I have just heard a wonderful song by Emmanuel Jal who I have been a supporter and fan of since I saw his wonderful TED Talk “The Music Of A War Child”. The video is here: The song was written as part of Jal’s campaign to stop the outbreak of another civil war in his [...]
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I have updated my personal all-time favourite list of TED Talks (which now includes 3 TEDx Talks). This is a very personal list and no doubt your own list would be very different. These though are the talks that have moved me, educated me and generally widened my horizons or maybe made me see the [...]
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I was really excited by this video. Dean Shareski, the speaker, is actually a “friend” on Facebook and I count him as a part of my Personal Learning Network (PLN). This is an impressive talk and one worthy of the high level of content and delivery of the TED talks that I have uploaded and [...]
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It is that time of year again. The presents are given and the wrapping paper which takes you ages to do is undone in no time and the remains litter the floor. For many years, as a Primary (elementary) teacher, I would start the New Year at school asking the children to “reflect” on their [...]
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I am a great fan of the Open Culture site. They keep coming out with little gems of discovery from Youtube and other sources. Well I think I may have found one of my own. Having said “of my own” it has been watched by 373,568 people (or a few people a lot of times!!) [...]
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Yesterday I watched two videos about the realities of living in a world that has been transformed by the web. The first was a brilliant documentary made a couple of years ago called “Us Now”. This documentary challenged the way that we live, the way we interact with each other, the way our businesses are [...]
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Because of the wonders of the Diigo bookmarking site I am able to save articles and posts that I read online as I go along. This year has been a really good one for learning. I have made 283 bookmarks which lie in my Diigo Library. As we are nearing the end of 2010 [...]
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I watched a television programme on BBC iPlayer yesterday. It was about the actress Kara Tointon who has recently won the (in Britain) famous dancing competition “Strictly Come Dancing“. Now I have some connection with this young lady in that (I am told) she went to a school as a child that I taught in. [...]
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As with reading I don’t know the point at which I learnt that I could write. By writing I do not mean writing my name or the words c-a-t as cat. I mean that I made a remarkable discovery. I could put my pen or pencil to paper and with the letters I formed (most [...]
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My very first blog post “Hello World” was published exactly one year ago today. Since that very hesitant beginning I have done 215 Posts (this will be the 216th) on 3 Pages with 11 Categories. I can still remember the very first time that I set out on what I have called “my learning journey”. [...]
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