Geography and all that Jazz

Was very interested in this post on Ewan McIntosh's EDUBLOGS blog , while looking for something else as it goes. The post is about BECTa's research on the use of WEB 2.0 technologies in education (and of course my interest is from the geographical angle.) Charles Crook, one of the people behind the research has been trying to get in touch with me for a good few weeks now to ask me about my use of the technologies, but something has always conspired to keep us apart. I'll try again after Easter (if you're reading this Charles, that's a promise) to try to add my two pennorth... There are plenty of interesting snippets of information in this posting. This was interesting for my media presentation at SAGT: what media do students have access to ? Access and opportunity Their first main research area revealed extensive access and opportunity to digital media. In order, from 100% down to about 10%, young people have access to: TV Mobile phone with camera Digital camera ...

Just packing stuff ready to head over to Guildford tomorrow for GA Conference. Got a lot to cram in the car. Listening again to REM at Royal Albert Hall from last week, and was reminded of this rather fine concert from my "youth"... 31 May 1989 - National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England support: Blue Aeroplanes set: Pop Song 89 / Exhuming Mccarthy / Welcome To The Occupation / Turn You Inside-Out / Wolves, Lower / Orange Crush / Fall On Me / Feeling Gravitys Pull / Swan Swan H / World Leader Pretend / Finest Worksong / Get Up / Pretty Persuasion / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) encore 1: Stand / Sitting Still / King Of Birds / You Are The Everything encore 2: Harpers / Summertime / Begin The Begin / Perfect Circle / Dark Globe / After Hours Also doing a bit of planning for new projects. Made a difficult decision today, not to apply for a wonderful opportunity at the University of Exeter: Ted Wragg Research Fe...