By rob
Last December I had the privilege of presenting some notions around the ‘Bebo Boomer’ at the Online Information Conference, the largest information professional conference in the world. I’ve got around to publishing this crammed 20 minutes of ideas, where I wanted to see if business and public service organisations were prepared to harness the […]

Cross-posted at edu.blogs.comÂ
Will must have finally ended up with some spare time hunting around YouTube this morning to find this. University researcher Johnny Chung Lee has taken a £34.25 Wiimote, some old ballpoint pens and some infrared buttons you could find in your Physics department to create a system that can turn any surface into […]

Last year I wrote a series of posts about musical arranging, one of which attempted to outline the various possibilities involved. One of them was incorporating accompaniment styles from a culture different to that of the melody.
Had the option of embedding video been around at the time, I’d have encouraged you to listen to what […]

The Asus EeePC is a tiny, open source and highly affordable wireless laptop computer, no bigger than a paperback, which could open new possibilities for learning in Scottish classrooms.
Andrew Brown, one of Learning and Teaching Scotland new technologies team, has already blogged about the potential of the wee EeePC, and here takes us on a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Enthusiasts of dance and martial arts might enjoy this. After watching it, I felt even more wooden than I usually do.