Police are to be given live access to London's congestion charge cameras - allowing them to track all vehicles entering and leaving the zone.reports BBC news Anti-terror officers will be exempted from parts of the Data Protection Act to allow them to see the date, time and location ...

Weblogg-ed » Why is it so Hard for Educators to Focus on Their Own Learning? Will is writing about teachers who just can’t quite grasp what blogging could really do for their own practice. This is where I came in One of the main reasons for setting up The ...

Introducing 'Blog Friends', a new application on Facebook which fills an apparently simple yet imporant niche. This is what it does: Track blog posts by your Facebook friends—on topics that interest you Showcase those posts on your Facebook profile Watch your friends grow your blog readership for you in returnIt's ...

Crowdsourcing does fantasy football - with a real club.My Football Club Own the club,pick the teamIT'S NOT A GAMEThis is going to be interesting. There are almost enough people registered already, so if you want to own part of an English league football club you'd better hurry. The organised crowd ...

All the module guides are due for revision, so the team has spent the last two days deep in the mysteries of university documents. At the same time I've been having a kitchen fitted. Luckily its a great team, as calls to Fife, Newry, Stoke and Bridgend have paused for drilling and sawing. The kitchen is almost completed, and so are the first batch of guides.

The interface between blogs and Facebook is throwing up interesting dilemmas. There are various ways to import blog posts, so that they show up on a user profile, application or minifeed within Facebook. But there is no RSS back out again. So whilst it may be desirable to have blogs ...

Inspired by John's published image on Flickr, I challenged one of my pupils to have a go...

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On behalf of PajamaNati0n VE,  just over two hours ago, Ricardo Del Rio was on Venezuela morning TV talking about the PajamaNation lifestyle.Since he got home the phone hasn't stopped ringing with over 50 new people in Venezuela registering on the site already.  ...

Samantha Murphy asks on Facebook MyQuestions how can a musician earn a living in the digital age, in conjunction with having just decided that "Free is the way to go" and making all the tracks on her album available for free download. I'm trying to synthesise this situation facing musical ...

Engineers without Fears responds to Andy’s post about creative thought and chimed quite nicely with my own thoughts about reading. And another thing: more on social creativityI listen to others perform & I also read their work (reading is a paradoxically private and social activity) Reading often feels like the ...

OK - I think this blog has probably run its course ... I have a new blog over at http://asdfriendly.org/. The URL for it is http://asdfriendly.org/blog/ultramum/. RSS feeds at the very bottom of the blog page :-)See you all there

John @ Sandaig Primary » FacebookJohn is on to something - Facebook seems exclusive rather than inclusive, closed rather than open. I am happy to vist but I would not want to live there. I’ve been moaning on to Andy about how I just didn’t see that Facebook was much use to ...

Escape from Cubicle Nation asks Are there any rules for social/business networking? We're talking about Facebook, MySpace and Linkedin here.Unless you have been hiding under a rock, as a person who deals with the business of networking on the internet, you are aware that Linkedin, Facebook and MySpace ...

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At present, this "new" curriculum seems all fur coat and no knickers. The curriculum is dictated from the top down - and the next major step for the 11-14 year olds who are the targets of this "revolution" is GCSE exams. Without adequate preparation, the route to exam success may be tough. Unless the GCSE syllabus and forms of assessment change in time, it doesn't seem very likely that either teachers or students will be inspired by a truly personalised curriculum. Since coursework has been reduced for some GCSE exams, personalisation seems to have slipped further down the assessment agenda. As indicated later in the article, this is only half a revolution unless the tests are reviewed. I'm not too sure that half a revolution will amount to very much.

Michael Eavis , the dairy farmer who runs Glastonbury music festival, blames the policy of selling all tickets online for the ageing of his audience this year.Here's the Metro version of the newsGlastonbury 'too middle-aged'This year's Glasto turned into a mud bathMissed out on a Glasto ticket this year? Well, ...

This BBC report on Gordon Brown’s focus for secondary education explains…England’s secondary curriculum is being overhauled to “focus on getting the basics right”, the government says.”Subjects such as personal finance and cookery are likely to be included - plus languages like Mandarin and Urdu.Anne Kiem, a commentator from the Institute of Financial Services School of [...]

Its incredible that as motorists enter one of the most beautiful parts of the country, they will be faced with a giant postcard showing a picture of beautiful countryside! There has been a very lively discussion on the local BBC North East Wales web site.


I've signed my first e-petition

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Stop the construction of the 'Postcard to Wales' lottery funded art project to be constructed adjacent to Garden City/Queensferry, Deeside Wales. (...more)

Here's a great prospect for increasing economic activity in an area of the UK outside of London and the South East. A fast car ferry service between North Devon and South Wales. One of my earliest memories is of being taken onboard the paddle steamer between Cardiff docks and ...

Andy blogged My Blog Story today and it set me off on a bit of a wander through my blogging history. I didn’t want to do a straight post about the how and why of my blog. I did that quite recently anyway. Instead I decided trawl back through my ...