I Still Believe in 121
I have been suggesting that 2012 would be being the year of ‘digital text’ in whatever format or guise it might be. I did not, and could not, have known about Apple’s pending iBook revolution?! Possibly but only where there …
Key Stage 3 Science with Quest
Tom Cole presented his four room Key Stage 3 Science game for Quest. I can not wait to play it, but I know Tom is very keen to add a little polish to the game before it is release. I …
Shoeless Learning
Stephen Heppell @stephenheppell threw out a comment yesterday during his keynote advocating ‘Shoeless Learning.’ On his website Stephen highlights that many Scandinavia children learn with their shoes off. In many schools worldwide shoeless learning has taken off, despite a lot …
Three Men and a Big IF
Another opportunity to discuss Interactive Fiction with teachers, educators and education types was grasped with both hands, as I meet up again with iO’s Andy Goff. Together with Alex Warren and Tom Cole (@ehesynapseuk), we gave a three part introduction …
Catalyst Apps
Last night I have a conversation with a very positive and enthused colleague. We both have an interest in disruptive technologies and most certainly top of the list are apps. I have explored and used my iPhone for learning and teaching …
Ask me Question, If you like?
Having stumbleupon Soundcloudslabs – here is my Take Questions page. I wonder is #AskGove would have been shocked by the tone of the response had they used this webware tool? [qr_code_display] http://kristianstill.takesquestions.com/
Mash it up – Storywheel
Mashups are everywhere but storywheel, is a little bit too cool to ignore. Maybe I am biased. Maybe its because it combines two of my most favourite web apps? Instagram and Soundcloud. I love instagram. I have used it to …
You Can a Learn a lot by just Watching
This week I was able to watch both students and staff play my almost complete, first section of Lil Red. So here is what I have learnt; “We would never bother writing text abbreviations in capitals. It’s a waste of …