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  1. Summer's lease
    → blethers | Thu Jul 02 22:44:26 +0100 2009

    I'll not be blethering much over the next week or so - off to Tuscany with Mr B, as well as the Edublogger family. It's been so hot here this week that I'm looking forward to having an air-conditioned villa and the pool at the foot of the garden, The Blethers possessing neither of these amenities. I'm also looking forward to revisiting the area where we had our last foreign holiday en famille, before our weans turned into families themselves, if you get me; we stayed in this part of Tuscany during a World Cup in which Italy did rather well, and ended up in a neighbouring apartment whose inhabitants had rented a telly specially. This, you will understand, was not my choice, but was done in the spirit of bonding.

    Anyway, it's arrivederci from me for now, though you might catch a blogette from my phone if there's a signal (I'm not holding my breath; it's very rural) Should I be taking "Summer's Lease" for holiday reading? Probably not. I seem to remember it cast doubts on the stability of the water supply to a holiday villa, and might induce gloom and despondency.

    And that would never do. Ciao!

  2. Reading Recommendations
    → Teaching and Learning and Learning | Thu Jul 02 20:03:35 +0100 2009

    Hooray!  The holidays are here!  Six blissful weeks of pottering and walking and cooking and reading lie ahead of me.  Off to the bookshop this weekend to pick up my summer reading.  Any recommendations?  Posted in Uncategorized

  3. Another one bites the dust.
    → Jim Henderson' Blog | Thu Jul 02 18:41:54 +0100 2009

    Kodak has announced last week that after 74 years, they are discontinuing the last of their Kodachrome films, K64. K64 was one of my main choices for film in the 80’s. I later moved onto Fuji Velvia 50 because of its punchy saturation. I suppose the demise of K64 film was inevitable given most folk have [...]

  4. Do you like taking photos? This competition may be just your thing.
    → Enquire - young people's blog | Thu Jul 02 13:15:13 +0100 2009

    Do you like taking photos? See Me have a competition that may be perfect for you!  See Me is the national campaign to stop stigma against people with mental health issues. So what is stigma?  See Me say that its about ‘being avoided, ignored, talked about, laughed at or bullied’ all because your mental health isn’t great. [...]

  5. links for 2009-07-02
    → So Much to learn...so little time | Thu Jul 02 12:04:40 +0100 2009

    null RT @katiebarrowman: Celebrate 10 years of Moonfruit and win a MacBook Pro http://bit.ly/96bxC #moonfruit [from http://twitter.com/adamsutcliffe/statuses/2420971261] (tags: tweecious Facebook Twitter StumbleUpon Digg Google MacbookPro Website Reddit)

  6. The right to fail?
    → EdCompBlog | Thu Jul 02 11:16:16 +0100 2009

    Should pupils be allowed to fail? Is there a trend to always encourage children - to place happiness as the highest ideal? Should schools always seek to protect children from all negative consequences?

    Partly this post is prompted by this very old news report that I filed and intended to write about but somehow, I never got around to it - Pupils 'distressed over spelling':
    "A primary school has stopped carrying out spelling tests because children find them distressing..."
    It also is related to some of the things I've been thinking about in relation to assessment.

    Questions:
    What do you think? Should the chief aim of schools be to make children happy? Is there value in failing? Is it possible to recognise achievement in some without de-motivating others who can't achieve to the same standard?

  7. Basic ICT skills training
    → SQA Computing blog | Thu Jul 02 11:04:49 +0100 2009

    A new government report calls for basic computing skills training to be provided to all adults in England. More.

  8. Unsere Aufsätze
    → Dornoch Academy - Lola Rennt | Thu Jul 02 08:57:57 +0100 2009

    Über die lezten Wochen haben wir zum Abschluss unseres Filmprojektes unsere ERV-Aufsätze zum Film Lola rennt geschrieben und verbessert. Die Aufsätze sind unter “Comments” angehängt.  Authored by Mrs Felber. Hosted by Edublogs.

  9. Horizon Report 2009
    → Virtual Teacher - Lesson Plans, Free Stuff, Ideas, Tutorials | Thu Jul 02 07:57:21 +0100 2009

    Some good ideas here regarding web 2 and 3 technologies, mobile technologies etc.

  10. Cool Stuff
    → Virtual Teacher - Lesson Plans, Free Stuff, Ideas, Tutorials | Thu Jul 02 07:55:22 +0100 2009

    Some cool stuff this week at http://sketchcast.com/
    which is like a kind of Youtube for those who want to sketch and upload their creations. Another useful site is http://www.cueprompter.com/ which gives the illusion of a tele-prompter on your computer screen.
    One final site is http://www.soungle.com/ which is a search engine for sound clips. If you want the sound of a car engine, a pig, cow or anything else, just search in soungle.