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Going to spend a bit of time looking at the stuff about lighting in the production section.
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Useful mapping tool for getting some sort of prediction of 3G coverage at a location, based on the experiences of people who chose to download a BBC app onto their Android phones.
Unsurprisingly, the data tends to cover built-up areas and main transport routes, so if you're trying to find out what you're coverage will be like on a field trip to Buachaille Etive Mor you might be disappointed
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Google Maps mash-up of a round of Mornington Crescent. Lovely to hear Humph's voice again as Ross Noble gets introduced to this arcane and labyrinthine game of skill.
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Video hosted by @ruskin147 remembering the Domesday Project of the mid 80's.
I clearly remember when our school bought this system. I think I used it once.
Funny how it looks dated but heralds the development of many forms of computing recognisable today (mice, optical storage, digital mapping, digital imaging, crowd sourcing etc)
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A snippet of audio from R4's Today programme with 2 interviewees discussing whether Twitter has a future or not. One says yes, the other no.
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@ruskin147's only gone and done a radio series on the history of social networking for the BBC.
Listen here.
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Opinion piece from the BBC (originally a Sunday AM POV slot) about an inspirational art teacher.
Helen and I have been trying to get to grips with an article by Jean Lave that partly talks about how learning is a social process of forming an identity within a community of practice. She discusses what makes a "great" teacher and says:
"Teachers are probably recognized as "great" when they are intensely involved in communities of practice in which their [the students'] identities are changing with respect to (other) learners through their interdependent activities." (1996: p158)
I've been reading this BBC article in the light of that.
Lave, J (1996) Teaching, as Learning, in Practice, Mind, Culture and Activity, 3:3, pp149-164
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These were the days when the curriculum was a creative guideline rather than a straightjacket and she regularly got her pupils top marks by teaching art as something dynamic, subversive and relevant to all of our lives.
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In short she was the adult we yearned to become; confident, colourful, rebellious.
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Example of storytelling using slideshow, music and voiceover, recounting the story of Mary Anning, famous for discovering many fossils in the early 1800's.
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Great for showing the scale of objects or locations in different contexts.
Last week I was debating my wife about how deep the Marianas Trench was (really!). Now I know that if measured out horizontally it would stretch from Gosforth to Birtley. I would have thought it was further but then I started thinking how long it would take to walk that and trying to imagine the weight of water at the bottom of the trench.
Loads of applications for classroom/project work and for infographics.
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BBC article on why social networking tools can available in the wild could be useful in building relationships in business. A lot of what is said could be applied to workplace learning using soc networking too.
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