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

In musiman.com (music & animation - or rather the animation of music by Stephen Malinowski) the animations offer a kind of graphical music score using coloured bar graphics.
Pitch is represented along the y-axis, duration along the x-axis and the various voices are shown depicted in different colours. Why is this useful? I feel that it […]

Tim Geddes from Glaitness primary school in Kirkwall has highlighted the most recent TV Glaitness video podcast from his school.
The Primary 7 pupils at the school aim to produce one every month. They work together as a team employing a huge range of skills - News Investigators, Script Editors, Presenters, Cameramen, Interviewers, Sound Editors, Film Editors and […]

If you allowed your pupils to rove freely round the classroom, how difficult would it be to keep track of where they were? Imagine that at the end of a few seconds, they were converted into identical, featureless statues. How many of them could you name?
A recent article in the New Scientist Latest Headlines Blog […]

There appear to me to be three types of reading – or should I say layout:

printed, linear text
printed text - largely linear but featuring distracting insets, “emboldened extracts…” and photos/diagrams bearing descriptive information – frequently found in Sunday supplement features and New Scientist articles. Enticing as they are these distractions are to narrative flow what […]

Following on from the videos of cup- and dice-stacking on Ollie’s blog, may I suggest you try this fun little clip? It takes about a minute to get going but stay with it as, by the end, it is extremely dexterous.

The keynotes for the Scottish Learning Festival have been made available now in a version that will play on your video iPod or MP4 player.
It’s a great way to revisit the rich resource that each keynote address provides. You can right-click (or ctrl-click on a Mac) each of the links below to download these to […]

Cross-posted at edu.blogs.com

Thanks to the kind people at Core-Ed the video and slides of my last ’season’ of talks on how all of us can lead education and technology change in our schools, Local Authorities and organisations have been put online for all to view. There’s also a Google Video without the slides.

Every time I […]

Gigajam, available to all Scottish teachers and learners through Glow, provides exciting new ways to learn how to play musical instruments. See the video for the highlights of this new technology.

Sergio Della Sala’s one minute summing up of his talk at the Scottish Learning Festival.
You can listen to more detail about Della Sala’s research in LTS’s new Learning About Learning video-based website.