological phenomenon – which affects 1 in 200.
Artists of all sorts, whose currency is metaphor, constitute 1 in 8 of famous […]

Over on the MFLE blog we see that this languages project to support Modern Languages teachers in Scotland has won a special mention in the UK’s eLearning Awards. I was lucky enough to be invited down to Thursday’s awards night as Development Officer of the site, along with Annelie Carmichael, the site’s Content Editor form […]

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