Archive for the 'general ramblings' Category

Personal thoughts on the UKCCIS summit

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Yesterday Sue Cranmer and myself went to the UKCCIS summit. Futurelab is listed as one of the council’s members and it’s obviously an area we are interested in. What follows are just a few of the thoughts I had about the event.

International Children’s Digital Library

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Children are now are just one click away from the children’s international digital library.

Mobile Learning in Learning and Skills

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Good News from the LSC?
This is not a headline anyone in the Learning and Skills sector would have expected following the LSC Capital project difficulties, which have left several colleges facing financial difficulties, and the Train 2 Gain funding shortfall which has strained the solvency of many work based learning providers.
But perhaps the LSC [...]

Thoughts on Digra 2009

Monday, September 14th, 2009

In the first week of September I attended Digra 2009 (for those that don’t know Digra stands for Digital Games Research Association). This was fascinating as I am not really a gamer. In fact, according to Richard Bartle (one of the keynote speakers) this means that I shouldn’t write about games at all. However, on [...]