As Chris Vallance so neatly puts it: Oh the irony, the irony. The most emailed story on BBC News Online is this
Free Rice – online edugaming for goodness sake.
Free Rice is simple, doesn’t require you to login and does three good things: Improves English vocab; Is Fun (in a computery addictive sort of way); Helps with world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. It’s a game based on how good your vocab is. Every time you get a question right …
Cory Doctorow, how to blog and the completeness of unfinished work.
At the end of last month I was sitting in a fab old building in Amsterdam listening to Cory Doctorow talk about how to blog. A couple of things he said lodged firmly in my mind: he told us to think of a blog post as a piece of jigsaw puzzle when you don’t have …
B:cen launches Youtube Channel.
Three films which set out how diversity networks are supporting active citizens in Birmingham are the launch videos for the Youtube Channel for the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network. The diversity networks were the subject of quite a strong appeal from the Bishop of Birmingham – who argued on the Grassroots Channel that they should be …