Cory Doctorow posted this on his blog today

Watching Back

Little Brother

Howard Rheingold posted this video to YouTube

“Inexpensive digital cameras, laptop editing, and network distribution have detonated an explosion of vernacular video, from YouTube to Open Courseware. This is a broad look at the ways video vernaculars are changing pop culture — and a hint of changes to come in education.”

Just read a great post on the Consolarium blog about how Mrs Bullivant, a teacher in Stirling, Scotland, and her class of P.6 children are using a game on the Wii in the classroom. Check it out here.

 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/studies_and_observations/89041931/ 

This morning I finished reading Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing - a remarkable, beautifully written explanation and call to participation of a new world on our doorsteps byAdam Greenfield. I’ve just read on Adam’s blog that he will be in Madrid at VISUALIZAR’08: DATABASE CITY Go and see him if you can. 

The Handheld Learning conference took place in London this week and although we weren’t able to go, I discovered via their Twitter tweets that it was possible to follow a lot of the presentations through a “live” blog hosted at Cover It Live. As it was a blog format, “readers” could ask questions and add comments. It was the next best thing to being there. 

The UrbanLabs page is being continuously updated with media from the event and links for future collaboration – keep up to date here

One Minute Catalan has recieved some very good press in Catalonia, from both El Punt and vilaweb. Click here for El Punt pdf and here for Vilaweb 
Read what Mark Pentleton of Radio Lingua Network has to say about the coverage here

The virtuallingua extras webpage is now live. We have created this site so that the students of virtuallingua can have easy access to real material according to their level of English. The site takes advantage of all the great material out there on the web to give interesting, real language content to learners. Check it out here

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