Puzzling away
What's the connection between Alan Turing, Albert Einstein and Lewis Caroll? Puzzling times. I'm thinking puzzles, modern and old and the fascination people have with them. There's a geekiness to puzzles, akin to train spotting. But somehow, puzzles are part of most of our media experiences.
www.cut-the-knot.org
One way to get to know new music is to merge media. I combine Amazon customer reviews and 'customers who bought this also bought', cross-referencing myspace, before buying in old-fashioned shops.
I still thumb through dusty plastic cases in Record Collector - Sheffield's best music shop. (When I was 12, I'd spend Saturday mornings sifting slowly through vinyl). RC provide commentaries in tiny handwriting on price tags to help me whilst I meander in their lovely, scruffy shop.
Teachers and fellow digital designers at a science workshop at the London Science Centre.
Aim of the day was to inspire science teachers with new teaching resources, so was trialling Science Supremo. To avoid mis-conceptions, classroom-based games need a snappy genre name. Answers on a postcard...
Angela McFarlane talking at the Handheld Learning Conference about the use of mobiles and handheld devices in learning, drawing from the good and the bad pilot mobile projects, in what is still an emerging field.
And she did it from Oslo, her voice booming from the ceiling. Technology, brilliant, isn't it?
What's the connection between Alan Turing, Albert Einstein and Lewis Caroll? Puzzling times. I'm thinking puzzles, modern and old and the fascination people have with them. There's a geekiness to puzzles, akin to train spotting. But somehow, puzzles are part of most of our media experiences.www.cut-the-knot.org
posted by DS at Friday, October 27, 2006
One way to get to know new music is to merge media. I combine Amazon customer reviews and 'customers who bought this also bought', cross-referencing myspace, before buying in old-fashioned shops. I still thumb through dusty plastic cases in Record Collector - Sheffield's best music shop. (When I was 12, I'd spend Saturday mornings sifting slowly through vinyl). RC provide commentaries in tiny handwriting on price tags to help me whilst I meander in their lovely, scruffy shop.
posted by DS at Saturday, October 21, 2006
Teachers and fellow digital designers at a science workshop at the London Science Centre. Aim of the day was to inspire science teachers with new teaching resources, so was trialling Science Supremo. To avoid mis-conceptions, classroom-based games need a snappy genre name. Answers on a postcard...
posted by DS at Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Angela McFarlane talking at the Handheld Learning Conference about the use of mobiles and handheld devices in learning, drawing from the good and the bad pilot mobile projects, in what is still an emerging field. And she did it from Oslo, her voice booming from the ceiling. Technology, brilliant, isn't it?
posted by DS at Thursday, October 12, 2006